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cobh

/kəʊv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
cobh
IPA
/kəʊv/
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Irish an Cóbh, itself a Gaelicisation of English cove. Part of a wave of renamings in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Synonyms

Queenstown

Homonyms

cove

Questions

How do you pronounce cobh?
The recorded pronunciation is /kəʊv/.
What does cobh mean?
A town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.
Where does cobh come from?
It is traced to Irish.

How to pronounce cobh

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