Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

courtney

/ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: court-ney
IPA: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old French.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A place in the United States:

Countable; Uncountable

name

A place in the United States:

Countable; Uncountable

name

A place in the United States:

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate, Bishop of Exeter, his brother there, With many moe confederates are in arms."
""One girl ten, another one eight. Courtney and Ashley. I'd have named 'em something else. Sara and Diane, Patti and Jill, something like that. I don't even understand girls."

Etymology

Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: Curtenus

Usage

Inflected Forms

Courtneys (plural) Cotney (alternative) Kourtney (alternative) Courteney (alternative)

Rhymes With

fortney

Questions

How do you pronounce courtney?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/.
What does courtney mean?: A surname from Old French.
Where does courtney come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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