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cropley

/kɹˈɑpli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
crop-ley
IPA
/kɹˈɑpli/
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Etymology

Two possible origins: * English habitational surname from a minor place in Suffolk, from Old English cropp (“swelling, mound”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to crop + -ley (“lea”). * Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kroppli, a variant of Kropf.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Cropleys (plural)

Rhymes With

copley

Questions

How do you pronounce cropley?
The recorded pronunciation is /kɹˈɑpli/.
What does cropley mean?
A surname.
Where does cropley come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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