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desborough

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

Syllables
des-bor-ough
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering borough (OS grid ref SP8083).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Deor + -s- + burg (“fortress, stronghold”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Desboroughs (plural) Disbrow (alternative) Disbrowe (alternative)

Questions

What does desborough mean?
A town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering borough (OS grid ref SP8083).
Where does desborough come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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