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duxford

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables
dux-ford
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4745).

name

A hamlet in Hinton Waldrist parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England, originally in Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3699).

Etymology

From Old English personal name *Ducc, in the genitive singular *Ducces + worþ (“enclosure”), thus "Duxwurth". The worth element was later reanalysed as forth, leading to "Duxforth". This later became the ford of its present form.

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Word Breakdown

Questions

What does duxford mean?
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4745).
Where does duxford come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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