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eckle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
eck-le
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An icicle.

noun

The crest of a cock.

noun

A woodpecker.

verb

To aim; intend; design.

Intransitive verb

Etymology

From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-West Germanic *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ikil, ġicel, *jikil, *jekulaz, *h₁eyH-

Usage

Inflected Forms

eckles (plural) eccle (alternative) eckles (present, singular) eckling (participle, present) eckled (participle, past) eckled (past)

Questions

What does eckle mean?
An icicle.
Where does eckle come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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