falkirk
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A town in Falkirk council area, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, originally in Stirlingshire.
name
A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, and previously a local government district in Central Region (1975–1996).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Faukirke, from Old English fāg (“multicoloured”) + ċiriċe (“church”), a calque of Middle Irish Eiglesbrec (literally “speckled church”), probably ultimately from Cumbric *eglēs (“church”) + Cumbric *vreith (“speckled”). The l is first attested in the 15th century, likely a hypercorrection by analogy with terms such as wall (Scots wa). Compare Medieval Latin Varia Capella (“Falkirk”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Faukirke, fāg, Eiglesbrec, *eglēs, *vreith