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fenway

/fˈɛnwˌeɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English

Syllables
fen-way
IPA
/fˈɛnwˌeɪ/
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Ellipsis of Fenway Park (“home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team”).

name

A neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Etymology

Named after The Fenway, a thoroughfare in Boston, from fen (“type of wetland”) + way. The road goes by the Back Bay Fens, a marshy public park.

Frequently Paired Words

Kenmore

Rhymes With

benway

Questions

How do you pronounce fenway?
The recorded pronunciation is /fˈɛnwˌeɪ/.
What does fenway mean?
Ellipsis of Fenway Park (“home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team”).
Where does fenway come from?
Named after The Fenway, a thoroughfare in Boston, from fen (“type of wetland”) + way. The road goes by the Back Bay Fens, a marshy public park.

How to pronounce fenway

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