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ffrench

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables
ffrench
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.

name

A surname: an English and Irish surname from the same source.

name

A surname; alternative letter-case form of ffrench.

Etymology

A variant of French: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare fforde, ffoulkes.

Questions

What does ffrench mean?
An Irish barony, originally from Castle ffrench in Galway.
Where does ffrench come from?
A variant of French: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare fforde, ffoulkes.

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