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glendenning

/ɡlˈɛndɪnɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables
glen-den-ning
IPA
/ɡlˈɛndɪnɪŋ/
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

name

A suburb of Sydney in the Blacktown council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Dumfries, Scotland, perhaps from Scottish Gaelic gleann (“mountain valley, glen”) + dùn (“fortress”) + fionn (“white”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Glendennings (plural) Clendenning (alternative) Glendening (alternative)

Homonyms

glendinning

Rhymes With

glendinning

Questions

How do you pronounce glendenning?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɡlˈɛndɪnɪŋ/.
What does glendenning mean?
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Where does glendenning come from?
It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

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