goldthwaite
/ɡˈoʊldθwˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A small city, the county seat of Mills County, Texas, United States, named after George (Joe) Goldthwaite. Understood to be the geographical centre of Texas.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
Perhaps a habitational surname from a minor place in South Yorkshire, named with Old Norse gil (“ravine, gully”) + þveit (“paddock, meadow”), even though the modern surname is more associated with Essex than Yorkshire.