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grennan

/ɡɹˈɛnən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables
gren-nan
IPA
/ɡɹˈɛnən/
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Irish.

Etymology

* As an English surname of Norman origin, from Old French grenon (“mustache”), from Vulgar Latin *granonem (“facial hair, mustache”), from Frankish *granu, from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, beard-hair, hair-tips, mustache”). * As an Irish surname, variant of Greenan.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Grennans (plural)

Homonyms

grenon

Rhymes With

brennan lennon lenin mclennan glennon kennan drennan brennen kennon hennen lenon drennen

Questions

How do you pronounce grennan?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɡɹˈɛnən/.
What does grennan mean?
A surname from Irish.
Where does grennan come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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