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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

groby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
gro-by
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5207).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse gróf (“pit, hollow, gully”) + býr (“farmstead”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Grobys (plural)

Questions

What does groby mean?
A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5207).
Where does groby come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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