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hammersley

/hˈæmɚsli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
ham-mer-s-ley
IPA
/hˈæmɚsli/
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Hammersleys (plural) Hamersley (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce hammersley?
The recorded pronunciation is /hˈæmɚsli/.
What does hammersley mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does hammersley come from?
It is traced to Old English.

How to pronounce hammersley

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