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hammerton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
ham-mer-ton
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The villages of Green Hammerton and Kirk Hammerton in North Yorkshire, England.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Recorded as Hambretone in the Domesday Book, 1086. Perhaps from Old English hamor (“hammer-sedge”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

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Usage

Inflected Forms

Hammertons (plural)

Questions

What does hammerton mean?
The villages of Green Hammerton and Kirk Hammerton in North Yorkshire, England.
Where does hammerton come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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