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hanscombe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hanscombe
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Shillington, in Bedfordshire, from an unattested Old English personal name *Hān + -s- + camp (“open country”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Hanscombes (plural) Anscombe (alternative) Handscomb (alternative)

Questions

What does hanscombe mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does hanscombe come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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