hight
/haɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "King Arthur's court was hight Camelot."
- "He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…]"
- "Childe Harold was he hight."
- "“Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”"
- "I hight Sir Galahad."
- "Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight."
Etymology
From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: highten, hātan, hēht