Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

huntingdon

/ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables
hunt-ing-don
IPA
/ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).

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

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