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kempston

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables
kemp-ston
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A suburban town and civil parish with a town council in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0347).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Brythonic *kam (“crooked, bent”) (from Proto-Celtic *kambos), in reference to a sharp bend of the River Ouse, + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Kempstons (plural)

Phrases

Kempston Hardwick Kempston Rural

Questions

What does kempston mean?
A suburban town and civil parish with a town council in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0347).
Where does kempston come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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