Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

littleton

/lˈɪtəltən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables: lit-tle-ton
IPA: /lˈɪtəltən/

9

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

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A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Countable; Uncountable

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A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Countable; Uncountable

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Example Sentences

"In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library."

Etymology

From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: lȳtel

Usage

Inflected Forms

Littletons (plural)

Phrases

High Littleton Littleton and Harestock South Littleton

Questions

How do you pronounce littleton?: The recorded pronunciation is /lˈɪtəltən/.
What does littleton mean?: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Where does littleton come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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