loseby
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Etymology
Habitational surname from the village of Lowesby, in Leicestershire, from Old English hlōse (“pigsty”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement, village”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: hlōse, býr