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lumley

/lˈʌmli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables
lum-ley
IPA
/lˈʌmli/
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A hamlet near Hermitage, Southbourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7506).

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Great Lumley and Lumley Thicks, in County Durham, from Old English lumm (“pool”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Lumleys (plural)

Phrases

Great Lumley Little Lumley Lumley Thicks

Frequently Paired Words

Great Lumley Little Lumley Lumley Thicks

Rhymes With

comely glumly brumley plumley chumley crumley rumley

Questions

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

How to pronounce lumley

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