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maloney

/məlˈoʊni/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
mal-oney
IPA
/məlˈoʊni/
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Irish.

Countable; Uncountable

name

An unincorporated community in Lee County, Kentucky, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh (“descendant of the devotee of Sunday”), from maol (“devotee”) and Domhnach (“Sunday”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh

Usage

Inflected Forms

Maloneys (plural) Mallonee (alternative) Moloney (alternative) Molony (alternative) Muldowney (alternative)

Phrases

Maloneys Beach

Homonyms

moloney

Rhymes With

tony sony toni phony hermione stony bologna bony macaroni coney mahoney pepperoni

Questions

How do you pronounce maloney?
The recorded pronunciation is /məlˈoʊni/.
What does maloney mean?
A surname from Irish.
Where does maloney come from?
It is traced to Irish.

How to pronounce maloney

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