Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

marne

/mɑɹn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English

Syllables
marne
IPA
/mɑɹn/
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in Iowa.

Etymology

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.

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How do you pronounce marne?
The recorded pronunciation is /mɑɹn/.
What does marne mean?
A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.
Where does marne come from?
It is traced to French.

How to pronounce marne

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