Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mashpee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: mash-pee
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

noun

A member of a Native American people, a subgroup of the Wampanoag people.

Etymology

An anglicization of the Massachusett words mass ("great") + nippe ("water"), synthesized as "great pond".

Inflected Forms

Mashpees (plural)

Synonyms

Cummaquid Mattachiest

Questions

What does mashpee mean?: A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Where does mashpee come from?: An anglicization of the Massachusett words mass ("great") + nippe ("water"), synthesized as "great pond".

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