Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mccurtain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English

Syllables
mc-cur-tain
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Irish.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town in Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Curtáin, variant of Mac Cruitín (“son of the hunchback”).

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Questions

What does mccurtain mean?
A surname from Irish.
Where does mccurtain come from?
It is traced to Irish.

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