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mckinney

/məkˈɪni/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English

Syllables
mck-in-ney
IPA
/məkˈɪni/
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

name

A city, the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States.

Etymology

* As a Scottish and Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Cionaodha, Mac Cionaoith. * Also as an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Coinnigh (“son of Coinneach”), also treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth. Both senses above are derived from Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ. Sometimes Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ

Inflected Forms

McKinnie (alternative)

Homonyms

mckinnie

Rhymes With

mini guinea skinny minnie winnie ginny vinny vinnie finney kinney pliny tinny

Questions

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

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