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pennines

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables
pen-nines
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.

noun

plural of pennine

Etymology

Usually connected to the Italian Apennines, originally borrowed from Latin Apenninus by Latin scribes and subsequently losing its initial A by rebracketing or aphesis. Alternatively, possibly derived directly from a Celtic language; by surface analysis, Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”) plus -ine.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does pennines mean?
A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.
Where does pennines come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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