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pontefract

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables
pon-te-fract
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4522).

Etymology

From Latin pons (“bridge”) + Latin fractus (“broken”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Mansfield-et-Pontefract Pontefract cake

Questions

What does pontefract mean?
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4522).
Where does pontefract come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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