runkle
/ɹˈʌŋkəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Etymology
From Middle English runkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Cognate with Scots runkil (“wrinkle, crease”). Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a diminutive ( + -le) of Old Norse *hrunka, hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle”). The verb is from Middle English runklen (“to wrinkle”), from the noun. Compare also Old Swedish rynkia (whence Swedish rynka (“to wrinkle”)).