Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scharnhorst

/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)nhɔː(ɹ)st/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables: scharn-horst
IPA: /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)nhɔː(ɹ)st/

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Several locations in northern Germany.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from German, borne by a famous 19th-century Prussian general and military theoreticist.

Countable; Uncountable

name

Several German ships named after the general, including a Kriegsmarine capital ship which participated in WWII.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from scharn (“dirty, damp”) + horst (“wooded hill”), from Old Saxon *skarn + hurst, from Proto-Germanic *skarną + *hursti.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Scharnhorst, *skarn, *skarną

Usage

Inflected Forms

Scharnhorsts (plural)

Phrases

Scharnhorst effect

Questions

How do you pronounce scharnhorst?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)nhɔː(ɹ)st/.
What does scharnhorst mean?: Several locations in northern Germany.
Where does scharnhorst come from?: It is traced to German.

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