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shackleton

/ʃˈækəltən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables
shack-le-ton
IPA
/ʃˈækəltən/
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.

Countable; Uncountable

name

Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

Inflected Forms

Shackletons (plural)

Derived Forms

Shackletonian

Questions

How do you pronounce shackleton?
The recorded pronunciation is /ʃˈækəltən/.
What does shackleton mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does shackleton come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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