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shalott

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables
shalott
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Legendary place in Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott and elsewhere, identified with Guildford by Malory.

Etymology

The variation between Ast- and Asc- suggest that it comes from Welsh ystol, alternate form Welsh ysgol, both meaning ladder (and derived from Latin scala). The suffix is diminutive, probably meaning flight of stairs (since she lived in a tower). Thus lady of the staircase.

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Word Breakdown

Questions

What does shalott mean?
Legendary place in Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott and elsewhere, identified with Guildford by Malory.
Where does shalott come from?
It is traced to Welsh.

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