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stickley

/stˈɪkli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English

Syllables
stick-ley
IPA
/stˈɪkli/
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English stiġel (“stile; sharp point”), sticol (“high, steep, stickle”) or from a personal name *Sticca + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stile + -ley (“lea”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Stickleys (plural)

Rhymes With

quickly prickly sickly thickly bickley slickly brickley mickley

Questions

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

How to pronounce stickley

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