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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweetland

/swˈitlənd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

Syllables
sweet-land
IPA
/swˈitlənd/
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

name

A community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

name

A ghost town in Nevada County, California, United States.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English swēte (“sweet”) + land (“land”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Sweetlands (plural) Swetland (alternative)

Questions

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

How to pronounce sweetland

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  2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/swˈitlənd/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
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