taplow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9182).
Etymology
From Old English *Tæppa + hlæw (“mound”), meaning "Tæppa's barrow." The personal name could be from the adjective top (“top, crest”) (from Proto-West Germanic *topp). See Taplow burial.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: *Tæppa, *topp