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thornycroft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables
thorny-croft
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified settlement, from Old English þorniġ (“thorny, full of thorns”) + croft (“croft, enclosed field”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Thornycrofts (plural) Thorneycroft (alternative)

Questions

What does thornycroft mean?
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where does thornycroft come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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