thurrock
/ˈθʌɹək/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A unitary authority and borough of Essex, England.
Etymology
From Middle English thurrok, from Old English þurruc (“hold of a ship; bilge”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurruk, from Proto-Indo-European *terg-, *terǵ- (“to rub, wipe, clean, make holes”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian durk (“sewer, bilge-water, lowest part in the hold of a ship”), Middle Dutch durck, dorck (“the hold of a ship”) (Dutch durk, dork (“a spout-hole”)), Middle Low German dork (“keel room, the lowest part of a ship's hold”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐍉 (þairkō, “hole, eye (of a needle)”), Latin tergō, tergeō (“wipe, scour, clean”, verb), Old English þurh, þuruh (“through”). More at through, thorough.
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Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
thurrocks (plural)
thorrocke (alternative, obsolete)
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Frequently Paired Words
thurruck