Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tignon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tignon
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An article of woman's headgear consisting of a piece of material tied in individual ways.

Etymology

From French tignon, obsolete synonym of chignon and cognate with tignasse, teigne.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: tignon

Inflected Forms

tignons (plural)

Questions

What does tignon mean?: An article of woman's headgear consisting of a piece of material tied in individual ways.
Where does tignon come from?: It is traced to French.

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