Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

todmorden

/ˈtɒdmədən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: tod-mor-den
IPA: /ˈtɒdmədən/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England. Until 1889 it was in both Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Etymology

From Old English Totta (“Totta's”) + mære (“border”) + dene (“valley”). Folk etymologies have related it to German Tod (“death”) + French Mort (“death”) + Old English dene (“valley”); or otherwise deriving from Old English tod (“fox”) + mor (“moor”) + dene (“valley”).

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Synonyms

Tod

Questions

How do you pronounce todmorden?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɒdmədən/.
What does todmorden mean?: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England. Until 1889 it was in both Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Where does todmorden come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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