Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tokugawa

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: toku-gawa
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Japanese.

name

Any of a family of shoguns that ruled Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 徳川 (Tokugawa).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 徳川

Inflected Forms

Tokugawas (plural)

Questions

What does tokugawa mean?: A surname from Japanese.
Where does tokugawa come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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