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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

towneley

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English

Syllables
towne-ley
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place near Burnley, in Lancashire, from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to town + -ley (“lea”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Towneleys (plural) Townley (alternative)

Questions

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

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