trevor
/ˈtɹɛvɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
name
A surname.
name
A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
Example Sentences
- "He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -"
- "The designer of the study, Trevor Dupuy, was a decorated US Army colonel, a noted military historian and a founding faculty member of Harvard University’s Defense Studies Program."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹɛvɚ/
- British English: /ˈtɹɛvə/
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Trefor
Trevorrow