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twentyman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
twen-ty-man
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English Twentiman, from twentiman, from twenti + man, commander of a levy of twenty or more men, and from later conflation of Twinterman with the number and/or surname. Equivalent to twenty + -man.

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Questions

What does twentyman mean?
A surname.
Where does twentyman come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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