Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

urawa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

Syllables: urawa
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture in Japan. Now it is a ward of Saitama city.

name

A surname from Japanese.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 浦和 (Urawa).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 浦和

Questions

What does urawa mean?: A former city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture in Japan. Now it is a ward of Saitama city.
Where does urawa come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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