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wetherby

/wˈɛθɚbi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English

Syllables
wether-by
IPA
/wˈɛθɚbi/
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old Norse veðr (“wether (sheep)”) + býr (“farmstead”).

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

Wetherbys (plural) Weatherbee (alternative) Weatherby (alternative) Weathersby (alternative) Wetherbee (alternative) Witherbee (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce wetherby?
The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɛθɚbi/.
What does wetherby mean?
A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).
Where does wetherby come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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