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witham

/wˈɪθəm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English

Syllables
with-am
IPA
/wˈɪθəm/
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A river, the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

Withams (plural) Whittome (alternative) Withem (alternative)

Derived Forms

withamite

Phrases

South Witham Witham Friary Witham on the Hill

Homonyms

whitham

Rhymes With

whitham

Questions

How do you pronounce witham?
The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɪθəm/.
What does witham mean?
A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).
Where does witham come from?
From *wiht (“bend”) + hām (“homestead”).

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