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wroughton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English

Syllables
wroughton
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: hverfr, tūn

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

Inflected Forms

Wroughtons (plural)

Questions

What does wroughton mean?
A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
Where does wroughton come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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