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say it: EG-burt
egbert is a noun meaning "king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)". It carries one recorded sense.
king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for egbert come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.