khlebnikov
/klˈɛbnɪkˌɑv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A transliteration of the Russian surname Хле́бников (Xlébnikov).
Example Sentences
- "Poets have been ill-fated in Russia ever since the Revolution: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin, among the two great poets of the Revolutionary era, were suicides; Viktor Khlebnikov starved to death during the Civil War; […]"
- "The ship's Russian captain, Vitaly Khlebnikov, told reporters that the boarding was "dangerous.""
- "Though born in New York, he was motivated by a passionate identification with Russia and its culture - he was known to his Russian readers as Pavel Khlebnikov."
- "Poet Oleg Khlebnikov has lived in the old writers' retreat north of the birch alley for 20 years, penning his verse on an oil cloth-covered wooden table on the veranda of a dacha he leases from the Literary Fund, a cultural heritage bureaucracy that inherited the enclave after the demise of the Soviet Union."
- "Dmitry Khlebnikov, a passenger seated in the 10th row, later told journalists at Sheremetyevo airport that he was only alive thanks to the crew."