ira
/ˈaɪɹə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.84 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
name
A male given name from Hebrew, mostly of American usage.
name
name
Example Sentences
- "Since you fund a nondeductible IRA with already-taxed dollars, you might figure you wouldn't pay any income taxes on the conversion. But you wouldn't just owe tax on the funds you're converting; you'd also have to take the pretax contributions and gains in all your non-Roth IRAs into account."
- "These were the liquefiable assets at hand: a drawerful of family jewelry, a 401(k), an IRA, and a one-bedroom condo purchased with inheritance money after her parents' passing."
- "In the September follow-up, those significant gains looked much more contingent. More than 80 percent of the potential emissions reductions from the I.R.A. would be lost, the report concluded, if the country continued to expand the electricity grid at only its recent pace of about 1 percent per year."
- "And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David."
- "So is Ira Gershwin something to do with the more famous George Gershwin? Caroline says. She was his wife, wasn't she? Jen says coming in with plates balanced on her arm. He was his brother, Mark says. It comes into his head how much Faye loved songs. He had quite forgotten how much. It does sound like a girl's name, though, doesn't it? Caroline is saying. There's no way I'd ever call a daughter that, Hannah says."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈaɪɹə/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.