isabella
/ɪzəˈbɛlə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Hebrew.
name
A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
noun
A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "[C]an you ſo ſteed me, / As bring me to the ſight of Iſabella, / A Nouice of this place, and the faire Siſter / To her vnhappie brother Claudio?"
- "A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth."
- "If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]"
- "The late Queen Victoria drove behind horses of a peculiar shade which nothing but Isabella color would describe. Now it is to appear in furs for the élite."
- "Mr. and Mrs. Moes left after the reception for New York and other places, the bride wearing Burgundy cloth with a chic grey hat and veil and Isabella fox furs."