louisa
/luːˈiːzə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.
name
A ghost town in California.
name
A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Gay, West Virginia.
name
A town, the county seat of Louisa County, Virginia, United States.
Example Sentences
- "But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!"
- "On being told that Mrs. Bounderby was there, she replied, at cross-purposes, that she had never called him by that name since he married Louisa; that pending her choice of an objectionable name, she had called him J; and that she could not at present depart from that regulation, not being yet provided with a permanent substitute."
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱlew-