marla
/mˈɑɹlə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Hebrew.
noun
A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia.
Australian usage
noun
A unit of area used in the Indian subcontinent, of varying size, but roughly 250 square feet.
Example Sentences
- "Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property."
- "Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla, old plasticine with the colours all rolled together into brown."
- "As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear. Plasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs."