rhea
/ˈɹiːə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America.
noun
Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.
name
A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.
name
The asteroid 577 Rhea.
name
A female given name from Ancient Greek in occasional use.
name
A surname.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Rhea, from Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa, “the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ῥέα, ৰিহা