sean
/ʃoːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Irish.
Example Sentences
- "Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards[…]"
- "They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Mam says she likes the names Kevin and Sean but Bridey says, Ah no, there's too many of them in Limerick. Jesus, Angela, if you stuck your head out of the door and called, Kevin or Sean, come in for your tea, you'd have half o' Limerick running to your door."
- "In some ways, it’s a pragmatic practice: Fox anchors such as Sean Hannity and, at one point, Tucker Carlson routinely attack Milley – and during the Trump years, there was also a reasonable expectation that the president would be talking to the hosts of those shows."
- "Jay-Z is doubling down on his denial that he ever raped a teenage girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs, saying that newly revealed inconsistencies in her story prove that her account is not credible."
- "But if you really insist she'll retell the unfortunate case of a man named Sean Doyle."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃoːn/
- British English: /ʃɔːn/