jessica
/ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Hebrew.
Example Sentences
- "Lorenzo: In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont."
- "She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica. Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have."
- "Jessica. It was, she later thought, a name well suited to whitehaired ladies with bright blue eyes."
- "The first line of dialogue is from an off-screen Field Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), asking the team to stay in sight and “make NASA proud”."
Etymology
First used by William Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice in the early 17th century, probably from Hebrew יִסְכָּה (yiská, “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe version”), a proper name meaning "he will see/behold/look for", the 3ms imperfect form of a verb ultimately from the root ס־כ־ה (s-k-h), itself an alternative form of the root שׂ־כ־ה (ś-k-h), both of which mean "to see, behold, look for". * By folk etymology seen as an elaborate form of Jessie, from Jane.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: יִסְכָּה