Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hernani

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables: her-nani
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A locality in the Armidale council area and the Clarence Valley council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

name

A town and municipality of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.

Example Sentences

"Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk"
"A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]"
"I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […]"

Etymology

From the town of Hernani in Spain.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hernanis (plural)

Questions

What does hernani mean?: A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
Where does hernani come from?: From the town of Hernani in Spain.

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