jacobson
/ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbsən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An English surname transferred from the given name.
Example Sentences
- "Today, the question is how bluntly the case, known as Jacobson v. Massachusetts, might be wielded to justify curbing individual liberties without caveat."
- "“It’s well known that the lowest income consumer is really struggling with inflation, but from a purely economic standpoint, it is the higher quintiles of earners that do the most spending,” Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson, global investment strategist at Hartford Funds, told CNN."
Etymology
From Jacob + -son. From Middle English Jacobson. Medieval English patronymic surname "son of Jacob". In the U.S. adopted by immigrants with similar family names, such as Swedish Jakobsson, Danish and Norwegian Jacobsen (or Jakobsen).