jebediah
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name.
Example Sentences
- "See the interesting report of Jebediah Irish, Esq., on this subject, who has acquired more correct knowledge, by long experience and observation, having devoted more years of his life to the subject than perhaps any one of his cotemporaries."
Etymology
Apparently an alteration of Jedediah or Jedidiah, perhaps influenced by Obadiah. All early attestations are mistaken references to persons actually named Jedediah or Jedidiah.