lara
/ˈlɑː.ɹə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee."
- ""If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ла́ра
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈlɑː.ɹə/