leonarda
/lɛnˈɑɹdə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name of rare usage.
Example Sentences
- "A daughter was born on Dec. 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dlugosh of Ord who has been named Leonarda Susan."
- "Leonarda Foss is scared, and she doesn’t care who knows it. […] She especially prizes a note from an 80-year-old woman in Pennsylvania named Leonarda who had despaired of knowing anyone else with that name before reading a news account of Leonarda’s fight against cancer."
- "Her father, the impoverished last of an old Boston line, named her Leonarda in honor of the great da Vinci, and she had grown up in an outsize, disintegrating old house on Cobb’s Hill."
Etymology
From Leonard + -a.