Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

silla

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: sil-la
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.

Example Sentences

"The roughly foot-tall replica crown given to Mr. Trump is a reproduction of one of South Korea’s national treasures. It is a copy of one from the Silla Kingdom, a dynasty that gradually expanded over hundreds of years, starting in the first century B.C., and eventually conquered rival kingdoms to dominate the Korean Peninsula."

Etymology

From the Revised Romanization or McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 신라(新羅) (Silla).

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: ^신라(新羅)

Inflected Forms

Sinla (alternative) Scilla (alternative)

Derived Forms

Sillan

Frequently Paired Words

Baekje Goguryeo

Rhymes With

villa serial killer manila vanilla gorilla godzilla priscilla flotilla anguilla chinchilla scylla maxilla

Questions

What does silla mean?: An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.
Where does silla come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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