zachary
/ˈzækəɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
7
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3
Syllables
6
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- "Unto whom I will giue for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Ioel, Abdias, and Ionas, Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharie, and Malachie, which is called also an Angel of the Lord."
- "Albeit in our late Reformation, some of good consideration have brought in Zachary, Malachy, Josias, &c. as better agreeing with our faith, but without contempt of countrey names (as I hope), which have both good and gracious significations,"
- ""Zachary!" Her lips smacked at the name. "That's not a...well,a...Jewish name, is it?" "Oh yes, Zechariah, my father was born in the U.S.S.R., in Podolsk, and my mother's family came from Russia also, a long time ago. I suppose it's Russian or something." "Russian? It doesn't sound Russian." "Well I don't know exactly; my mother liked Zachary Scott in the pictures.""
- "Zachary Block chats with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen about their new show, Portlandia, which airs on IFC, Fridays at 10:30."
Etymology
From clipped forms of Zachariah and Zacharias + -y, from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (Zəḵaryā, “Yahweh has remembered”) via Latin Zacharias and Koine Greek Ζαχαρίας (Zakharías). As an American city, named after the farmer Darel Zachary who sold the land for a local depot on the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1880s. Doublet of Zach, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, Zakariya, and Jakariya.
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