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"LEILA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a night". |
Date "LEILA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Leila va leili Samad va sami (1972) Kais wa leila (1960) Bint el shatie Leila (1959) Leila bint el agnia (1947) Ghadet el camelia Leila (1942) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Uniforms of the American Women's Voluntary Services, modeled by, from left to right: Leila Ernst, Betty Middendaf, Eleanor Chandler, Eve Whitney, Dorothy Temple, and B.J. Graham. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait group of Mrs. Frances (Folsom) Cleveland and the ladies of the Cabinet: Olive Harmon, Jane P. Francis, M.J. Carlisle, Agnes P. Olney, Nannie H. Wilson, Juliet K. Lamont, and Leila Herbert. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | In January 2000, two female authors, Leila Al-Othman and Alia Shuaib, were found guilty in two separate cases of writing "obscene" and "blasphemous" books. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LEILA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEILA" is used about 150 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 150 | 25,701 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LEILA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Leila | First name Female | 15,000 | 708 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "LEILA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a night". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "LEILA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Leela | Female | N/A | Leila |
| Lila | Female | N/A | Leila |
| Laila | Female | Arabic | Leila |
| Leila | Female | Arabic | N/A |
| Leilah | Female | Arabic | Leila |
| Lela | Female | Arabic | Leila |
| Laila | Female | English | Leila |
| Leila | Female | English | N/A |
| Leilah | Female | English | Leila |
| Lela | Female | English | Leila |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "LEILA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Лейла. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"LEILA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elika, Ellial, Elola, lalia, Latilla, Leala, leela, legila, leia, Leicas, leil, leilia, Leils, Leira, Leisl, Lelia, Lelio, Lelli, Leule, Leuluai, Liell, Liepa, liila, Zeila. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ileal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: ilea, leal. | |
-2 letters: ail, ale, all, ell, ill, lea, lei, lie. | |
-3 letters: ae, ai, al, el, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: alible, allied, allies, faille, labile, liable, lienal, lineal, mallei, taille, telial, villae, wallie. | |
+2 letters: agilely, ainsell, alienly, allelic, alveoli, axillae, ballies, braille, calicle, cedilla, challie, dallied, dallier, dallies, dialled, diallel, dialler, eluvial, failles, flailed, galilee, gallein, gallied, gallies, helical, icefall, ideally, illegal, lawlike, leakily, lexical, liberal, ligulae, likable, linable, literal, livable, lobelia, manille, micella, millage, pallier, perilla, pillage, pliable, rallied, rallier, rallies, ralline, sallied, sallier, sallies, tailles, tallied, tallier, tallies, tillage, vexilla, vialled, village, wallies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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