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Sheba

/ˈʃiːbə/noun

Sheba is spelled S-H-E-B-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Sheba means “A flapper (daring young woman of the Jazz Age)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Sheba is Shebas.

How many letters and syllables are in Sheba?

Letters5: S-H-E-B-A
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Sheba?

Sheba appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Sheba?

  • /ˈʃiːbə/

Sheba has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Sheba.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Sheba

  • Shebas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Sheba mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    datedslangA flapper (daring young woman of the Jazz Age).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does Sheba come from?

From Biblical Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇāʾ).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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