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Date "ALGY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ALGY |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ALGY |
| Specialty definitions using "ALGY": symbolic mathematics. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ALGY" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkmen (debt). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Algy! Algy! (The Importance of Being Earnest; writing credit: Oliver Parker; Oscar Wilde) Algy, you're always talking nonsense. (The Importance of Being Earnest; writing credit: Oliver Parker; Oscar Wilde) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Adventures of Algy (1925) Lord and Lady Algy (1919) The Honorable Algy (1916) Algy on the Force (1913) How Algy Captured a Wild Man (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "ALGY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "ALGY" is used about 30 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) | 86.67% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
algy | 24 |
algy dance | 6 |
algy uniform | 6 |
algy costume | 4 |
algy.com tapir | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ALGY": coxalgy, otalgy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: agly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-y" | |
-1 letter: gal, gay, lag, lay. | |
-2 letters: ag, al, ay, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-y" | |
+1 letter: agley, gaily, gally, gayal, gayly, glady, glary, glazy, gyral. | |
+2 letters: agedly, argyle, argyll, cagily, flaggy, gadfly, gainly, galaxy, galley, galyac, galyak, gamely, gamily, gangly, gayals, gladly, glairy, glassy, gleamy, glycan, gnarly, grayly, jangly, laying, legacy, logway, otalgy, plaguy, sagely, slaggy, slangy, tangly, waggly. | |
+3 letters: agilely, agility, aglycon, allergy, allying, analogy, angerly, angrily, apology, argyles, argylls, baggily, claying, coxalgy, dayglow, daylong, eagerly, flaying, fugally, gallery, galleys, gallfly, galyacs, galyaks, gassily, gaudily, gauntly, gauzily, gawkily, ghastly, glycans, grandly, gravely, graylag, greatly, greylag, guayule, gunplay, gyrally, haylage, ladybug, langley, largely, lazying, legally, logways, mangily, myalgia, myalgic, nylghai, nylghau, plaguey, playing, regally, slaying, spangly, stagily, syzygal, vagally, vaguely, yawling, yealing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 47 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. --. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01000111 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L G Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0047 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35464159 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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