FAGAN

  

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FAGAN

Specialty Definition: FAGAN

DomainDefinition

Biographical Satire

FAGAN, the Hebrew benefactor of Oliver Twist, whose name did not fit his religion. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: FAGAN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Fearless Fagan (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FAGAN

"FAGAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.05% of the time. "FAGAN" is used about 105 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)99.05%10431,955
Noun (singular)0.95%1339,140
                    Total100.00%105N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: FAGAN

The following table summarizes the usage of "FAGAN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FaganLast name6,0002,012
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FAGAN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fagan

39

alex fagan

3

fagan donald

17

sean fagan

3

fagan chevrolet

13

fagan john

3

fagan michael

12

fagan paul

3

fagan garth

8

dr fagan

3

donald fagan song

6

alex fagan jr

3

fagan peter

6

curtis fagan

2

fagan mary

6

garth fagan dance

2

brian fagan

5

david fagan

2

fagan myron

5

adam fagan

2

fagan finder

4

construction fagan

2

ed fagan

4

fagan robert william

2

fagan michael queen

4

bernie fagan

2

fagan william

4

fagan jessica

2

fagan inspection

4

discography fagan scott

2

company fagan

4

door fagan

2

grant fagan

4

fagan tom

2

fagan kate

3

fagan inc

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: FAGAN

Misspellings

"FAGAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Affan, Agan, Cagan, Fagel, Fagen, faggan, Faggiani, fagin, fagun, Faha, Falana, fatan, Feggans, Fegman, Fga, Fidani, Figan, Figeac, Figini, Figino, Fraughan, Fugen, Gagan, Nagan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FAGAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fanga.

Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-n"

-1 letter: anga, fang.

-2 letters: aga, ana, fag, fan, gan, nag.

-3 letters: aa, ag, an, fa, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-n"
 

+1 letter: afghan, fanega, fangas.

 

+2 letters: afghani, afghans, fanegas, flagman.

 

+3 letters: afghanis, fandango, fanegada, flagrant, fragrant, langlauf.

 

+4 letters: affraying, catfacing, fandangos, fanegadas, flagrance, flagrancy, fragrance, fragrancy, franglais, langlaufs, megafauna, safariing, seafaring, suffragan, wayfaring.

 

+5 letters: affiancing, antifungal, catfacings, fantasying, faradising, faradizing, flagellant, flagrances, flagrantly, fragmental, fragrances, fragrantly, frangipane, frangipani, langlaufer, magnifical, magnificat, megafaunae, megafaunal, megafaunas, ragamuffin, seafarings, shandygaff, suffragans.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FAGAN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 47 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    --.    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#71 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0047 0041 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4035413548

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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