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"PARSEES" is a plural of: parsee. |
Date "PARSEES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
"PARSEES" is a common misspelling or typo for: paresis. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Parsees or Ghebers. Fire-worshippers. We use the word for Persian refugees driven out of their country by the persecutions of the Mussulmans. They now inhabit various parts of India. (The word means People of Pars or Fars- i.e. Persia.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PARSEES |
| English words defined with "PARSEES": Yezdegerdian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PARSEES": Marriage Knot. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PARSEES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PARSEES" is used about 3 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 (plural) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 |
parsees | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"PARSEES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parkses, Parsis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asperse, pareses, serapes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: aspers, erases, parses, passee, passer, peases, perses, prases, repass, sarees, serape, spares, sparse, spears, speers, sprees. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, apses, arses, asper, eases, erase, erses, pares, parse, pases, passe, pears, pease, peers, perea, perse, prase, prees, presa, prese, press, rapes, rases, rasps, reaps, saree, sears, seeps, seers, seres, spaes, spare, spars, spear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: asperges, aspersed, asperser, asperses, escapers, pleasers, presages, relapses, repassed, repasses, reshapes, respaces, respades, respeaks, speakers, spearers, trapeses. | |
+2 letters: airspeeds, aphereses, apheresis, appeasers, appressed, asperates, aspersers, bespreads, espaliers, lamperses, paperless, passenger, passerine, pederasts, perhapses, permeases, persuades, pessaries, pharisees, pleasures, prepastes, presagers, preseason, preshapes, pretastes, prewashes, proteases, rapeseeds, relapsers, repassage, rephrases, resamples, reshapers, respreads, separates, spareness, spreaders, supersafe, supersale, vesperals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 52 53 45 45 53 |
| 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)01010000 01000001 01010010 01010011 01000101 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R S E E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 0053 0045 0045 0053 |
| 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)50355253393953 |
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