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Definition: WADY |
WADYNoun1. A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season. |
Date "WADY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
"WADY" is a common misspelling or typo for: Wad, Wade, Wads, Wary, Wavy, Waxy, Way. |
Crosswords: WADY |
| English words defined with "WADY": Wadies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WADY": AEnon ♦ Dophkah ♦ Gibeah of Judah ♦ Jabesh-Gilead ♦ Kinah ♦ Mattanah, Michmash ♦ Neiel, Nezib ♦ Parah, Paran, Pharpar ♦ Red Sea, Passage of ♦ Salim, Sela-hammahlekoth, Sela-hammah-lekoth, Sorek ♦ Zanoah, Zareth-shahar, Zin ♦ -zin. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The entrance gate to Wady El 'Ain.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "WADY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WADY" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
postawy wady | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WADY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vadi (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wadi (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vadi (arroyo, quady, wadi), kausiuoma (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | wadi (wadi), oued (wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wady (arroyo, quady, wadi), Wadi (arroyo, quady, wadi), Qualy (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Wady (arroyo, quady, wadi), Wadi (arroyo, quady, wadi), Quady (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uadi (arroyo, quady, wadi), fiumara (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adyway uedes (arroyo, quady, wadi), uádi (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) "wadi","wady", "quady". (various references) wadi (arroyo, quady, wadi), arroyo (arroyo, quady, wadi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-w-y" | |
-1 letter: daw, day, wad, way, yaw. | |
-2 letters: ad, aw, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-w-y" | |
+1 letter: bawdy, waddy, yawed. | |
+2 letters: bawdry, drawly, midway, swayed, tawdry, waddly, whydah, yawled, yawned, yawped. | |
+3 letters: bawdily, baywood, dayglow, daywork, doorway, drywall, endways, hayward, headway, mayweed, meadowy, midways, roadway, shadowy, sideway, skidway, skyward, tideway, washday, waylaid, wayside, wayward, weekday, whydahs, windway, workday. | |
+4 letters: avowedly, baywoods, bendways, bewrayed, cityward, cowardly, dayglows, dayworks, doorways, downplay, driveway, drywalls, edgeways, fadeaway, floodway, foldaway, foodways, guideway, hawkeyed, haywards, headways, hideaway, inwardly, lawyered, mayweeds, nowadays, pandowdy, playdown, roadways, sideways, skidways, skywards, slideway, speedway, subwayed, tawdrily, tideways, towardly, underway, unswayed, upwardly, waddying, walleyed, wardenry, washdays, waysides, weekdays, welladay, widthway, willyard, windways, wizardly, wizardry, wordplay, workaday, workdays, yardwand, yardwork. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 44 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)01010111 01000001 01000100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A D Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 0044 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)57353859 |
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