WILTSHIRE

Date "WILTSHIRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Specialty Definition: WILTSHIRE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Wiltshire (2 syl.) is Wilton-shire, Wilton being a contraction of Wily-town (the town on the river Wily). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Wiltshire

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wiltshire is a large southern English county. It borders Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset (Formerly Avon), South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It also contains the unitary authority of Swindon. Wiltshire is a mostly rural landscape with large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland. A large part of the county is taken up by Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used mainly by farmers and the British Army. The county had a population of 564,000 in 1991 and a size of 858,931 acres (3475.97 sq km).

Towns and villages

Alderbury, Amesbury, Avebury
Bradford-on-Avon, Burbage
Calne, Castle Combe, Chippenham, Chisbury, Corsham, Cricklade
Devizes, Downton, Durrington
Holt, Hungerford
Lacock
Malmesbury, Manton, Marlborough, Marston, Marston Meysey, Marten, Melksham, Mere
Neston, North Tidworth
Odstock
Pewsey
Salisbury
Swindon
Tiddleywink, Trowbridge
Whaddon, Wilton, Wilton

A bridge over the river Avon at Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire
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Other places of interest

Avebury Cicle, neolithic stone circle
Barbury Castle
Bowood House
Castle Combe
Castle Hill, Mere
Chisbury Chapel
Cranborne Chase
Great Chalfield Manor
Kennet and Avon Canal
Lacock Abbey
Old Sarum, the former cathedral
Old Wardour Castle
Stonehenge
Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage railway
The Thames Path, a long distance footpath
Westwood Manor
Woodhenge
Wilton House
Wilton Windmill

External links

John Aubrey's The Natural History of Wiltshire

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wiltshire."

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Crosswords: WILTSHIRE

Specialty definitions using "WILTSHIRE": Ancalites ♦ Corngrate ♦ HORSE LADDER ♦ MOON RAKERS, Moon-rakers ♦ Sarsen Stones, Stones ♦ Wans Dyke, Warning Stone. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WILTSHIRE

Domain	Title
Books	English Parish Records: Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Oxford, & Worcestershire (reference) Potterne 1982-5: Animal Husbandry in Late Prehistoric Wiltshire (reference) The Harmony of Symbols: The Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure, Wiltshire (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology) (reference) Showmen of Wiltshire : we're only in business for fun (reference) West country; byway motoring in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and parts of Shropshire and Wiltshire (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: WILTSHIRE

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Photo Album: WILTSHIRE

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A Pair of Wirtembergs: : or the Little Wiltshire Dentist easing Faro's Little Daughter of the Tooth Ache. / Cruikshank del. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Usage Frequency: WILTSHIRE

"WILTSHIRE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WILTSHIRE" is used about 763 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%	763	9,001

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

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Name Usage Frequency: WILTSHIRE

The following table summarizes the usage of "WILTSHIRE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Wiltshire	Last name	1,000	10,688
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: WILTSHIRE

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "WILTSHIRE": wiltshire-based.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WILTSHIRE

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
wiltshire	398	house in wiltshire	6
england wiltshire	14	direct mail wiltshire	5
map wiltshire	11	business premises south wiltshire	5
south tourism wiltshire	10	commercial property south wiltshire	5
wiltshire tourism	9	police wiltshire	4
wiltshire hotel	9	swindon wiltshire	4
wiltshire knife	9	uk wiltshire	4
estate agent wiltshire	9	fireplace wiltshire	4
wiltshire bed breakfast	8	catering self wiltshire	4
hotel in wiltshire	8	kitchenware wiltshire	4
circle crop wiltshire	7	stephen wiltshire	4
wiltshire accommodation	7	new house in wiltshire	4
business development south wiltshire	6	photography wedding wiltshire	4
wiltshire college	6	swindon wiltshire accommodation	4
this wiltshire	6	farm in wiltshire	3
council county wiltshire	6	harris wiltshire	3
business advice south wiltshire	6	salisbury wiltshire	3
business south support wiltshire	6	whale wiltshire	3
business services south wiltshire	6	conference management wiltshire	3
agency dating wiltshire	6	accommodation in wiltshire	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: WILTSHIRE

Misspellings
	"WILTSHIRE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wallshire, Welthorpe, Wilshier, Wilsthorpe, Wiltcher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WILTSHIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: whirliest.
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-r-s-t-w"
	-1 letter: whirlies, whistler.
	-2 letters: siltier, slither, swither, whistle, whitier, whities, wiliest, wiriest, withers, withier, withies, writhes.
	-3 letters: hirsel, hirsle, lister, liters, lither, litres, relish, relist, swithe, theirs, thirls, tilers, twiers, twirls, whiles, whilst, whirls, whiter, whites, wilier, wisher, wither, withes, wriest, writes, writhe.
	-4 letters: heils, heirs, heist, herls, hilts, hires, islet, istle, ither, lehrs, lewis.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-r-s-t-w"
	+4 letters: weightlifters.
	+5 letters: praiseworthily.
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