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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fisherman's family returning from early morning's fishing near Akers, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Privy in bayou. Akers, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. Akers, construction worker from Flint, Michigan now working at Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti. He lives in a tent with two other men at Edgewater Park. Edgewater Park normally closes on Labor Day. This year it will remain open through the winter. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "AKERS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.35% of the time. "AKERS" is used about 103 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) | 88.35% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Noun (plural) | 11.65% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AKERS" 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 |
| Akers | Last name | 11,000 | 1,085 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AKERS": Akers-douglas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AKERS": automakers, backbreakers, bakers, beakers, bedmakers, boilermakers, bookmakers, breakers, cabinetmakers, capmakers, caretakers, carmakers, coffeemakers, comakers, croakers, diemakers, doublespeakers, dressmakers, drugmakers, earthshakers, fakers, filmmakers, flakers, forsakers, glassmakers, groundbreakers, grubstakers, hatmakers, haymakers, heartbreakers, holidaymakers, homemakers, housebreakers, icebreakers, icemakers, jawbreakers, kayakers, kingmakers, lakers, lawbreakers, lawmakers, leakers, loudspeakers, makers, mapmakers, matchmakers, merrymakers, mistakers, moneymakers, moviemakers, muckrakers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AKERS": speakership, speakerships. (additional references) | |
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"AKERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acars, Acerra, ajers, Akary, Akber, Ankers, Kaars, Ukepra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asker, eskar, rakes, saker. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ares, arks, arse, ears, eras, kaes, keas, rake, rase, sake, sark, sear, sera. | |
-2 letters: are, ark, ars, ask, ear, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, ras, res, sae, sea, ser, ska. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arkose, askers, bakers, brakes, breaks, crakes, creaks, drakes, eskars, fakers, freaks, kaiser, kasher, kebars, lakers, makers, masker, rakees, rakers, resoak, sacker, sakers, screak, shaker, skater, slaker, soaker, strake, streak, takers, wakers, wreaks. | |
+2 letters: arabesk, arkoses, backers, balkers, bankers, barkers, beakers, berakes, calkers, cankers, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darkeys, darkies, darkles, debarks, dekares, demarks, embarks, fakeers, flakers, forsake, gawkers, hackers, hankers, harkens, hawkers, jackers, kaisers, karates, kashers, kauries, kerrias, krakens, kraters, lackers, larkers, leakers, lekvars, markers, markets, maskers, packers, parkers, presoak, quakers, rackers, rackets, rankers, rankest, rankles, remakes, remarks, repacks, reparks, reracks, resoaks, respeak, restack, retacks, retakes, rewakes, sackers, sarkier, screaks, screaky, seamark, shakers, shakier, sharked, sharker, skaters, skiwear, slacker, slakers, smacker, snakier, sneaker, soakers, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, speaker, stacker, stalker, starker, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, swanker, tackers, talkers, tankers, walkers, yakkers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4B 45 52 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)01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A K E R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004B 0045 0052 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)3545395253 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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