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"AUKS" is a plural of: auk. |
Date "AUKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | An order of birds including the shorebirds, auks and gulls and related forms. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AUKS |
| English words defined with "AUKS": Alcidae, auklet ♦ Brachypteres ♦ diving petrel ♦ family Alcidae ♦ guillemot ♦ Pygropodes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AUKS": gulls ♦ shorebirds. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "AUKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "AUKS" is used about 23 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) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | 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 |
auks | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AUKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | maage-vadefugle (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steltlopers en meeuwvogels (gulls, shorebirds, waders), steltlopers en meeuwen (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | oiseaux de plage, oiseaux de marais, charadriiformes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Watvoegel (gulls, shorebirds, waders), Moewenvoegel (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελόβια πτηνά (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | caradriiformi (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auksay limícolas e gaivotas (gulls, shorebirds, waders). (various references) alkfåglar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Charadriiformes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AUKS": jauks, padauks, wauks. (additional references) | |
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"AUKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacs, aak, Abuko, Aduku, Aeuc, Aiakos, aiuk, aks, Aksu, aku, Akue, anuk, auc, Auca, auch, auki, aukk, auky, aus, euk, iucds, jauk, oks, quk, Raucs, Uahs, uarks, uas, uask, Ukj, Uks, Uksc, Yayuk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: skua. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ask, auk, kas, sau, ska. | |
-2 letters: as, ka, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ankus, jauks, kagus, skuas, ukase, wauks. | |
+2 letters: amucks, ankush, baulks, caulks, haikus, kauris, knaurs, krauts, kulaks, kurtas, kuvasz, oakums, outask, punkas, quacks, quakes, quarks, saluki, squawk, squeak, sukkah, taluks, ukases, umiaks, unmask. | |
+3 letters: adzukis, ankuses, auklets, backups, buckras, bucksaw, chabuks, chukars, chukkas, funkias, gagakus, judokas, kabukis, kahunas, kaliums, kashrut, kauries, kiaughs, korunas, kurbash, kurgans, makeups, mamluks, markups, muskrat, outasks, outtask, padauks, padouks, punkahs, quakers, quokkas, rumakis, sackbut, sackful, salukis, sambuke, sawbuck, shakeup, squawks, squeaks, squeaky, stackup, subtask, sukkahs, sunback, takeups, talukas, tanukis, umiacks, unasked, uncakes, unmakes, unmasks, unpacks, unspeak, unstack, untacks, uptakes, waesuck, walkups. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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