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"ALES" is a plural of: ale. |
"ALES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help". |
Date "ALES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ALES | English | Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland | Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences |
ALES | French | Aide aux lépreux Emmaüs-Suisse | Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences |
ALES | German | Aussätzigenhilfe Emmaus Schweiz | Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences |
ALES | Italian | Aiuto ai Lebbrosi Emmaus Svizzera | Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ALES |
| Specialty definitions using "ALES": Notarica. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ALES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (augury, omen, portent, precursor, presage), Romanian (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mikolás Ales (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The consistently high volume of imports from the United Kingdom and Ireland over the last three years is partly due to the introduction of English and Irish ales on tap and the popularity of themed Irish pub chains such as Bridie O’Reillys and O’Malley’s. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Slovak Republic | On November 9, Parliament passed an amendment to the Penal Code criminalizing the "denial or belittling of the Holocaust." In June the President made a complaint to the General Prosecutor against Ales Kratky, a writer for the daily Novy Cas. (references) |
Belarus | In autumn 2000, the authorities refused to grant permission to a painter, Ales Pushkin, who had earlier been convicted of malicious hooliganism because of a 1999 protest-performance critical of Lukashenka, to travel to Poland to exhibit his works. (references) | |
Belarus | On January 16, police arrested Ales Abramovich, Alesia Yasiuk, Nadzieya Grachukha, and Dmitry and Mikhail Kuznitsov who had picketed for 30 minutes in Borisov; they were charged with defamation for verbal abuse of the President's honor and dignity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | For example, on September 1, 8 days before the election, Ales Belyatsky, one of the cochairmen of the independent domestic observation network, was detained for approximately seven hours. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ALES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "ALES" is used about 108 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) | 72.22% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.78% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ALES" 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 |
| Ales | Last name | 200 | 30,826 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ALES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ALES." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Alexius | Male | Ancient Greek (Latinized) | N/A |
| Ales | Male | Czech | Alexej |
| Alexej | Male | Czech | Alexius |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| France | Ales Groupe |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ALES": church-ales. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ales | 55 | ales group | 3 |
ales hanak | 31 | ales croxley | 3 |
ales hemsky | 7 | inn ales | 3 |
ales hrdlicka | 5 | ales de digital procesamiento se | 3 |
ales beer | 5 | ales company telemarketing teles | 3 |
ales france | 5 | ales ambient denton facial genetics occlusion orthodontia orthopedic y | 3 |
hales ales | 5 | ales mussolini | 2 |
rogue ales | 4 | ales d des ecole mine | 2 |
ales hanek | 4 | ales de se transito | 2 |
pyramid ales | 4 | ales pa | 2 |
ales stenar | 4 | ales belgian | 2 |
ales groupe | 4 | ales dog flying | 2 |
john ales | 4 | ales valenta.cz | 2 |
hotel ales | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ALES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | ALES, Aide aux lépreux Emmaüs-Suisse. (various references) | |
German | Aussätzigenhilfe Emmaus Schweiz (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland), ALES (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland). (various references) | |
Italian | ALES (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland), Aiuto ai Lebbrosi Emmaus Svizzera (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alesay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ALES": amygdales, australes, bales, biennales, bubales, chorales, dales, downscales, empales, exhales, farthingales, females, fetiales, finales, folktales, gales, galingales, gunwales, hales, impales, inhales, intervales, jacales, kales, keelhales, locales, macroscales, males, martingales, microscales, montadales, morales, musicales, narwhales, nightingales, oversales, pales, pastorales, percales, petrales, pinwales, quetzales, quezales, rales, rationales, reales, regales, resales, rescales, romeldales, sales. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ALES": agendaless, arbalest, arbalests, braless, calesa, calesas, centralest, coalesce, coalesced, coalescence, coalescences, coalescent, coalesces, coalescing, convalesce, convalesced, convalescence, convalescences, convalescent, convalescents, convalesces, convalescing, dalesman, dalesmen, dismalest, federalese, federaleses, halest, idealess, incalescence, incalescences, incalescent, journalese, journaleses, legalese, legaleses, loyalest, officialese, officialeses, opalesce, opalesced, opalescence, opalescences, opalescent, opalescently, opalesces, opalescing, palest, palestra, palestrae, palestras. (additional references) | |
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"ALES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aals, abes, ables, adles, ael, Aelst, ahes, ailes, ajes, ajle, alac, alask, alass, alast, alax, Alaysi, Alazi, albeis, Alcs, Aldec, aldens, alea, aleb, alec, alecs, aled, aleds, aleed, aleef, aleeg, aleem, aleet, alefs, aleg, alei, alek, Aleksi, Alem, alen, aler, alet, aletsch, aleu, aleus, Alexsey, alez, alfed, alies, alifs, alips, alis, alism, aliso, Aliss, alist, alits, Alkem, allas, alle, allek, allers, alles, allev, allez, allus, almes, Alness, alos, alpes, Alse, Alsek, alsets, alsw, altec, alus, Alush, Alvesda, Alvez, Alzet, anlas, aoes, aples, Aqesqn, ates, atls, Aulis, aulos, aves, ayllus, Ealees, eles, elesy, iles, jales, laes, oles, ules, ulevs, Ulles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ALES" (pronounced ā"lz) |
| 3 | ā" l z | ails, assails, bails, bales, Brailles, curtails, dales, derails, details, entails, fails, gales, hails, Hales, jails, mails, males, nails, pails, pales, prevails, quails, rails, rales, sails, sales, scales, shales, snails, swails, Swales, tails, tales, trails, travails, unveils, vales, veils, wails, Wales, whales. |
| 2 | -l z | Abeles, ables, accruals, acquittals, admirals, advertorials, aerosols, agrochemicals, airfoils, aisles, alls, Als, ambles, angels, angles, animals, ankles, annals, annuals, anthills, apostles, appalls, appeals, apples, appraisals, approvals, archangels, arrivals, arsenals, articles, artiodactyls, assembles, audiophiles, australs, automobiles, axles, consoles, constables, continentals, controls, convertibles, cools, corals, councils, counsels, baffles, bagels, balls, balmorals, bankrolls, barbells, barbels, barnacles, barrels, baseballs, basketballs, battles, baubles, beadles, beagles, beetles, befalls, befuddles, belittles, belles, bells, bels, betrayals, bibles, bicycles, bifocals, biles, bills, bindles, biologicals, biomaterials, biphenyls, bisexuals, boggles, boils, boles, bolls, bombshells, Boodles, boondoggles, bottles, bowels, bowls, brambles, brawls, bristles, brothels, bubbles, buckles, bugles, bulls, bundles, burials, bushels, buttonholes, cables, calls, camels, canals, cancels, candles, cannibals, capitals, capitols, capsules, cardinals, Carles, carls, carnivals, carols, cartels, cartwheels, castles, casuals, catcalls, cathedrals, cells, cels, cereals, channels, charcoals, chemicals, Chiles, chills, chisels, chorals, chortles, chronicles, chuckles, circles, coals, coattails, cocktails, coils, Coles, collectibles, colonels, colonials, commercials, compatibles, compels, compiles, conceals, confessionals, counterproposals, couples. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lase, leas, sale, seal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ale, als, els, las, lea, sae, sal, sea, sel. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s" | |
+1 letter: ables, aisle, alecs, alefs, almes, aloes, arles, axels, axles, bales, blase, dales, deals, earls, easel, elans, false, fleas, gales, hales, heals, kales, laces, lades, lakes, lames, lanes, lapse, lares, lased, laser, lases, laves, lazes, leads, leafs, leaks, leans, leaps, lears, lease, leash, least, lyase, males, meals, pales, peals, pleas, rales, reals, sable, salep, sales, salve, scale, seals, selah, selva, sepal, seral, setal, shale, sheal, slake, slate, slave, spale, stale, steal, stela, swale, taels, tales, teals, tesla, vales, valse, veals, wales, weals, zeals. | |
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