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 | Bog Trotters Band members seated with instruments, Galax, Va. Includes Doc Davis, with autoharp; Crockett Ward, with fiddle; Uncle Alex Dunford, with fiddle; Wade Ward, with banjo; Fields Ward, with guitar. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncle Alex Dunford, of Bog Trotters Band, with fiddle, Galax, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instruments, Galax, Va. Includes band leader, Doc Davis, with autoharp; Uncle Alex Dunford with fiddle; Crockett Ward with fiddle; Wade Ward with banjo; Fields Ward with guitar. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DUNFORD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUNFORD" is used about 32 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% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DUNFORD" 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 |
| Dunford | Last name | 2,000 | 7,341 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DUNFORD": Dunford-wood. | |
| 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 |
dunford | 6 |
dunford saanich tim | 2 |
dunford genealogy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-f-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: fondu, found, frond, round. | |
-3 letters: dour, durn, duro, fond, ford, four, fund, nurd, rudd, undo. | |
-4 letters: don, dor, dud, dun, duo, fon, for, fou, fro, fud, fun, fur, nod, nor, odd, oud, our, rod, run, udo, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, of, on, or, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-f-n-o-r-u" | |
+2 letters: foundered, refounded. | |
+3 letters: floundered, overfunded, undeformed. | |
+4 letters: dumbfounder, hundredfold. | |
+5 letters: dumbfounders, foregrounded, soundproofed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 4E 46 4F 52 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. ..- -. ..-. --- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010101 01001110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U N F O R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 004E 0046 004F 0052 0044 |
| 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)38554840495238 |
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