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DWYER

Date "DWYER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)


Commercial Usage: DWYER

DomainTitle

References

  • Dwyer Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: DWYER

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[Hugh L. Dwyer, Jr.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Frank Dwyer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Captain Barlow, Captain Trevor, Captain Hall, Captain Dwyer, Major Budd, Captain Hammersley, 14th Regiment. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: DWYER

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Pays his dues regularly but not plentifully to Father Dwyer of Larras.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: DWYER

"DWYER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.89% of the time. "DWYER" is used about 131 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)93.89%12328,925
Adjective (comparative)6.11%8124,375
                    Total100.00%131N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: DWYER

The following table summarizes the usage of "DWYER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DwyerLast name9,0001,368
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: DWYER

CountryName
USA

Dwyer Group, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: DWYER

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DWYER": Bull-dwyer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DWYER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dwyer

243

john dwyer

7

bud dwyer

152

dwyer middle school

7

dwyer instrument

89

bud dwyer video

7

budd dwyer r

61

dwyer son volvo

7

karyn dwyer

31

bill dwyer

7

budd dwyer

29

michael dwyer

7

dwyer michaels

19

dwyer manometer

6

dwyer inst.com

15

dwyer high school

6

the dwyer group

12

dwyer kitchen

6

dwyer watson

12

bud dwyer r

6

budd dwyer r video

11

dwyer home o

5

dwyer wayne

11

dwyer family

5

bud dwyer suicide

10

william t dwyer high school

5

b charles dwyer

9

kevin dwyer

5

dwyer flow meter

9

dwyer volvo

5

dwyer instrument inc

8

deanna dwyer

5

dwyer gauge

8

dwyer son

5

dr dwyer wayne

8

william t dwyer

4

dwyer mike o

8

bud dwyer gun

4

dwyer o

8

dwyer paul

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: DWYER

Misspellings

"DWYER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daymer, Dudyrev, Dwejra, D'yeh, D'york, Wyer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DWYER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-r-w-y"

-1 letter: dewy, drew, dyer.

-2 letters: dew, dey, dry, dye, red, rye, wed, wry, wye, yew.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, re, we, ye.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-r-w-y"
 

+1 letter: dowery, weirdy.

 

+2 letters: keyword, powdery, weirdly.

 

+3 letters: bewrayed, dewberry, driveway, keywords, lawyered, shrewdly, underway, wardenry.

 

+4 letters: crazyweed, dayflower, driveways, earlywood, midwifery, worriedly.

 

+5 letters: crazyweeds, dayflowers, donkeywork, earlywoods, hydropower, wordlessly, wretchedly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DWYER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 57 59 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .--.    -.--.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010111 01011001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#87 &#89 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0057 0059 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3857593952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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