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Date "DWYER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | [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. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 93.89% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 6.11% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dwyer | Last name | 9,000 | 1,368 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Dwyer Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DWYER": Bull-dwyer. | |
| 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 |
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. | |||
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). | |
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. 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)44 57 59 45 52 |
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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)01000100 01010111 01011001 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D W Y E R |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3857593952 |
| 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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