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Definitions: BUFFA |
BUFFAAdjective1. Comic, farcical. Feminine noun1. The comic actress in an opera. |
Date "BUFFA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Crosswords: BUFFA |
| English words defined with "BUFFA": Aria buffa. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Cosa buffa (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "BUFFA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "BUFFA" is used about 18 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) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BUFFA" 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 |
| Buffa | Last name | 200 | 30,681 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BUFFA": aria buffa ♦ opera buffa. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
buffa | 12 |
opera buffa | 4 |
d buffa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BUFFA": buffable, buffalo, buffaloberries, buffaloberry, buffaloed, buffaloes, buffalofish, buffalofishes, buffaloing, buffalos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BUFFA" (pronounced 'Buf"fa'): Chufa, luffa, sofa, Stufa, tufa. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-u" | |
-1 letter: baff, buff. | |
-2 letters: aff, fub. | |
-3 letters: ab, ba, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-f-u" | |
+2 letters: buffalo. | |
+3 letters: bouffant, buffable, buffalos, puffball. | |
+4 letters: bouffants, buffaloed, buffaloes, puffballs. | |
+5 letters: breadstuff, buffaloing, bufflehead, sufferable, sufferably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 46 46 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000010 01010101 01000110 01000110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U F F A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0046 0046 0041 |
| 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)3655404035 |
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