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DUKERIES

Specialty Definition: DUKERIES

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Literature

Dukeries A district in Nottinghamshire, so called from the number of ducal residences in the vicinity, including Welbeck Abbey, Thoresby, Clumber, Worksop, Kiveton Hall, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: DUKERIES

"DUKERIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 58.00% of the time. "DUKERIES" is used about 50 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 (plural)58%2964,444
Noun (proper)42%2176,261
                    Total100.00%50N/A

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

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Anagrams: DUKERIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-r-s-u"

-1 letter: duikers, duskier, residue, ureides.

-2 letters: desire, dikers, duiker, eiders, reside, reused, risked, ureide.

-3 letters: deers, dekes, diker, dikes, dirks, drees, dreks, dries, druse, dukes, dures, eider, esker, irked, keirs, kiers, redes, reeds, reeks, resid, reuse, rides, seder, sered, sieur, siker, sired, siree, skeed, skied, skier, suede.

-4 letters: deer, dees, deke, dere, desk, dies, dike.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-k-r-s-u"
 

+5 letters: skulduggeries, thunderstrike.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DUKERIES


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

44 55 4B 45 52 49 45 53

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

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

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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 01010101 01001011 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#85 &#75 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0055 004B 0045 0052 0049 0045 0053

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

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

3855453952433953

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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