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ETYMOLOGIES

Definition: ETYMOLOGIES

ETYMOLOGIES

Plural

1. Of Etymology

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ETYMOLOGIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

 

Crosswords: ETYMOLOGIES

Specialty definitions using "ETYMOLOGIES": Samedi. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ETYMOLOGIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Dictionary of True Etymologies (reference)

  • A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 25) (reference)

  • Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise 35/000 Mots Avec Etymologies (reference)

  • Etymologies (reference)

  • Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: ETYMOLOGIES

"ETYMOLOGIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ETYMOLOGIES" is used about 9 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)100%9117,287

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ETYMOLOGIES

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

etymologies

14

etymologies word

2

etymologies origin word

2

english etymologies words

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: ETYMOLOGIES

Misspellings

"ETYMOLOGIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etymologie. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ETYMOLOGIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: etymologise.

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-y"

-1 letter: semeiology.

-2 letters: gloomiest, myologies, semiology.

-3 letters: eglomise, etiology, misology, otiosely, sitology, toilsome.

-4 letters: egotism, elegist, elegits, elmiest, etoiles, gemotes, gimlets, gooiest, logiest, moistly, mooleys, motiles, motleys, myosote, ologies, ologist, omelets, oolites, ostiole, semilog, sootily, stoolie, telomes.

-5 letters: egoism, egoist, elegit, elemis, elites, emotes, etoile, gemote, gemots, gimels, gimlet, gleets, gleety, glimes, glooms, gloomy, golems, goosey.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: epistemology, etymologised, etymologises, etymologizes.

 

+2 letters: sedimentology.

 

+3 letters: demythologizes, remythologizes.

 

+4 letters: demythologizers.

 

+5 letters: metapsychologies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ETYMOLOGIES


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

45 54 59 4D 4F 4C 4F 47 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)

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

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

01000101 01010100 01011001 01001101 01001111 01001100 01001111 01000111 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#84 &#89 &#77 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#71 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0054 0059 004D 004F 004C 004F 0047 0049 0045 0053

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

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

3954594749464941433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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