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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | F's The three f's. ~~~F Fixed tenure, ~~~F Fair rent, ~~~F Free sale. The platform of the Irish League in 1880. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: F'S |
| Specialty definitions using "F'S": generic type variable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They won't be happy until they remove one of the F's from Jefferson's name! (1776; writing credit: Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone) Love is too weak a word for what I feel -- I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes I have to invent, of course I -- I do, don't you think I do? (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "F'S" is generally used as an alphabetical symbol -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "F'S" is used about 27 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 |
| Alphabetical Symbol | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Proper Noun Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "'-f-s" | |
+4 letters: Forest', For'tis, Fraser', Frisch', Ps'soft, S'funny. | |
+5 letters: S'amfora, Serafin', Sniffin', Spiffin'. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 27 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 00100111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F ' S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0027 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40953 |
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