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| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | FAGAN, the Hebrew benefactor of Oliver Twist, whose name did not fit his religion. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fearless Fagan (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "FAGAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.05% of the time. "FAGAN" is used about 105 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) | 99.05% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.95% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FAGAN" 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 |
| Fagan | Last name | 6,000 | 2,012 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fagan | 39 | alex fagan | 3 |
fagan donald | 17 | sean fagan | 3 |
fagan chevrolet | 13 | fagan john | 3 |
fagan michael | 12 | fagan paul | 3 |
fagan garth | 8 | dr fagan | 3 |
donald fagan song | 6 | alex fagan jr | 3 |
fagan peter | 6 | curtis fagan | 2 |
fagan mary | 6 | garth fagan dance | 2 |
brian fagan | 5 | david fagan | 2 |
fagan myron | 5 | adam fagan | 2 |
fagan finder | 4 | construction fagan | 2 |
ed fagan | 4 | fagan robert william | 2 |
fagan michael queen | 4 | bernie fagan | 2 |
fagan william | 4 | fagan jessica | 2 |
fagan inspection | 4 | discography fagan scott | 2 |
company fagan | 4 | door fagan | 2 |
grant fagan | 4 | fagan tom | 2 |
fagan kate | 3 | fagan inc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Misspellings | |
"FAGAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Affan, Agan, Cagan, Fagel, Fagen, faggan, Faggiani, fagin, fagun, Faha, Falana, fatan, Feggans, Fegman, Fga, Fidani, Figan, Figeac, Figini, Figino, Fraughan, Fugen, Gagan, Nagan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fanga. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-n" | |
-1 letter: anga, fang. | |
-2 letters: aga, ana, fag, fan, gan, nag. | |
-3 letters: aa, ag, an, fa, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-n" | |
+1 letter: afghan, fanega, fangas. | |
+2 letters: afghani, afghans, fanegas, flagman. | |
+3 letters: afghanis, fandango, fanegada, flagrant, fragrant, langlauf. | |
+4 letters: affraying, catfacing, fandangos, fanegadas, flagrance, flagrancy, fragrance, fragrancy, franglais, langlaufs, megafauna, safariing, seafaring, suffragan, wayfaring. | |
+5 letters: affiancing, antifungal, catfacings, fantasying, faradising, faradizing, flagellant, flagrances, flagrantly, fragmental, fragrances, fragrantly, frangipane, frangipani, langlaufer, magnifical, magnificat, megafaunae, megafaunal, megafaunas, ragamuffin, seafarings, shandygaff, suffragans. | |
| 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)46 41 47 41 4E |
| 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)01000110 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A G A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0047 0041 004E |
| 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)4035413548 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage Frequency 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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