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FICA

Definition: FICA

FICA

Noun

1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"FICA" is a common misspelling or typo for: face, facts, focal, foci, fuci, mice.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: FICA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

FICA

FrenchFédération internationale des cheminots antialcooliquesLabor

FICA

SpanishFederación Internacional de Control AutomáticoComputing, Engineering & Technology

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

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Crosswords: FICA

Non-English Usage: "FICA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (it fits, stays, suits), Portuguese Brazilian (it fits, it is located, stays, suits).

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Modern Usage: FICA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tchau Pra Quem Fica (1970)

Salazar: O Homem Que Está e Fica (1999)

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

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Commercial Usage: FICA

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Expression: FICA

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "FICA": c-fica.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FICA

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  fica

931

  2003 fica rate

7

  fica tax

173

  2003 fica tax

7

  fica score

151

  fica mia

7

  fica limit

68

  fica tax limit

6

  2003 fica limit

40

  fica security social

6

  fica tip credit

32

  2003 fica rate tax

5

  fica rate

30

  fica tax withholding

5

  fica maximum

21

  fica tax table

5

  fica tax rate

20

  definition fica

4

  fica tree

17

  fica percentage

4

  2003 fica

16

  comigo fica

4

  fica witholding

14

  fica limit withholding

4

  fica withholding

13

  cient fica metodologia

4

  fica oasdi

11

  fica table

4

  2003 fica maximum

10

  fica wages

4

  fica credit score

10

  fica payroll

4

  fica pelosa

8

  2003 fica max

4

  fica max

8

  canad de fica geogr n ubicaci

4

  deduction fica

7

  fica free score

4

  fica cap

7

  2003 fica withholding

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: FICA

Derivations

Words containing "FICA": acetification, acetifications, acidification, acidifications, ammonification, ammonifications, amplification, amplifications, antidesertification, basification, basifications, beatifically, beatification, beatifications, beautification, beautifications, bourgeoisification, bourgeoisifications, calcification, calcifications, caprification, caprifications, certificate, certificated, certificates, certificating, certification, certifications, certificatory, citification, citifications, clarification, clarifications, classification, classifications, classificatory, coalification, coalifications, codification, codifications, commodification, commodifications, cornification, cornifications, dandification, dandifications, deacidification, deacidifications, decalcification, decalcifications, decertification. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: FICA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-i"

-2 letters: ai, fa, if.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i"
 

+1 letter: calif, facia, farci, mafic.

 

+2 letters: biface, califs, fabric, facial, facias, facies, facile, facing, farcie, fascia, fecial, fiacre, fiance, fiasco, fiscal, fracti, pacify.

 

+3 letters: acetify, acidify, aciform, affiche, afflict, backfit, bifaces, bifocal, caffein, caitiff, calcify, carnify, catfish, chafing, clarify, coalify, fabrics, facials, faciend, facings, faction, factoid, faience, fanatic, fancied, fancier, fancies, fancify, fancily, faradic, farcies, farcing, fasciae, fascial, fascias, fascine, fascism, fascist, fatidic, faucial, fecials, fiacres, fiancee, fiances, fiaschi, fiascos, finance, finback, finical, fiscals, flaccid, folacin, frantic, fuchsia, fumaric, icefall, infancy, infarct, infract, maffick, malefic, opacify, pacific, scarify, tackify, traffic, uniface.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FICA


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

46 49 43 41

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)

01000110 01001001 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0043 0041

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

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

40433735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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