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FALLACIES

Definition: FALLACIES

FALLACIES

Plural

1. Of Fallacy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FALLACIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

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Crosswords: FALLACIES

English words defined with "FALLACIES": Semilogical. (references)
Etymologies containing "FALLACIES": Fallacy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FALLACIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Economic Fallacies (reference)

  • Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (reference)

  • Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (reference)

  • Historians' Fallacies; Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. (reference)

  • Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball, Revised and Updated (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Fallacies of the Evolutionary Theory (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Use in Literature: FALLACIES

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

But let me illustrate the two fallacies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: FALLACIES

"FALLACIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "FALLACIES" is used about 33 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)96.97%3261,292
Noun (proper)3.03%1339,140
                    Total100.00%33N/A

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

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Expression: FALLACIES

Expression using "FALLACIES": fallacies of vision. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: FALLACIES

Language Translations for "FALLACIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

谬论 (Fallacy, Quibble). (various references)

   

German

  

Täuschungen (beguilements, deceits, delusions, illusivenesses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allaciesfay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FALLACIES

Misspellings

"FALLACIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dallasites, Fallacci, Fallaci, fallacie, fallicies, Gallacio. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "FALLACIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "FALLACIES" (pronounced fa"lusēz)
5-l u s ē zjealousies, policies.
4-u s ē zaccuracies, archdiocese, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, courtesies, delicacies, democracies, embassies, fantasies, inadequacies, intricacies, legacies, pharmacies, privacies, prophecies.
3-s ē zagencies, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fancies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, prognoses, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FALLACIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-l-s"

-1 letter: icefalls.

-2 letters: facials, failles, fasciae, fascial, fecials, icefall.

-3 letters: aecial, allies, calesa, califs, callas, facial, facias, facies, facile, faecal, faille, falces, falsie, fascia, fecial, fellas, filles, fiscal, flails, laical, lilacs, scilla.

-4 letters: aecia, aisle, alecs, alefs, alfas, alias, alifs, cafes, calfs, calif, calla, calls, ceils, cella, celli, cells, clefs, faces, facia, fails, falls, false, fecal, fella, fells, fices, files, fille, fills, flail, fleas, flics, flies, ileac, ileal, laces, laics, leafs, lilac, lisle, saice, salal, salic, scale, scall, slice.

-5 letters: aals, aces, ails, alae, alas, alec, alef, ales, alfa, alif, alls, asci, asea, cafe, calf, call, casa, case, ceil, cell, cels, clef, ells, face, fail, fall, feal, fell, fice, fila, file, fill, fils, fisc, flea, flic, ices, ilea, ills, isle, lace, lacs, laic, lase, leaf, leal, leas, leis, lice, lief, lies, life, safe, sail, sale, sall, seal, seif, self, sell, sial, sice, sill.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-l-s"
 

+3 letters: classifiable.

 

+5 letters: fallaciousness, unclassifiable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FALLACIES


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

46 41 4C 4C 41 43 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)

01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 004C 004C 0041 0043 0049 0045 0053

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

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

403546463537433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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