Farrago

Definition: Farrago

Farrago

Noun

1. A motley assortment of things.

Date "farrago" was first used: 1632. (references)

Etymology: Farrago \Far*ra"go\, noun. [Latin expression farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder for cattle, mash, medley, from far sort of grain. See Farina.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Farrago A farrago of nonsense. A confused heap of nonsense. Farrago is properly a mixture of far (meal) with other ingredients for the use of cattle. "Anquetil was derided ..., for having suffered a farrago of nonsense to be palmed off upon him by his Parsi teachers as the works of the sage Zoroaster." - Whitney: Oriental Studies (Avesta), chap. vi. p. 184. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Farrago

Synonyms: hodgepodge (n), hotchpotch (n), melange (n), mingle-mangle (n), mishmash (n), oddments (n), odds and ends (n), omnium-gatherum (n), ragbag (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absurdity	Farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago; (disorder); betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy.
Disorder	Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Farrago

Etymologies containing "farrago": Farraginous. (references)

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

Latin (farrago, mash /mishmash, medley, mix of grains for animal feed, mixed fodder for cattle, mixture).

Domain	Title
Books	A Farrago of Lies (reference) Farrago (reference) Farrago Latina: A Teacher Resource (reference) The Farrago (reference) Variaciones alredor de nada ; Prosas de Gaspar ; Farrago (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Farrago" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Farrago" is used about 20 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 (singular)	95%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "farrago"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), mishmash (hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mishmash). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزيج (admixture, blend, commixture, compost, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, melange, mishmash, mix, mixing up, mixture), ‏خليط (admixture, blend, compost, conglomeration, cut, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, medley, melange, mishmash, mix, mixture, mixture concoction, patchy). (various references)

Bulgarian		смесица (alloy, amalgam, gallimaufry, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, mess, miscellany, mixture, motley, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter). (various references)

Czech		smìs (amalgam, assortment, blend, brew, combination, commixture, compound, concoction, medley, miscellany, mix, mix up, mixture). (various references)

German		Mischmasch (concoction, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, hotpotch, mishmash). (various references)

Greek		συνονθύλευμα (hodgepodge, mishmash). (various references)

Hungarian		egyveleg (medley, miscellany, pot pourri, pot-pourri). (various references)

Italian		farragine (jumble, muddle). (various references)

Manx		mestey-vestey (concoction, dog's breakfast, imbroglio, mix up), broish (miscellany, oatcake in milk, soup with bread included, stew). (various references)

Pig Latin		arragofay

Romanian		talmeş-balmeş (confusion, fustian, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, muddle, olio, topsy turvy, upside down, welter), amestec (admixture, blend, composite, compound, concoction, connection, crossing, disarray, fusion, hash, hotchpotch, huddle, interference, intermixture, intervening, jumble, mash, medley, mixture, muddle, olio, omnium gatherum, palaver). (various references)

Russian		смесь (amalgam, blend, chow-chow, collectanea, commixture, composite, composition, compound, concoction, hotchpotch, interfusion, intermixture, jumble, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixture, olio, pasticcio, pastiche, potpourri, salmagundi). (various references)

Scottish		brothas. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mešavina (admixture, amalgam, blend, composite, compost, congeries, hash, intermixture, jumble, medley, melange, mix, mixture, olio, pasticcio, pastiche). (various references)

Swedish		röra (admixture, affect, be pertinent to, concern, gallimaufry, hash, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, huggermugger, jumble, mess, mixture, move, muck-up, muss, patchwork, pie, promiscuity, shambles, stir, touch, tumble, turmoil, welter, wilderness), hopkok (concoction, confection, gallimaufry), blandning (admixture, alloy, allsorts, amalgam, amalgamation, assortment, batch, blend, commixture, composite, cross, formulation, immixture, interfusion, intermixture, medley, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum). (various references)

Turkish		karmakarışık şey (gallimaufry, hotchpotch, jumble, macaroni), karışım (admixture, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, combo, commixture, concoction, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, melange, mix, mixture, potpourri), karışık şey (complex, hash, hodgpodge, melange, mess, muddle, olio, tangled thing). (various references)

Vietnamese		mớ lộn xộn món hổ lốn, đống lẫn lộn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	farrago. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "farrago": farragoes, farragos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Farrago" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arregui, earragh, farage, farago, faragoe, Faragon, farao, Farragon, Farragut, Farrugia, ferago, ferrangi, Ferrano, Ferrigno, firago, firrago. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "farrago" (pronounced 'Far*ra"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Dingo, Drongo, Ego, Ergo, Eringo, Eryngo, Fandango, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, Hogo, imago, Imbargo, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-o-r-r"
	-2 letters: agora.
	-3 letters: afar, agar, faro, fora, frag, frog, orra, raga, roar.
	-4 letters: aga, ago, arf, fag, far, fog, for, fro, gar, goa, gor, oaf, oar, ora, rag.
	-5 letters: aa, ag, ar, fa, go, of, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-o-r-r"
	+1 letter: farragos.
	+2 letters: farragoes.
	+4 letters: farraginous, grandiflora.
	+5 letters: grandiflorae, grandifloras.
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