FAY

Definitions: FAY

FAY

Intransitive verb

1. To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.

Noun

1. Faith; as, by my fay.

2. A fairy; an elf.

Transitive verb

1. To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

"FAY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fairy".

Date "FAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Fay (See Fairy.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Jupiter	Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: FAY

English words defined with "FAY": fata morgana, fayed, Faying ♦ Morgan le Fay. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FAY": Blue Sky Software ♦ Dame du Lac ♦ Morgan le Fay, Morgaine la Fee, Morgane ♦ O'riande ♦ Rings Noted in Fable. (references)

Etymologies containing "FAY": Feague ♦ Parfay. (references)

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

Turkish (fault), Wolof (there).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Whatever happened to Fay Wray That delicate satin-draped frame As it clung to her thigh How I started to cry 'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)
Movie/TV Titles	Fay Lung kwo gong (1978)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man (reference) Fay (reference) Fay Jones (reference) Marion Fay (Penguin Trollope, No 48) (reference) The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing: Feminine & Masculine in Emerging Balance (Carolyn and Ernest Fay, No 4) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Henry Kimball Hadley: Symphony No. 4, The Ocean, and The Culprit Fay (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fay Wells with the Winnie Mae.Credit: NASA.		Mrs. Le Fay.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Miss Fay Bainter in The Beaux Stratagem, the Players' Production, 1928.Credit: Library of Congress.		Plan de la Chersonèse / Ch. Fay del.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Fay Templeton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.Credit: Library of Congress.		Radcliffe College, gymnasium & Fay House, Cambridge, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Gymnasium and Fay House, Radcliffe College.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Fay Melvee and family working in their garden. Plum Bayou Project, Arkansas. (See general caption).Credit: Library of Congress.
	Captain Fay on General Bosquets staff.Credit: Library of Congress.		Wray, Fay, Miss, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Fay Wray	Only in your imagination can you revise.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	New Zealand	New Zealand Rail was privatized in 1993 and is owned by a corporation comprising Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation, Berkshire Partners and Fay, Richwhite & Company Limited. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Costas	Players' biggest failing is that they confuse economic issues with moral issues. That's the way the former commissioner, Fay Vincent, put it. They, as I would put it, they confuse self-interest with high principle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"FAY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "FAY" is used about 90 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)	95.56%	86	35,638
Noun (singular)	2.22%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.11%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	1.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	90	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "FAY" 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
Fay	First name Female	21,000	585
Fay	Last name	6,000	2,277
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"FAY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fairy".

The following table summarizes names related to "FAY."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Fae	Female	English	Fay
Fay	Female	English	N/A
Faye	Female	English	Fay
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Country	Name
USA	Leslie Fay Company, Inc.
	(more examples...)

1. Fay, OK
Zip Code(s): 73646
Country: USA

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Expressions: FAY

Expression using "FAY": morgan le fay. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Containing "FAY": nim-fay-a.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FAY

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
morgan le fay	73	william fay	10
fay	72	fay bill	10
fay wray	72	fay school	10
leslie fay	52	fay motor inc	9
cullen fay	45	fay m	9
fay michael	27	fay le morgane	9
jim fay	26	family fay	9
fay masterson	21	fay hauser	9
jennifer fay	21	fay la morgan	8
fay meyers	20	fay ray	8
fay m pattern	19	amber fay	7
fay myers	18	fay nathalie	7
james fay	16	fay ok	7
fay weldon	15	fay valentine	6
fay chevrolet	15	fay west.com	6
fay tina	14	fay spofford thorndike	6
baker fay tammy	14	clothing fay leslie	6
fay jones	14	fay karla tucker	6
dress fay leslie	13	the leslie fay company	6
fay ripley	12	fay bainter	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FAY

Language		Translations for "FAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Zanë (Faerie, fairy, pixy, spirit, wood nymph), Besë (faith, trust). (various references)

Arabic		‏جنية (fairy, hag, pixie, pixy). (various references)

Basque		maitagarri (fairy). (various references)

Bulgarian		Фея, �'ярност, �'яра. (various references)

Czech		Urèený K Záhubì. (various references)

Dutch		kleingevlekte hondshaai (fay dog, lesser spotted dogfish, rough dog, rough hound, small spotted dogfish), kleine hondshaai (fay dog, lesser spotted dogfish, rough dog, rough hound, small spotted dogfish). (various references)

German		Fee (fairy). (various references)

Greek		Νεράιδα (Nix, Undine). (various references)

Hungarian		Tündér (elf, Faerie, fairy, genie, pixie, pixy, sprite, sylph, urchin). (various references)

Occitan		fada (fairy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ayfay

Portuguese		Fada (Peri, pixilated, pizza, spirit, sprite), Fé (affiance, belief, confidence, faith, religion, trust), Nivelar (even as, flatten, flush left, Flushing, grade, level, to plumb down), Máquina De Facsímile. (various references)

Romanian		Zânã (fairy, goddess, pixy). (various references)

Russian		Фея (Faerie), �'ера. (various references)

Spanish		Meter (cause, dip, enclose, engage, inclose, insert, introduce, intrude, involve, jug, jump on, key, lay down, Lodge, log in, make, place, poke, put, put down, shove, sink, Stow, telescope, throw about, throw away, throw on, thrust, tuck in, turf out, yank off). (various references)

Swedish		Fe (fairy, feed unit, fodder unit, Peri, sprite), Anspråksfull (pretentious), Älva. (various references)

Thai		เทว�"าหรือนางฟ้า, ติ�"ไม้เข้า�"้วยกัน, ความเชื่อถือ. (various references)

Turkish		Peri (elf, Faerie, faery, fairy, genie, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite). (various references)

Ukranian		Міцно З'�"днувати, �"одитися. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: FAY

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	petit chat de mer, Scyllium canicula, VE petite roussette, VE Scyliorhinus caniculus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FAY

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FAY": fayalite, fayalites, fayed, faying, fays. (additional references)
	Words ending with "FAY": ofay. (additional references)
	Words containing "FAY": ofays. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"FAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faik, Faiq, Fayiz, fayo, Fayum, Fayyum, Fga, Fma, Fsyn, Fwa, fway. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FAY"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FAY" (pronounced fā")
2	f ā"	buffet, cafe, fey.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-y"
	-1 letter: ay, fa, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-y"
	+1 letter: fays, flay, fray, ofay, yaff.
	+2 letters: baffy, daffy, faddy, faery, faggy, fairy, fakey, fancy, fanny, farcy, fatly, fatty, fawny, fayed, flaky, flamy, flawy, flaxy, flays, foamy, foray, frays, leafy, ofays, taffy, yaffs.
	+3 letters: aerify, affray, argufy, barfly, basify, casefy, chaffy, crafty, daftly, dayfly, deafly, defray, draffy, drafty, fairly, fakery, family, faulty, faying, fealty, featly, flabby, flaggy, flakey, flappy, flashy, flatly, flayed, flayer, floaty, flyman, flyway, forays, frayed, freaky, friary, frypan, gadfly, gasify, infamy, layoff, mayfly, nazify, orfray, pacify, panfry, payoff, ramify, rarefy, rarify, ratify, safely, safety, salify, sawfly, wafery, yaffed.
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