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FECKS

Definition: FECKS

FECKS

Noun

1. A corruption of the word faith.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FECKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

 

Anagrams: FECKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-k-s"

-1 letter: feck, kefs.

-2 letters: efs, kef, sec.

-3 letters: ef, es.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-k-s"
 

+1 letter: flecks.

 

+2 letters: fuckers.

 

+3 letters: beflecks, defrocks, elflocks, facemask, feckless, fetlocks, ficklest, flickers, flyspeck, freckles.

 

+4 letters: backfires, beefcakes, checkoffs, cheekfuls, ecofreaks, facemasks, feedbacks, feedstock, firebacks, firelocks, flockiest, flyspecks, foredecks, forelocks, foreshock, fossicked, fossicker, kerchiefs, tackifies.

 

+5 letters: afterdecks, aftershock, backfields, blackfaces, blackflies, bucketfuls, bucketsful, cornflakes, disfrocked, fecklessly, feedstocks, fickleness, finickiest, firebricks, flackeries, flyspecked, forechecks, foreshocks, fossickers, freckliest, friedcakes, fruitcakes, jackfishes, jackknifes, pocketfuls, pocketsful, rockfishes, suckfishes, superflack, tackifiers, workforces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FECKS


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

46 45 43 4B 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 01000101 01000011 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#67 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0043 004B 0053

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

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

4039374553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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