FENTON

"FENTON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a marsh town".

Date "FENTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fenton One who seeks to mend his fortune by marriage. He is the suitor of Anne Page. Her father objects to him, he says, because "I am too great of birth; And that, my state being gall'd with my expense, I seek to heal it only by his wealth." Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor. iii. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Fenton is the name of a town in the United Kingdom and of some places in the United States of America:

Fenton, Michigan, USA
Fenton, Missouri, USA

Crosswords: FENTON

Specialty definitions using "FENTON": Saccharissa. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Passionate Pen: The Life and Times of Faith Fenton (reference) Fenton Art Glass 1907-1939: Identification & Value Guide (Fenton Art Glass, Vol 3) (reference) Fenton Art Glass Patterns 1939-1980: Identification & Value Guide (Vol 2) (reference) Fenton Glass Compendium 1970-1985 (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (reference) Fenton Glass: The 1980s Decade [ABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)
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	"A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter." (quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption) This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side. Credit: NAVY.		Steam engine of four horsepower by Messrs. Fenton, Murray & Wood, 1802. Applied to a mill for grinding bark. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Presentation of two hundred battle-flags to Governor Fenton at Albany, New York, July 4, 1865 / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. Credit: Library of Congress.		Fenton House, Mt. Clemens. Credit: Library of Congress.
	This is to certify that Reuben E. Fenton is a life member of Judson Missionary Association of the Hanson Place Baptist Sabbath School / lith. of Seibert, Wetzler & Co., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"FENTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FENTON" is used about 170 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)	100%	170	23,898

The following table summarizes the usage of "FENTON" 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
Fenton	Last name	6,000	1,960
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Fenton, IA (city, FIPS 27210)
Location: 43.21826 N, 94.42768 W
Population (1990): 346 (179 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 50539
Country: USA

2. Fenton, IL
Zip Code(s): 61251
Country: USA

3. Fenton, LA (village, FIPS 25335)
Location: 30.36347 N, 92.91676 W
Population (1990): 265 (110 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

4. Fenton, MI (city, FIPS 27760)
Location: 42.80002 N, 83.71425 W
Population (1990): 8444 (3395 housing units)
Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 48430
Country: USA

5. Fenton, MO (city, FIPS 23950)
Location: 38.53610 N, 90.45136 W
Population (1990): 3346 (1143 housing units)
Area: 12.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 63026
Country: USA

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Expression: FENTON

Expression using "FENTON": Lake Fenton. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FENTON

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
fenton glass	434	communication fenton	10
fenton michigan	390	association athletic fenton	10
fenton	360	brad fenton motor	10
fenton missouri	328	mark fenton	10
fenton art glass	156	fenton basket	9
fenton glassware	59	art fenton glass.com	9
fenton lamp	43	fenton turner	9
fenton high school	35	fenton hobnail	8
fenton glass company	29	fenton cat	8
fenton vase	26	fenton hotel	8
lake fenton	25	fenton reaction	8
fenton milk glass	23	fenton milkglass	8
fenton carnival glass	19	fenton michigan real estate	8
cinema fenton	18	fenton ned	8
fenton riverchase	16	fenton miguel	7
factory fenton glass	14	antique fenton glass	7
bank fenton state	13	fenton glass lamp	7
fenton bell	11	fenton header	7
city of fenton	10	fenton school	7
fenton art glass company	10	james fenton	7
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Misspellings: FENTON

Misspellings
	"FENTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fantin, Farnton, Fentem, Fernon, Ffynnon, Finlon, Finson, Finton, Fintona, Fonmon, Fontin, funton, Fynnon, Genton. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FENTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-n-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: nonet, often, tenon, tonne.
	-2 letters: font, neon, none, note, tone.
	-3 letters: eft, eon, fen, fet, foe, fon, net, not, oft, one, ten, toe, ton.
	-4 letters: ef, en, et, ne, no, oe, of, on, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-n-n-o-t"
	+2 letters: fenthion, fontanel.
	+3 letters: afternoon, confident, confluent, fenthions, fomenting, fontanels, frontline, infection, nonfinite, softening.
	+4 letters: afternoons, confecting, confection, conferment, confidante, confluents, confronted, confronter, definition, festooning, fontanelle, fountained, functioned, infections, inflection, interferon, knifepoint, oceanfront, omnificent, refronting, unfoldment.
	+5 letters: antiforeign, benefaction, codefendant, confections, conferments, confidantes, confidently, confinement, confronters, definitions, enfeoffment, enforcement, entomofauna, fecundation, fibronectin, fomentation, fontanelles, frontrunner, infestation, inflections, interferons, interfusion, knifepoints, nonaffluent, nonfeminist, noninfected, noninfested, oceanfronts, reinfection, reinflation, renotifying, sinfonietta, unfoldments, unfortunate.
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