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Date "FERNEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ferney The patriarch of Ferney. Voltaire; so called because he retired to Ferney, a small sequestered village near Geneva, from which obscure retreat he poured forth his invectives against the French Government, the Church, nobles, nuns, priests, and indeed all classes. "There are in Paris five or six statues of the Patriarch of Ferney." - The Times. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "FERNEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FERNEY" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
ferney voltaire | 14 |
ferney | 4 |
ferney voltaire hotel | 4 |
ferney sd | 3 |
ferney shopping.com | 2 |
alice ferney | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: ferny, feyer, reefy. | |
-2 letters: eery, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, fere, fern, free, reef. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, eye, fee, fen, fer, fey, fry, nee, ree, ref, rye, yen. | |
-4 letters: ef, en, er, ne, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: fernery. | |
+2 letters: ferrymen, fervency, greenfly, refinery. | |
+3 letters: fervently, frequency, hyperfine, redefying. | |
+4 letters: afferently, efferently, effrontery, festoonery, fleeringly, freezingly, frenziedly, frequently, funereally, reedifying, reidentify. | |
+5 letters: beneficiary, confederacy, differently, esterifying, etherifying, fellmongery, freemasonry, infrequency, resentfully, reverifying, typefounder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 52 4E 45 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. -. . -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E R N E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0052 004E 0045 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403952483959 |
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