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Date "FI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
"FI" is a common misspelling or typo for: fend, fest, fid, firms, flax, if, phi. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Fi |
Literature | Fi or ~~~Fie! Fie! An exclamation indicating that what is reproved is dirty or indecent. The dung of many animals, as the boar, wolf, fox, marten, and badger, is called fiants, and the "orificium anale" is called a fi, a word still used in Lincolnshire. (Anglo-Norman, fay, to clean out; Saxon, afylan, to foul: our defile or file, to make foul; filth, etc.) The old words, fie-corn (dross corn), fi-lands (unenclosed lands), fi-mashings (the dung of any wild beast), etc., are compounds of the same word. "I had another process against the dungfarmer, Master Fifl." - Rabelais: Pantagruel, book ii. 17. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FI | Danish | Republikken Finland | Geography |
FI | Dutch | Republiek Finland | Geography |
FI | English | Farmers Insurance | N/A |
FI | Finnish | Suomi | Geography |
FI | French | Finlande | Geography |
FI | German | Finnland | Geography |
FI | Greek | Φινλανδία | Geography |
FI | Italian | Repubblica di Finlandia | Geography |
FI | Portuguese | Finlândia | Geography |
FI | Spanish | Finlandia | Geography |
FI | Swedish | Republiken Finland | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FI |
| Specialty definitions using "FI": Fi. Fa.. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (aim, conclusion, end, ending, goal, purpose, target), Dutch (phi), Esperanto (shame), Portuguese (phi), Romanian (be, come, cost, exist, go, happen, keep, lie, make, occur, stand), Spanish (Phi), Swedish (Phi), Welsh (I, me), Wolof (here). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Semper fi. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) You'll be fi - (A Walk to Remember; writing credit: Karen Janszen) | |
Lyrics | Yes a whole eep a pretty boy wah fi love me (Shy Guy; performing artist: Diana King) Percolate anything you wan fi call it (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL) Want a girl fi love mi up hug mi up give it to me right (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gharam fi al-Karnak (1967) Lika fi tadmur (1966) Gharam fi Stambul (1966) Abu Salim fi Afriquia (1965) Al Bedawia fi Roma (1965) | |
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![]() | Fi, la laide! / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. A 37 mm. gun crew, part of a U.S. Army tank force in New Guinea, fires at an objective at Buna Mission. Empty shells, heaped hurriedly in the foreground, indicate intensity of fi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Tuning in; science fiction; sci fi; . | Video game; laser gun; science fiction; sci fi. | ||
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| "FI" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 63.94% of the time. "FI" is used about 208 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 63.94% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.9% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (plural) | 7.21% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.21% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.73% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 208 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| France | FI System |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "FI": hi fi ♦ semper fi. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FI": Fi-fi, fi-xing. | |
Ending with "FI": sci-fi. | |
Containing "FI": hi-fi set, hi-fi system, hi-fi unit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "FI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hifi (hi fi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Hi-Fi (hifi, hi-fi, high fidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hi-fi (hi-fi, high fidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | science-fiction (science fiction, sci-fi), Hi-Fi (hi-fi, high fidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "יי פיי (hi fi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hifi (hi fi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fantascienza (science fiction, sci-fi), alta fedelt (high fidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | フィールド競技 (face, face sheet, face value, face-card, face-off, fade, fade ball, fade-in, fade-out, fatal, Federation Internationale de Nation Amateur cup, fiance, fiction, field events, fielder's choice, fifty-fifty, figurative, figure, figure skating, Fiji, filament, filaria, filibuster, fill, fill-in, film, film library, film net, filter, filter-bank, filtering, fin, FINA cup, finale, finger, finger bowl, fingering, finish, Finland, fiscal policy, fish, fish meal, fishing, fit, fitness, fitness shoes, fitting, fitting room, fix, fixed, fixer, fjord, FO, phase, Philadelphia, philanthropy, philharmonic, philharmonie, Philippines, Philips, philosophy, physical, physical protection, questionnaire that asks for a demographic profile, vinyl drainpipe with fins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フェードイン (fade-in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifay ficção científica (science fiction, sci-fi). (various references) научная фантастика (science fiction, sci-fi). (various references) hi fi (hi fi). (various references) de alta fidelidad (hi fi), ciencia ficción (science fiction, sci-fi), alta fidelidad (hi-fi, high fidelity, high-fidelity). (various references) hi-fi (hi fi, high fidelity). (various references) volümü yüksek (hi fi), iyi ses veren (hi fi), doğala en yakın ses veren (hi fi, high fidelity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FI": fiacre, fiacres, fiance, fiancee, fiancees, fiances, fianchetti, fianchetto, fianchettoed, fianchettoing, fianchettos, fiar, fiars, fiaschi, fiasco, fiascoes, fiascos, fiat, fiats, fib, fibbed, fibber, fibbers, fibbing, fiber, fiberboard, fiberboards, fibered, fiberfill, fiberfills, fiberglass, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fiberglassing, fiberization, fiberizations, fiberize, fiberized, fiberizes, fiberizing, fiberoptic, fiberoptics, fibers, fiberscope, fiberscopes, fibranne, fibrannes, fibre, fibreboard, fibreboards, fibrefill. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FI": buffi, defi. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FI": acetification, acetifications, acetified, acetifies, acidification, acidifications, acidified, acidifier, acidifiers, acidifies, aerified, aerifies, affiance, affianced, affiances, affiancing, affiant, affiants, affiche, affiches, afficionado, afficionados, affidavit, affidavits, affiliate, affiliated, affiliates, affiliating, affiliation, affiliations, affinal, affine, affined, affinely, affines, affinities, affinity, affirm, affirmable, affirmance, affirmances, affirmation, affirmations, affirmative, affirmatively, affirmatives, affirmed, affirmer, affirmers, affirming, affirms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: if. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i" | |
+1 letter: fib, fid, fie, fig, fil, fin, fir, fit, fix, fiz, iff, ifs, kif, rif. | |
+2 letters: alif, biff, coif, cuif, defi, fail, fain, fair, fiar, fiat, fibs, fice, fico, fido, fids, fief, fife, figs, fila, file, fill, film, filo, fils, find, fine, fink, fino, fins, fire, firm, firn, firs, fisc, fish, fist, fits, five, fixt, fizz, flic, flip, flit, foci, foil, foin, frig, frit, friz, fuci, fuji, gift, iffy, info, jiff, kaif, kief, kifs, lief, life, lift, miff, naif, neif, pfui, reif, rife, riff, rifs, rift, seif, sift, tiff, waif, wife. | |
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