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FIGARY

Definition: FIGARY

FIGARY

Noun

1. A frolic; a vagary; a whim.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Figary \Fig"a*ry\, noun. [Corrupted from vagary.]. (Websters 1913)

Name Usage Frequency: FIGARY

The following table summarizes the usage of "FIGARY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FigaryLast name10085,146
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "FIGARY"

Words rhyming with "FIGARY" (pronounced 'Fig"a*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FIGARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-r-y"

-1 letter: fairy.

-2 letters: airy, fair, fiar, frag, fray, frig, gray, gyri, ragi, yagi.

-3 letters: air, arf, fag, far, fay, fig, fir, fry, gar, gay, rag, ray, ria, rif, rig, rya, yar.

-4 letters: ag, ai, ar, ay, fa, if, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-r-y"
 

+1 letter: fraying, gratify.

 

+2 letters: foraying, frayings, grayfish.

 

+3 letters: aerifying, affraying, argufying, defraying, flaringly, fragility, frugality, panfrying, ramifying, rarefying, rarifying, ratifying, wayfaring.

 

+4 letters: carnifying, clarifying, forgivably, gratifying, grayfishes, ladyfinger, profligacy, scarifying.

 

+5 letters: falteringly, filmography, gallimaufry, infrangibly, ladyfingers, repacifying, stratifying.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FIGARY


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

46 49 47 41 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01001001 01000111 01000001 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0047 0041 0052 0059

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

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

404341355259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Names: Frequency
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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