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FIREFISH

Definition: FIREFISH

FIREFISH

Noun

1. A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"FIREFISH" is a common misspelling or typo for: Filefish.


Frequency of Internet Keywords: FIREFISH

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  firefish

13

  firefish purple

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FIREFISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-f-h-i-i-r-s"

-1 letter: fishier, sheriff.

-2 letters: fifers, fisher, iffier, sherif.

-3 letters: fiefs, fifer, fifes, fires, fresh, fries, frise, heirs, hires, reifs, riffs, rishi, serif, shier, shire.

-4 letters: effs, fehs, fief, fife, fire, firs, fish, heir, hers, hies, hire, ires, iris, refs, reif, reis, resh, rife, riff, rifs, rise, seif, serf, shri, sire.

-5 letters: eff, efs, ers, feh, fer.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-f-h-i-i-r-s"
 

+2 letters: firefights.

 

+3 letters: chiffoniers, frenchifies.

 

+4 letters: firefighters.

 

+5 letters: firefightings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FIREFISH


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

46 49 52 45 46 49 53 48

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#70 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0045 0046 0049 0053 0048

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

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

4043523940435342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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