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FOLLETS

Specialty Definition: FOLLETS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Follets Goblins of the north of France, who live in the houses of simple rustics, and can be expelled neither by water nor exorcism. They can be heard but are never seen. In the singular number, "esprit follet." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: FOLLETS

"FOLLETS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FOLLETS" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FOLLETS

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

follets book store

23

follets

9

book follets

4

book follets purdue store

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FOLLETS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-l-o-s-t"

-1 letter: folles.

-2 letters: fells, felts, floes, lefts, lofts, losel, stole, tells, telos, toles, tolls.

-3 letters: efts, ells, fell, felt, fets, floe, foes, left, lest, lets, loft, lose, lost, lots, oles, self, sell, sloe, slot, soft, sole, tell, tels, toes, tole, toll.

-4 letters: efs, eft, elf, ell, els, fet, foe, let, lot, oes, oft, ole, ose.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-l-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: floatels, loftless.

 

+2 letters: closetful, fellatios, fellators, folktales, forestall, foretells, softshell.

 

+3 letters: bottlefuls, closetfuls, fellations, flageolets, footlessly, forestalls, joyfullest, softballer, softshells, woefullest.

 

+4 letters: dolefullest, feuilletons, floatplanes, flocculates, fontanelles, footballers, forestalled, forestaller, foretellers, gentlefolks, softballers.

 

+5 letters: effortlessly, fathomlessly, felicitously, forestallers, forestalling, mournfullest, slothfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FOLLETS


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

46 4F 4C 4C 45 54 53

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)

..-.    ---    .-..    .-..    .    -    ...

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

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

01000110 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 004C 004C 0045 0054 0053

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

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

40494646395453

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INDEX

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


  

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