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Definition: FRAILTIES |
FRAILTIESPlural1. Of Frailty |
Date "FRAILTIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I wish you wouldn't, because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Naked Frailties (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Vinton Cerf | A visit to cyberspace is like a visit to the collective consciousness of the world. Alice's journey seems tame by comparison. Our hopes, our dreams, our monumental accomplishments, our frailties, and the everyday business of life is all there to be shared. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FRAILTIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FRAILTIES" is used about 39 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 (plural) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
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 |
frailties mixture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FRAILTIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 脆弱 (flimsy, fragility, frailty, Vulnerable). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Schwächen (bate, debilitate, depress, enervate, enervations, enfeeble, flaccidities, foibles, impoverish, infirmities, lower, pull down, reduce, relieve, sap, soften up, to bate, to debilitate, to enfeeble, undermine, unnerve, weaken, weaknesses), Fehltritte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ailtiesfray moraliska fel. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FRAILTIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frauleins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FRAILTIES" (pronounced frā"ltēz) |
| 4 | -l t ē z | casualties, cruelties, difficulties, faculties, loyalties, novelties, penalties, royalties, specialities, specialties, subtleties. |
| 3 | -t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, amnesties, animosities, annuities, Antes, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, beauties, booties, bounties, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, certainties, charities, christies, cities, committees, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, counties, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, diabetes, disabilities, disability, disparities, ditties, divinities, duties, dynasties, eccentricities, eighties, empties, enmities, entities, entreaties, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, fatties, festivities, fidelities, fifties, formalities, forties, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, lefties, legalities, liabilities, liberties, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, Montes, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, nineties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, panties, parities, parties, patties, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, pretties, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, properties, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, seventies, shanties, similarities, sixties, societies, sororities, sorties, subcommittees, technicalities, thirties, tonalities, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vigilantes, vulnerabilities, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airlifts, fetialis, filiates, filister, frailest, ratifies. | |
-2 letters: airiest, airlift, fairest, fairies, falters, fetials, filiate, filters, firelit, laities, lifters, realist, retails, saltier, saltire, siltier, slatier, stifler, tailers, trifles. | |
-3 letters: afrits, afters, airest, alerts, alters, ariels, artels, estral, falser, falsie, falter, farles, faster, ferial, ferias, festal, fetial, fiesta, filers, filets, filter, flairs, flares, fliers, fliest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: laticifers. | |
+2 letters: fibrillates, formalities, fragilities, frugalities, infiltrates. | |
+3 letters: felicitators, franklinites, friabilities, fritillaries, frontalities, reinflations. | |
+4 letters: defibrillates, differentials, familiarities, farcicalities, formabilities, informalities, materfamilias, parfocalities, paterfamilias. | |
+5 letters: antifederalist, antifilibuster, artificialness, defibrillators, fertilizations, foreseeability, forgeabilities, fractionalizes, frangibilities, interfaculties, microfilaments, overinflations, patresfamilias, proliferations, superficiality. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 52 41 49 4C 54 49 45 53 |
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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 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001100 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R A I L T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 0041 0049 004C 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)405235434654433953 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kinesisk |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, tysk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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