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FRIBLE

Definition: FRIBLE

FRIBLE

Adjective

1. Frivolous; trifling; sily.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Frible \Frib"le\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression frivole, from Latin expression frivolus, or English frippery.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: FRIBLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-l-r"

-1 letter: birle, brief, fiber, fibre, filer, flier, liber, lifer, rifle.

-2 letters: bier, bile, birl, brie, file, fire, lief, lier, life, lire, reif, riel, rife, rile.

-3 letters: bel, elf, fer, fib, fie, fil, fir, ire, lei, lib, lie, reb, ref, rei, rib, rif.

-4 letters: be, bi, ef, el, er, if, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-i-l-r"
 

+1 letter: briefly, febrile, filbert, friable, fribble.

 

+2 letters: afebrile, balefire, barflies, belfried, belfries, filberts, fireable, fireball, flabbier, forcible, forelimb, fribbled, fribbler, fribbles.

 

+3 letters: balefires, briefless, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, flybridge, forelimbs, frangible, fribblers, inferable, riflebird.

 

+4 letters: affirmable, brickfield, brownfield, clofibrate, fiberfills, fiberglass, fibrefills, fibreglass, fibrillate, filibuster, filterable, fireballer, flybridges, forgivable, formidable, inferrible, pilferable, profitable, refillable, riflebirds, umbellifer, verifiable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FRIBLE


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

46 52 49 42 4C 45

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 01010010 01001001 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0049 0042 004C 0045

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

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

405243364639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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