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FURCA

Date "FURCA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Specialty Definition: FURCA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Furca (See Fossa and Forks.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: FURCA

Specialty definitions using "FURCA": Fossa et Furca. (references)
Etymologies containing "FURCA": Postfurca. (references)
Non-English Usage: "FURCA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (a fork, fork, pitchfork, pitchfork /narrow pass).

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Commercial Usage: FURCA

DomainTitle

Books

  • A review of the mechanisms for movement of the caudal furca in the Family Paramesochridae (Copepoda Harpacticoida), with a description of a new species of Kliopsyllus Kunz (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: FURCA

"FURCA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FURCA" is used about 3 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 (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FURCA

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

furca

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: FURCA

Derivations

Words beginning with "FURCA": furcate, furcated, furcates, furcating, furcation, furcations. (additional references)

Words containing "FURCA": bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcates, bifurcating, bifurcation, bifurcations, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcates, trifurcating, trifurcation, trifurcations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FURCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-r-u"

-1 letter: curf.

-2 letters: arc, arf, car, cur, far, fur.

-3 letters: ar, fa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-f-r-u"
 

+1 letter: carful, fulcra.

 

+2 letters: careful, carfuls, chaufer, facture, facular, farceur, fractur, fractus, fumaric, furcate, furcula, furnace, futharc, rackful, surface.

 

+3 letters: chaufers, chauffer, factures, farceurs, farouche, fracture, fracturs, francium, furcated, furcates, furcraea, furculae, furcular, furnaced, furnaces, futharcs, graceful, rackfuls, scrofula, surfaced, surfacer, surfaces, wrackful.

 

+4 letters: bifurcate, carefully, carrefour, chauffers, chauffeur, cofeature, creampuff, fiduciary, formulaic, fractious, fractured, fractures, franciums, fruitcake, fumarolic, funicular, furcating, furcation, furcraeas, furnacing, jackfruit, rechauffe, resurface, scrofulas, surfacers, surfacing, surficial.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FURCA


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

46 55 52 43 41

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 01010101 01010010 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#82 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0052 0043 0041

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

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

4055523735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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