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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Heavies (The), means the heavy cavalry, which consists of men of greater build and height than Lancers and Hussars. (See Light Troops.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "HEAVIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.48% of the time. "HEAVIES" is used about 66 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) | 98.48% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
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 |
brand new heavies | 93 |
brand heavies lyrics new | 12 |
heavies | 10 |
brand discography heavies new | 3 |
brand heavies new stop t we won | 3 |
black diamond heavies | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HEAVIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | am schwersten. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | vastag gyapjú alsóruha, nehéz tüzérség, nehéz dragonyosok, jéger alsóruha. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eavieshay yün çamaşır (woolly, wooly), kışlık iç çamaşırı. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HEAVIES": heaviest. (additional references) | |
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"HEAVIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beavises, havis, Healis, heavie, heavieu, Heavside, heebies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HEAVIES" (pronounced he"vēz) |
| 4 | -e" v ē z | chevies, levees, levies. |
| 3 | -v ē z | anchovies, Davies, gravies, movies, navies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-s-v" | |
-1 letter: heaves, shavie, sheave. | |
-2 letters: eaves, haves, heave, hives, shave, shiva, shive, sieve. | |
-3 letters: aves, ease, eave, eves, haes, have, hies, hive, save, shea, shiv, vase, vees, vies, visa, vise. | |
-4 letters: ais, ash, ave, eve, hae, has, hes, hie, his, sae, sea, see, sei, sha, she, vas, vee, via, vie, vis. | |
-5 letters: ae, ah, ai, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-s-v" | |
+1 letter: achieves, adhesive, heaviest, shivaree. | |
+2 letters: achievers, adhesives, chivarees, evanished, evanishes, heaviness, misbehave, shivareed, shivarees. | |
+3 letters: adhesively, cavefishes, chevaliers, echeverias, enravished, enravishes, exhaustive, misbehaved, misbehaver, misbehaves, shinleaves. | |
+4 letters: harvesttime, heavenliest, heavinesses, misbehavers, nonadhesive, outachieves, shivareeing. | |
+5 letters: achievements, adhesiveness, apprehensive, czarevitches, exhaustively, harvesttimes, heavenliness, heavyweights, hyperactives, lavishnesses, overachieves, overemphasis, shrievalties, venographies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 41 56 49 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- ...- .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01000001 01010110 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E A V I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0041 0056 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)42393556433953 |
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