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"HYLAS" is a plural of: hyla. |
Date "HYLAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hylas A boy beloved by Hercules, carried off by the nymphs while drawing water from a fountain in Mysia. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "HYLAS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "HYLAS" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (plural) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | 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 |
hylas | 18 |
hylas yacht | 13 |
hylas and the nymph | 4 |
hylas spiti tou | 3 |
boat hylas sail | 2 |
49 hylas | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words containing "HYLAS": methylase, methylases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shaly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: ashy, hays, hyla, lash, lays, shay, slay. | |
-2 letters: als, ash, ays, has, hay, las, lay, sal, say, sha, shy, sly, yah. | |
-3 letters: ah, al, as, ay, ha, la, sh, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: flashy, plashy, rashly, shaley, shoaly. | |
+2 letters: aliyahs, alphyls, apishly, bashlyk, brashly, chlamys, clayish, eyelash, ghastly, harshly, hastily, hyalins, hymnals, ladyish, lazyish, shadfly, shadily, shakily, shapely, sharply, splashy. | |
+3 letters: aguishly, bashlyks, charleys, chastely, flashily, garishly, halcyons, hallways, halyards, haylages, haylofts, hoarsely, holidays, holydays, hyalines, hyalites, hyaloids, jadishly, ladyfish, ladyship, lavishly, lehayims, nylghais, nylghaus, oafishly, phylaxis, physical, rakishly, schmalzy, shabbily, shaggily, shmaltzy, stanchly, stealthy, subphyla, tallyhos, trashily, unflashy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 59 4C 41 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)01001000 01011001 01001100 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H Y L A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0059 004C 0041 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)4259463553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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