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KAKISTOCRACY

Definition: KAKISTOCRACY

KAKISTOCRACY

Noun

1. Government by the worst men.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Kakistocracy \Kak`is*toc"ra*cy\, noun. [Greek expression worst to rule.]. (Websters 1913)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: KAKISTOCRACY

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

kakistocracy

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: KAKISTOCRACY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-k-k-o-r-s-t-y"

-3 letters: coatracks.

-4 letters: acrostic, cariocas, caryatic, coatrack, isocracy, scarcity, stockcar.

-5 letters: acrotic, arctics, arkosic, caracks, carioca, caritas, carsick, karstic, ostiary, ostraca, satyric, tricksy, troikas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KAKISTOCRACY


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

4B 41 4B 49 53 54 4F 43 52 41 43 59

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)

01001011 01000001 01001011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01000011 01010010 01000001 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#65 &#75 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0041 004B 0049 0053 0054 004F 0043 0052 0041 0043 0059

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

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

453545435354493752353759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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