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Date "MERROW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
"MERROW" is a common misspelling or typo for: marrow, morrow. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Merrow A mermaid, believed by Irish fishermen to forebode a coming storm. There are male merrows, but no word to designate them. (Irish, Muruadh or Murrûghach, from muir, the sea, and oigh, a maid.) "It was rather annoying to Jack that, though living in a place where the merrows were as plenty as lobsters, he never could get a right view of one."- W. B. Yeates: Fairy and Folk Tales, p. 63. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "MERROW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "MERROW" is used about 6 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) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MERROW" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Merrow | Last name | 1,000 | 16,823 |
| 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 |
merrow | 16 |
jane merrow | 7 |
machine merrow | 6 |
merrow sewing machine | 4 |
maquinas merrow | 2 |
the merrow report | 2 |
john merrow | 2 |
merrow serger | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wormer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: mower, ormer, rower. | |
-2 letters: meow, more, omer, wore, worm. | |
-3 letters: err, mew, mor, mow, ore, owe, rem, roe, rom, row, woe. | |
-4 letters: em, er, me, mo, oe, om, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: earworm, wormers, wormier. | |
+2 letters: dewormer, earworms, fireworm, marrowed, overwarm, wareroom, wireworm. | |
+3 letters: dewormers, earthworm, fireworms, framework, grewsomer, heartworm, microbrew, miterwort, mitrewort, overwarms, screwworm, warerooms, warmonger, wherefrom, wireworms, worriment, worrisome. | |
+4 letters: cankerworm, dreamworld, earthworms, farmworker, formalwear, frameworks, heartworms, marrowbone, masterwork, microbrews, miterworts, mitreworts, overwarmed, palmerworm, screwworms, threadworm, timberwork, timeworker, warmongers, wordmonger, worriments. | |
+5 letters: cankerworms, dreamworlds, farmworkers, marrowbones, masterworks, metalworker, microbrewer, overwarming, palmerworms, threadworms, timberworks, timeworkers, whoremaster, whoremonger, wordmongers, worrisomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 52 52 4F 57 |
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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)01001101 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E R R O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 0052 0052 004F 0057 |
| 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)473952524957 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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