NAVIES

Definitions: NAVIES

NAVIES

Plural

1. Of Navy

2. Of Navvy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "NAVIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: NAVIES

English words defined with "NAVIES": Keelhaul. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NAVIES": Keel-hauling. (references)

Etymologies containing "NAVIES": Navvy, Navy. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Civil War Navies, 1855-1883 (U.S. Navy Warship Series) (reference) How Navies Fight: The U.S. Navy and Its Allies (reference) Narrow Seas, Small Navies, and Fat Merchantmen: Naval Strategies for the 1990s (reference) Navies and Shipbuilding Industries: The Strained Symbiosis (reference) Navies in History (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	India	The navy is much smaller, but it is relatively well-armed among Indian Ocean navies, operating one aircraft carrier, 41 surface combatants, and 18 submarines. (references)
	United Arab Emirates	It became known as the Pirate Coast as raiders based there harassed foreign shipping, although both European and Arab navies patrolled the area from the 17th century into the 19th century. (references)
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"NAVIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NAVIES" is used about 54 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)	100%	54	46,184

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "NAVIES": war-navies.
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Language		Translations for "NAVIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Flotten (fleets). (various references)

Pig Latin		aviesnay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"NAVIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avias, avies, inavase, Nabie, nabis, nadie, naevae, Nafis, Nagines, naiea, naise, naivest, naivet, Narvaez, navarese, Navas, Naveen, navexs, navie, navied, navis, navise, navke, n'avons, navvie, navvies, nazies, niveaux, nivis, novis, nuies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "NAVIES" (pronounced nā"vēz)
4	-ā" v ē z	Davies, gravies.
3	-v ē z	anchovies, chevies, heavies, levees, levies, movies.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: naives, savine.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: anise, avens, naevi, naive, naves, savin, vanes, veins, vinas, vines.
	-2 letters: ains, anes, anis, aves, nave, nevi, sain, sane, save, sine, vain, vane, vans, vase, vein, vena, vies, vina, vine, visa, vise.
	-3 letters: ain, ais, ane, ani, ave, ens, ins, nae, sae, sea, sei, sen, sin, van, vas, via, vie, vis.
	-4 letters: ae, ai, an, as, en, es, in, is, na, ne, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: alevins, evanish, evasion, invades, naivest, natives, navvies, ravines, savines, vahines, vainest, valines, vinasse.
	+2 letters: aversion, avidness, deviants, enravish, envisage, evasions, flavines, invaders, invasive, inweaves, javelins, leavings, naivetes, ravelins, sanative, sheaving, sleaving, spavined, vaccines, vainness, vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vanities, veganism, ventails, vervains, vesicant, vesuvian, vinasses, vinegars, vintages, waviness.
	+3 letters: agentives, aliveness, anchovies, ascensive, aventails, aversions, avianizes, bivalents, deviances, donatives, enslaving, envisaged, envisages, evanished, evanishes, expansive, galvanise, grievants, heaviness, innovates, intervals, invertase, invocates, javelinas, knaveries, naiveness, naiveties, navicerts, navigates, negatives, pervasion, ravelings, ravenings, reinvades, reshaving, shaveling, slavering, sylvanite, tantivies, unadvised, univalves, universal, vacancies, vaccinees, valencias, valencies, valerians, valiances, vandalise, vanishers, vapidness, variances, varnished, varnisher, varnishes, veganisms, venations, venetians, veratrins, veronicas, versional, vesicants, vesuvians, vexations, vibrances, vicinages, vinaceous, vineyards, viniferas, vintagers, vitamines, voidances, vulcanise.
	+4 letters: activeness, adenovirus, advections, adventives, advisement, antinovels, antivenins, avidnesses, avoidances, canvaslike, carnivores, constative, crevassing, deviancies, deviations, drawknives, elevations, engravings, enravished, enravishes, envisaging, estivating, estivation, evanescing, evangelism, evangelist, evanishing, evocations, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, grapevines, grievances, harvesting, incurvates, innervates, insolvable, intervales, invasively, invertases, investable, jackknives, lavishness, leavenings, leviathans, lifesaving, narratives, nativeness, nativities, negativism, negativist, nervations, nonnatives, nonpassive, novitiates, novocaines, oversaving, overstrain, overtrains, pervasions, ravellings, ravishment, reinvasion, revanchism, revanchist, riverbanks, savoriness, scavenging, serviceman, shavelings, shinleaves, sovranties, starveling, survivance, sylvanites, tentatives, timesaving, transitive, traversing, univalents, universals, unravished, vaccinates, vagrancies, vainnesses, valentines, valiancies, vandalised, vandalises, vandalizes, vanitories, vanquished, vanquisher, vanquishes, varnishers, venalities, venialness, ventifacts, ventilates, veratrines, verdancies, vernalizes, vernations, vernissage, vesicating, vibrancies, videolands, vigilances, vigilantes, villainess, villainies, villenages, vindicates, vinegarish, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanizes, wavinesses.
	+5 letters: abusiveness, adventitias, adventurism, adventurist, advertising, advisements, aestivating, aestivation, alivenesses, amativeness, ambiversion, animadverts, anniversary, antislavery, antitussive, aventurines, cadaverines, cantilevers, caregivings, concavities, connivances, constatives, contrastive, covalencies, covariances, derivations, designative, devastating, devastation, devotionals, drivetrains, eigenvalues, eluviations, enervations, enravishing, equivalents, estivations, evacuations, evaluations, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, evasiveness, everlasting, excavations, expansively, expansivity, exuviations, galvanizers, heavenliest, heavinesses, inactivates, inadvisable, inchoatives, indicatives, initiatives, inobservant, insinuative, instigative, interleaves, interweaves, intravenous, invaginates, invalidates, invariables, invariances, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, inviolacies, levigations, levitations, lifesavings, livableness, lovemakings, maidservant, margravines, massiveness, misaverring, misbehaving, naivenesses, negativisms, negativists, nominatives, nonabrasive, nonadhesive, nondeviants, noninvasive, novaculites, observation, overactions, overanxious, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overstrains, overtasking, papaverines, passiveness, personative, preinvasion, previsional, privateness, ravishments, reinvasions, relevancies, renovations, reservation, revanchisms, revanchists, revelations, reversional, revisionary, revocations, sansevieria, shivareeing, slavishness, starvelings, suasiveness, subinterval, substantive, surveillant, survivances, syncopative, transceiver, translative, travertines, travestying, unadvisedly, unassertive, universally, unvarnished, vacationers, vaginitides, vainglories, valiantness, vanquishers, vapidnesses, variousness, vasopressin, vaticinates, vegetarians, vegetations, venerations, ventilators, vernissages, vesuvianite, vibraphones, vicariances, villanelles, vinblastine, vineyardist, visionaries, vivandieres, voluntaries, vulcanisate, vulcanizers, vulneraries.
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