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ORELLANA

Date "ORELLANA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)


Specialty Definition: ORELLANA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Orellana The river Amazon in America: so called from Orellana, lieutenant of Pizarro. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: ORELLANA

English words defined with "ORELLANA": ArnottoRocoa. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: ORELLANA

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Ecuador

For example, in October 2000, unidentified, armed individuals kidnaped a group of foreign oil workers near Pompeya in Orellana province. (references)

Guatemala

He suggested that General Robles had "constituted himself as a public accuser against the Guatemalan Army" and requested "all information about his political and social leanings and his links to international organizations and other such self-proclaimed human rights defenders." Once the incident became public, Foreign Minister Gabriel Orellana called for Moreira Lopez to step down. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

The U.S. Embassy in Quito advises against travel to the northeastern sector of the country, especially the provinces of Sucumbios, Carchi, and Orellana that border on Colombia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ORELLANA

"ORELLANA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ORELLANA" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%4175,879
Noun (singular)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: ORELLANA

The following table summarizes the usage of "ORELLANA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
OrellanaLast name3,0004,109
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ORELLANA

Expression using "ORELLANA": Bixa Orellana. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ORELLANA

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

roberto orellana

42

bixa orellana

25

orellana

8

joaquin orellana

7

francisco de orellana

5

bija bixa orellana

4

argentina bixa orellana

3

biografia joaquin orellana

3

guatemala joaquin orellana

3

gladys orellana

3

biografia de joaquin orellana

3

achiote bixa orellana semilla

2

autor carlos libro orellana

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ORELLANA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-n-o-r"

-2 letters: areola, enroll, loaner, loreal, reloan.

-3 letters: alane, alone, anear, anole, areal, arena, enrol, learn, llano, loner, loral, loran, nerol, renal.

-4 letters: aeon, aero, alae, alan, alar, aloe, anal, anoa, area, earl, earn, elan, enol, lane, leal, lean, lear, leno, loan, lone, lore, lorn, near, noel, olea, olla, oral, orle, rale, real, roan, role.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-n-o-r"
 

+2 letters: relational.

 

+3 letters: nonparallel, rallentando.

 

+4 letters: alliteration, nonparallels, normalizable, ornamentally, reallocating, reallocation, relationally, tetragonally.

 

+5 letters: alliterations, anaerobically, contralateral, correlational, explanatorily, explorational, lowerclassman, mineralogical, nomenclatural, operationally, radiolabeling, reallocations, recalculation, ventrolateral.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ORELLANA


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

4F 52 45 4C 4C 41 4E 41

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0052 0045 004C 004C 0041 004E 0041

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

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

4952394646354835

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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