PHILLIS

"PHILLIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the foliage".

Date "PHILLIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Specialty Definition: PHILLIS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Phillis A play written in Spanish by Lupercio Leonardo of Argensola. (See Don Quixote, vol. iii. p. 70.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: PHILLIS

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Phillis Was Not Dressed to Receive Callers (1899)
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Commercial Usage: PHILLIS

Domain	Title
Books	Cousin Phillis and Other Tales (The World's Classics) (reference) Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley, Containing Her Complete Poetical Works, Numerous Letters and a Complete Biography of This Famous Poet of a Centur (reference) Phillis Wheatley, America's First Black Poetess (Americans All) (reference) African-American Poets: Phillis Wheatley Through Melvin B. Tolson (Modern Critical Views) (reference) Bid the Vassal Soar: Interpretive Essays on the Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (Ca. 1753-1784 and George Moses Horton) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: PHILLIS

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: PHILLIS

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Bring me Phillis crowned with bluebells, and add to her a hundred thousand francs a year.
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Usage Frequency: PHILLIS

"PHILLIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHILLIS" is used about 141 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)	100%	141	26,682

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

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Name Usage Frequency: PHILLIS

The following table summarizes the usage of "PHILLIS" 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
Phillis	First name Female	6,000	1,183
Phillis	Last name	400	21,994
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: PHILLIS

"PHILLIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the foliage".

The following table summarizes names related to "PHILLIS."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Philis	Female	English	Phyllis
Phillis	Female	English	Phyllis
Phyliss	Female	English	Phyllis
Phyllida	Female	English	Phyllis
Phyllis	Female	English	N/A
Phyllis	Female	German	N/A
Phyllis	Female	Greek Mythology	N/A
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Expression: PHILLIS

Expression using "PHILLIS": Phillis Wheatley. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHILLIS

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
phillis wheatley	127
phillis diller	16
phillis wheatly	12
phillis	9
phillis picture wheatley	8
phillis hyman	6
biography phillis wheatley	4
phillis davis	4
bonnie phillis	4
moral phillis poem religious wheatley	3
by phillis poem wheatley	3
phillis poem wheatley	3
morris phillis	2
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Modern Translation: PHILLIS

Language		Translations for "PHILLIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		пастушка;официантка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PHILLIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-i-l-l-p-s"
	-2 letters: hills, pilis, pills, shill, spill.
	-3 letters: hili, hill, hips, ills, lips, lisp, phis, pili, pill, pish, ship, sill, slip.
	-4 letters: hip, his, ill, lip, lis, phi, pis, psi, sip.
	-5 letters: hi, is, li, pi, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-i-l-l-p-s"
	+3 letters: blimpishly, lyophilise, phallicism.
	+4 letters: lyophilised, lyophilises, lyophilizes, phallicisms, philatelies, philatelist, philologies, philologist.
	+5 letters: ailurophiles, bibliophiles, lyophilising, lyophilizers, philatelists, phillumenist, philologists.
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