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PRIE

Definition: PRIE

PRIE

Intransitive verb

1. To pry.

Noun

1. The plant privet.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PRIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

"PRIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: pie, price, pride, pried, prier, prime, prize, pry.


Crosswords: PRIE

Etymologies containing "PRIE": Privet. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PRIE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (beg, prays).

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Commercial Usage: PRIE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Official 2003 Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins (Official Blackbook Prie Guide to United States Coins) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: PRIE

"PRIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "PRIE" is used about 4 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)50%2245,945
Noun (singular)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expressions: PRIE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "PRIE": prie-dieu, prie-dieux.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PRIE

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

prie dieu

15

erotske prie

4

dieux prie

2

prie

2

en je prie vous

2

amour belle je ma prie vous

2

amour belle je joyeux prie retenir vous

2

amour belle je joyeux nous pour prie retenir vous

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

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Modern Translation: PRIE

Language Translations for "PRIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

stoyl padjeragh (prayer-stool, prie-dieu). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iepray

   

Spanish

  

pl. de prie-dieu (prie-dieux), reclinatorio (prayer stool, prie-dieu). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

аналой (lectern, prie-dieu, reading desk). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PRIE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PRIE": pried, priedieu, priedieus, priedieux, prier, priers, pries, priest, priested, priestess, priestesses, priesthood, priesthoods, priesting, priestlier, priestliest, priestliness, priestlinesses, priestly, priests. (additional references)

Words containing "PRIE": archpriest, archpriests, coproprietor, coproprietors, coproprietorship, coproprietorships, gossipries, improprieties, impropriety, nonproprietaries, nonproprietary, proprietaries, proprietary, proprieties, proprietor, proprietorial, proprietors, proprietorship, proprietorships, proprietress, proprietresses, propriety, reprieval, reprievals, reprieve, reprieved, reprieves, reprieving, sprier, spriest. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PRIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peri, pier, ripe.

Words within the letters "e-i-p-r"

-1 letter: ire, per, pie, rei, rep, rip.

-2 letters: er, pe, pi, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r"
 

+1 letter: cripe, gripe, peril, peris, piers, piker, piper, plier, price, pride, pried, prier, pries, prime, prise, prize, redip, repin, riped, ripen, riper, ripes, speir, spier, spire, tripe, viper, wiper.

 

+2 letters: aspire, ceriph, cipher, copier, cripes, diaper, dipper, dopier, empire, ephori, epimer, esprit, euripi, expire, expiry, gipper, griped, griper, gripes, gripey, grippe, hipper, hirple, impure, jimper, kipper, limper, lipper, lisper, mopier, nipper, orpine, paired, palier, panier, pardie, paries, peerie, perdie, pereia, perils, period, perish, permit, picker, piecer, pierce, pikers, pilfer, pincer, pinder, pinery, pinger, pinier, pinker, pinner, pipers, pipier, pirate, pisser, pitier, pliers, poiser, pokier, praise, precis, prefix, prelim, premie, premix, priced, pricer, prices, pricey, prided, prides, priers, priest, primed, primer, primes, prince, prised, prises, privet, prized, prizer, prizes, protei, pterin, punier, purine, pyrite, rapier, rapine, recipe, redips, redipt, repaid, repair, repine, repins, reship, rimple, ripely, ripens, ripest, ripped, ripper, ripple, ropier, simper, sipper, sniper, speirs, spicer, spider, spiers, spiker, spirea, spired, spirem, spires, sprier, sprite, stripe, tipper, trepid, tripes, triple, typier, umpire, unripe, uprise, vipers, wipers, zipper.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRIE


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

50 52 49 45

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)

01010000 01010010 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 0045

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

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

50524339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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