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Definition: SALLIES |
SALLIESPlural1. Of Sally |
Date "SALLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: SALLIES |
| English words defined with "SALLIES": Contravallation, Coupure ♦ Epigrammatical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SALLIES": Sallyport. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sallies historier (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "SALLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SALLIES" is used about 16 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) | 75% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SALLIES" 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 |
| Sallies | Last name | 100 | 78,817 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Sallies Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Language | Translations for "SALLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 突围 (sally). (various references) | |
German | bricht auf (decamps). (various references) | |
Korean | 출격 (sally, sortie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alliessay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SALLIES": misallies. (additional references) | |
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"SALLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asellio, lallies, salie, saliens, Sallates, Sallee, Salles, sallie, Sallois, sallus, salmes, salries, salties, Saulieu, scallies, Sillees, Sillie, Sollis, sollise, Sollys, vallies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SALLIES" (pronounced sa"lēz) |
| 4 | -a" l ē z | alleys, galleys, rallies, tallies, valleys. |
| 3 | -l ē z | alleles, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bellies, bullies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jellies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, pulleys, subassemblies, subfamilies, tamales, trolleys, volleys, weeklies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: aisles, allies, lassie, lisles. | |
-2 letters: aisle, ileal, isles, lases, lisle, sails, sales, seals, sells, sials, sills, sisal. | |
-3 letters: ails, ales, alls, ells, ilea, ills, isle, lase, lass, leal, leas, leis, less, lies, sail, sale, sall, sals, seal, seas, seis, sell, sels, sial, sill. | |
-4 letters: ail, ais, ale, all, als, ass, ell, els, ess, ill, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, sis. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, as, el, es, is, la, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: ainsells, loessial, mailless, salliers, sensilla, tailless, tallises. | |
+2 letters: aimlessly, alkalises, allelisms, allspices, ballsiest, bastilles, challises, idealless, legalises, legalisms, legalists, localises, misallies, mislabels, palliasse, pastilles, salesgirl, selamliks, sensillae, shigellas, sidewalls, spadilles, spillages, trailless. | |
+3 letters: allergists, assailable, celestials, climaxless, fallfishes, fusillades, galliasses, globalises, grisailles, installers, landslides, legislates, medallists, oscillates, painlessly, palletises, palliasses, pallidness, pastellist, pillarless, reinstalls, sailplanes, salesgirls, satellites, signallers, silkalines, sinsemilla, slimeballs, squalliest, stairwells, tailslides, tasselling, villainess. | |
+4 letters: allegorises, allegorists, allosteries, amaryllises, aspergillus, assimilable, brainlessly, callosities, cleanliness, cranesbills, crystallise, damselflies, deshabilles, dishabilles, dissolvable, dissyllable, distillates, disyllables, escadrilles, espadrilles, essentially, faithlessly, gladioluses, illustrates, klebsiellas, legislators, liberalises, liberalisms, liberalists, liberalness, likableness, literalisms, literalists, literalness, livableness, logicalness, lyricalness, millesimals, millstreams, oligoclases, pastellists, pillowcases, pliableness, quesadillas, sailplaners, salesladies, salicylates, seguidillas, seismically, semilethals, sensorially, sheathbills, shillelaghs, sinsemillas, stainlessly, syllabaries, syllabifies, volatilises, wearilessly. | |
+5 letters: allusiveness, aquarellists, artillerists, aspergillums, assaultively, bimetallisms, bimetallists, blacklisters, bristletails, classifiable, clericalisms, clericalists, colonialness, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallizes, detasselling, disenthralls, disloyalties, dissyllables, drillmasters, hallucinoses, hollandaises, installments, legislations, legislatives, legislatures, mesalliances, misalliances, misallocates, miscellanies, miscellanist, neoclassical, osmolalities, palatialness, pallidnesses, parallelisms, philatelists, plagioclases, reliableness, salabilities, scintillates, selaginellas, shellackings, sillimanites, subsatellite, surveillants, syllabicates, symmetallism, systemically, tessellating, tessellation, trisyllables, unassailable, valvulitises, villainesses, violableness, volatileness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 4C 4C 49 45 53 |
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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)01010011 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A L L I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 004C 004C 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)53354646433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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