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SAUF

Definitions: SAUF

SAUF

Adjective

1. Safe.

Conjunction & preposition

1. Save; except.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

 

Crosswords: SAUF

Non-English Usage: "SAUF" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (apart from, barring, besides, beyond, but, except, except for, excepting, excluding, safe, save, short of, unless).

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Modern Usage: SAUF

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sauf dimanches et fêtes (1977)

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

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Commercial Usage: SAUF

DomainTitle

Books

  • Le déshonneur est sauf! : dessins de la guerre d'Algérie (reference)

  • L'honneur est sauf : prêtre, officier en Algérie (reference)

  • Sain et sauf (reference)

  • Sauf erreur : entretiens (reference)

  • Sauf vot' respect : lettre à René Lévesque (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: SAUF

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Les Préservatifs Préservent De Tout. De Tout, Sauf De L'Amour.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAUF

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

sauf

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SAUF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-s-u"

-1 letter: fas, sau.

-2 letters: as, fa, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-s-u"
 

+1 letter: fauns, favus, snafu, sulfa, tufas.

 

+2 letters: chufas, famous, fanums, fauces, faulds, faults, faunas, fauves, feuars, flatus, frauds, frusta, furans, fusain, luffas, quaffs, shaduf, snafus, sulfas, unsafe.

 

+3 letters: armfuls, armsful, ausform, bagfuls, bagsful, bashful, canfuls, cansful, capfuls, carfuls, earfuls, easeful, famulus, faquirs, fatuous, faucals, faucets, fauvism, fauvist, favours, favuses, ferulas, fibulas, fistula, flaunts, fractus, fuchsia, fugatos, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, fungals, funkias, furanes, fusains, fustian, guffaws, hatfuls, hatsful, jarfuls, jarsful, lapfuls, outfast, panfuls, refusal, sackful, sfumato, shadufs, snafued, suffari, sulfate, sunfast, surface, swayful, upwafts, vatfuls.

 

+4 letters: afflatus, affluxes, affusion, alfaquis, aquifers, argufies, ausforms, basinful, boastful, boatfuls, buffalos, busulfan, cagefuls, chaufers, defaults, defrauds, earmuffs, fabulist, fabulous, factious, factures, fadeouts, failures, faitours, fallouts, famously, farceurs, fashious, fastuous, fatigues, fauvisms, fauvists, feastful, features, feluccas, fistulae, fistular, fistulas, flaneurs, flareups, flashgun, flatuses, flautist, flavours, formulas, foulards, frabjous, fracturs, fraenums, frakturs, fraughts, fuchsias, fumarase, funerals, funfairs, furanose, furcates, furnaces, fuselage, fustians, futharcs, futharks, gauffers, ghastful, glassful, hafniums, handfuls, handsful, hasteful, hausfrau, infamous, infaunas, mudflaps, mudflats, outfaces, outfalls, outfasts, outfawns, outfeast, pailfuls, pailsful, quaffers, rackfuls, refusals, refutals, ruffians, sackfuls, sacksful, scrofula, sfumatos, shameful, snafuing, spadeful, stageful, subframe, subshaft, suffaris, suffixal, sufflate, suffrage, sulfated, sulfates, superfan, surfable, surfaced, surfacer, surfaces, surfboat, tankfuls, tartufes, tasteful, trayfuls, unfaiths, unfamous, unfasten, unflashy, unifaces, unsafely, unsafety, updrafts, waftures, wamefous, wamefuls, wasteful.

 

+5 letters: affluents, affusions, alfaquins, argufiers, ausformed, avifaunas, awfullest, awfulness, bashfully, basinfuls, basketful, bisulfate, bouffants, buffaloes, busulfans, calctufas, calctuffs, chauffers, dandruffs, dreadfuls, easefully, epifaunas, fabulists, facetious, factotums, faculties, faithfuls, farmhouse, fascicule, fasciculi, fatuities, fatuously, faubourgs, faultiest, faultless, faunistic, fauteuils, favourers, feudalism, feudalist, feudaries, figurants, filatures, flambeaus, flameouts, flashbulb, flashcube, flashguns, flashtube, flaunters, flautists, fluidrams, fluorspar, flushable, fluxgates, focusable, fountains, fractious, fractures, franciums, frauleins, freakouts, fruitages, frustrate, fugacious, fullbacks, fullfaces, fumarases, fumarates, fumaroles, fumigants, fumigates, furanoses, furcraeas, furfurals, furfurans, fuselages, fusillade, fustigate, glassfuls, handcuffs, hausfraus, ladlefuls, langlaufs, masterful, nefarious, obfuscate, outfables, outfasted, outfeasts, outflanks, perfusate, platefuls, platesful, postfault, puffballs, qualifies, resurface, safeguard, scrofulas, spadefuls, squawfish, stagefuls, starfruit, subfamily, subframes, subshafts, sufflated, sufflates, suffocate, suffragan, suffrages, sugarloaf, sulfatase, sulfating, sulfonate, superfans, superfarm, superfast, supersafe, surfacers, surfacing, surfboard, surfboats, surficial, tablefuls, tablesful, tartuffes, trainfuls, transfuse, tufaceous, turbofans, ultrafast, ultrasafe, ultrasoft, unfairest, unfastens, vouchsafe.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SAUF


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

53 41 55 46

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)

01010011 01000001 01010101 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#85 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0055 0046

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

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

53355540

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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