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 | In flight near Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 10 April 1942. The planes are Bureau # 3976 (marked "F-1), flown by VF-3 Commanding Officer Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, and Bureau # 3986, flown by Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare. Both of these aircraft were lost while assigned to Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2) with USS Lexington (CV-2), during the Battle of Coral Sea in May 1942. Photographed by Photographer Second Class H.S. Fawcett. Credit: NAVY. |  | At Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, on 29 May 1942, with ground crewmen folding the starboard wing. On 4 June 1942, in the Battle of Midway, this plane was flown by Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, VF-3's Commanding Officer, during the afternoon combat air patrol defending USS Yorktown (CV-5), wherein Thach probably shot down Lieutenant Joichi Tomonaga, leader of the attacking Japanese torpedo planes. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed in the cockpit of an F4F "Wildcat" fighter, 10 April 1942, while commanding Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3). Japanese flags on the plane commemorate "kills" Thach made while flying from USS Lexington (CV-2) on 20 February 1942. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "THACH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THACH" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "THACH" 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 |
| Thach | Last name | 1,000 | 9,622 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
uss thach | 9 |
thach | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "THACH": toothache, toothaches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hatch. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-t" | |
-1 letter: chat, hath, tach. | |
-2 letters: act, cat, hah, hat. | |
-3 letters: ah, at, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-t" | |
+1 letter: chetah, thatch. | |
+2 letters: chaloth, cheetah, chetahs, hatched, hatchel, hatcher, hatches, hatchet, thatchy. | |
+3 letters: challoth, chatchka, chatchke, cheetahs, chitchat, chutzpah, ethnarch, halachot, hatcheck, hatchels, hatchers, hatchery, hatchets, hatching, hatchway, heptarch, hyacinth, nuthatch, phthalic, thatched, thatcher, thatches, thearchy, whinchat. | |
+4 letters: chatchkas, chatchkes, chitchats, chthonian, chutzpahs, ethnarchs, haircloth, halachoth, hatchable, hatchback, hatcheled, hatchings, hatchling, hatchment, hatchways, heartache, heptarchs, heptarchy, hyacinths, shtetlach, thatchers, thatchier, thatching, thickhead, toothache, unhatched, washcloth, whinchats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 41 43 48 |
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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)01010100 01001000 01000001 01000011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H A C H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0041 0043 0048 |
| 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)5442353742 |
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