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VAIR

Definition: VAIR

VAIR

Noun

1. The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VAIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Vair \Vair\, noun. [French expression vair, from Old French vair, adjective, from Latin expression varius various, variegated. See Various, and compare to Menivel.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: VAIR

English words defined with "VAIR": Counter vairVairy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "VAIR": Glass Slipper. (references)
Etymologies containing "VAIR": MeniverVarious. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VAIR

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: VAIR

"VAIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "VAIR" is used about 5 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 (singular)60%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: VAIR

The following table summarizes the usage of "VAIR" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
VairLast name13059,475
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: VAIR

Expression using "VAIR": Counter vair. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Containing "VAIR": lairs-hairv-lunch-vair-soo.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VAIR

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

vair

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VAIR

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

Manx

  

veir. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airvay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: VAIR

Derivations

Words beginning with "VAIR": vairs. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "VAIR"

Words ending with "air": FLAIR, hair, lair, stair, Wair. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VAIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-r-v"

-1 letter: air, ria, var, via.

-2 letters: ai, ar.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-r-v"
 

+1 letter: aiver, bravi, invar, ravin, rival, vairs, varia, varix, vicar, viral, virga.

 

+2 letters: aivers, arrive, aviary, caviar, gravid, havior, invars, naiver, parvis, pavior, ravine, raving, ravins, ravish, rivage, rivals, savior, trivia, vainer, varied, varier, varies, viator, vicars, virago, virgas, visard, vivary, vizard, waiver, wavier.

 

+3 letters: adviser, advisor, agravic, airwave, aquiver, archive, arrival, arrived, arriver, arrives, avarice, aviator, avodire, avoider, bolivar, braving, carving, caviare, caviars, caviler, chivari, clavier, corvina, craving, gravida, gravies, graving, gravity, havarti, haviors, haviour, heavier, invader, leavier, misaver, nirvana, olivary, ovarial, ovarian, ovaries, ovipara, parvise, paviors, paviour, paviser, prevail, privacy, private, ravelin, ravined, ravines, ravings, ravioli, reavail, reaving, revisal, revival, rivages, rivaled, rivalry, riviera, savarin, saviors, saviour, savvier, travail, travois, trivial, valeric, vampire, variant, variate, varices, variers, variety, variola, variole, various, varmint, varnish, varsity, varying, vastier, vealier, velaria, veritas, vermian, vervain, viators, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato, vicarly, vinegar, viragos, virally, virelai, virelay, viremia, virgate, virtual, visards, viscera, vitamer, vitrain, vivaria, vizards, waivers.

 

+4 letters: abortive, abrasive, acervuli, achiever, advisers, advisors, advisory, aggrieve, airwaves, ambivert, archival, archived, archives, arrivals, arrivers, arriving, avarices, averring, aversion, aversive, averting, aviaries, aviarist, aviators, aviatrix, avicular, avigator, avodires, avoiders, behavior, biovular, bolivars, bravoing, breviary, calvaria, carnival, carvings, cavalier, caviares, cavicorn, cavilers, caviller, cavitary, cervical, chivalry, chivaree, claviers, corrival, corvinas, cravings, creative, cultivar, curative, deprival, derivate, deviator, disfavor, drivable, driveway, durative, enravish, ergative, favoring, favorite, gravidae, gravidas, gravidly, gravitas, graviton, grievant, havartis, havering, haviours, interval, invaders, jarovize, lavalier, lavisher, lawgiver, levirate, livetrap, maravedi, maverick, misavers, navicert, nirvanas, nirvanic, nonrival, nonviral, obviator, omnivora, outrival, ovariole, ovaritis, overlaid, overlain, overpaid, parvises, parvolin, paviours, pavisers, prevails, primeval, privater, privates, proviral, pulvinar, ravaging, raveling, ravelins, ravening, ravigote, ravingly, ravining, raviolis, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, reactive, reavails, reinvade, relative, repaving, reviewal, revisals, revivals, rivaling, rivalled, rivieras, rotative, salivary, savarins, saviours, savorier, savories, savorily, savoring, shivaree, shrieval, starving, stravaig, subvicar, subviral, survival, tovarich, tovarish, tractive, travails, travoise, trivalve, unvaried, vagaries, valerian, valkyrie, valorise, valorize, vampires, vampiric, vanisher, vanitory, vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, variable, variably, variance, variants, variated, variates, varicose, variedly, varietal, variform, variolar, variolas, varioles, variorum, varistor, varmints, varnishy, vasiform, vaultier, velarium, velarize, veracity, veratria, veratrin, verbatim, verbiage, veronica, vertical, vervains, vespiary, vestiary, vexillar, viatores, vibrance, vibrancy, vibrants, vibrated, vibrates, vibrator, vibratos, vibrissa, vicarage, vicarate, vicarial, vicenary, victoria, villager, vinegars, vinegary, vineyard, vinifera, vintager, violater, violator, viragoes, virelais, virelays, viremias, virgates, virginal, viridian, virtuosa, visceral, vitamers, vitiator, vitrains, vivaries, vivarium, vivipara, vizarded, vizirate, vizirial, voracity, vortical, votaries, votarist, wavering.

 

+5 letters: abrasives, accretive, achievers, activator, acyclovir, adverbial, adversity, adverting, advertise, advertize, aggrieved, aggrieves, almsgiver, ambiverts, antiviral, antivirus, approving, arbovirus, archiving, archivist, archivolt, arriviste, assertive, averaging, aversions, aviarists, avigators, avirulent, beavering, behaviors, behaviour, bereaving, bivariate, bolivares, braveries, cabdriver, cadaveric, calvarias, calvaries, calvarium, caregiver, caressive, carnivals, carnivora, carnivore, cavaliers, cavalries, caverning, cavillers, cavorting, charivari, chevalier, chivalric, chivareed, chivarees, chivaried, chivaries, clavering, corrasive, corrivals, covariant, cravening, cultivars, curatives, daredevil, depraving, depravity, deprivals, derivable, derivates, deviators, deviatory, disfavors, driveable, driveways, duratives, echeveria, embracive, engraving, evaporite, farmwives, favorites, favouring, flavoring, flavorist, formative, fricative, grapevine, gravamina, graveling, graveside, gravidity, gravitate, gravities, gravitons, grievance, grievants, hortative, incurvate, innervate, innovator, intervale, intervals, invariant, invertase, involucra, iterative, jarovized, jarovizes, knaveries, larvicide, lavaliere, lavaliers, laveering, lavishers, lawgivers, levirates, leviratic, lifesaver, liveryman, livetraps, lucrative, maravedis, marveling, mavericks, microwave, motivator, myxoviral, narrative, navicerts, navicular, navigator, nervation, nonrivals, normative, obviators, operative, outraving, outrivals, ovarioles, overawing, overclaim, overplaid, overtrain, oviparous, partitive, parvolins, pervading, pervasion, pervasive, portative, prevailed, previable, primavera, privacies, privateer, privately, privatest, privation, privatise, privatism, privative, privatize, proactive, probative, purgative, quadrivia, quavering, radiative, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravigotes, ravishers, ravishing, reavailed, reavowing, reinvaded, reinvades, relatives, reprieval, reshaving, retrieval, revaluing, revamping, revealing, revictual, reviewals, revisable, revivable, reweaving, ribavirin, rivalling, rivalries, rivalrous, riverbank, riverboat, riverward, rotavirus, salivator, savoriest, savourier, savouries, savouring, shivareed, shivarees, slaveries, slavering, stravaigs, subvicars, survivals, timesaver, travailed, traveling, travoises, trivalent, trivalves, trivially, universal, unrivaled, unvarying, uvarovite, vagarious, vainglory, valerians, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorized, valorizes, vampirish, vampirism, vanishers, vaporetti, vaporings, vaporised, vaporises, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vapouring, variables, variances, variating, variation, varicella, varicosed, variegate, varietals, varieties, variorums, variously, varisized, varistors, varnished, varnisher, varnishes, varooming, varsities, varyingly, vectorial, vehicular, velarized, velarizes, venireman, veracious, verapamil, veratrias, veratrine, veratrins, verbalism, verbalist, verbalize, verbiages, veridical, veritable, veritably, veritates, vernalize, vernation, veronicas, versatile, versional, verticals, vesicular, vibraharp, vibrances, vibrantly, vibratile, vibrating, vibration, vibrators, vibratory, vibrissae, vicarages, vicarates, vicariant, vicariate, vicarious, vicarship, viceregal, victorias, victualer, villagers, villagery, vinegared, vineyards, viniferas, vintagers, violaters, violators, virginals, viricidal, viridians, virtually, virtuosas, virucidal, visionary, vitiators, vivariums, vizierate, vizierial, vizirates, vocalizer, voracious, votarists, vulgarian, vulgarise, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VAIR


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

56 41 49 52

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)

01010110 01000001 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 0049 0052

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

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

56354352

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INDEX

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


  

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