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Definition: VAREC |
VARECNoun1. The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack. |
Etymology: Varec \Var"ec\, noun. [French expression varech; of Teutonic origin. See Wrack seaweed, wreck.]. (Websters 1913) |
"VAREC" is a common misspelling or typo for: Are, Areca, Farce, Varied, Vary, Veer, Vireo. |
Crosswords: VAREC |
| Non-English Usage: "VAREC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (kelp). |
| "VAREC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VAREC" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
varec | 27 |
varec whessoe | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "varec"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | arecvay.(various references) | |
Swedish | Brunalg (kelp). (various references) | |
Turkish | Varek Külü, Deniz Sazı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "VAREC" (pronounced 'Var"ec'): Hypothec. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carve, caver, crave. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-v" | |
-1 letter: acre, aver, care, cave, race, rave, vera. | |
-2 letters: ace, arc, are, ave, car, ear, era, rec, rev, vac, var. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-v" | |
+1 letter: carved, carvel, carven, carver, carves, cavern, cavers, claver, craved, craven, craver, craves. | |
+2 letters: archive, avarice, cadaver, caravel, carvels, carvers, caverns, caviare, caviler, clavers, clavier, cleaver, cravens, cravers, overact, precava, scarves, valeric, varices, verruca, viscera. | |
+3 letters: acervate, acervuli, achiever, advancer, archived, archives, avarices, avoucher, cadavers, canvaser, caravels, cavalero, cavalier, caveator, caverned, caviares, cavilers, caviller, cavorted, cavorter, cervelas, cervelat, cervical, chivaree, clavered, claviers, cleavers, conferva, coverage, coverall, cravened, cravenly, creative, crevalle, crevasse, curative, czarevna, evocator, havocker, laverock, maverick, navicert, novercal, overacts, overarch, overcall, overcame, overcast, overcoat, overcram, precavae, precaval, reactive, revanche, tractive, vambrace, variance, varicose, veracity, verdancy, vernacle, veronica, verrucae, vertical, vibrance, vicarage, vicarate, vicenary, visceral. | |
+4 letters: accretive, acervulus, achievers, advancers, avouchers, cabdriver, cadaveric, calvaries, canvasers, canvasser, caravaned, caravaner, caregiver, caressive, carnivore, carryover, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavalries, caveators, caverning, cavernous, cavillers, cavorters, cervelats, chevalier, chivareed, chivarees, chivaried, chivaries, clavering, confervae, confervas, corrasive, coverable, coverages, coveralls, cravening, crevalles, crevassed, crevasses, curatives, curvature, curveball, czarevnas, echeveria, embracive, evocators, excavator, fricative, grievance, hardcover, haversack, havockers, incurvate, larvicide, laverocks, leviratic, lucrative, mavericks, microwave, navicerts, overacted, overcalls, overcasts, overclaim, overclean, overclear, overcoach, overcoats, overcrams, overmatch, overreach, overreact, oversauce, overscale, privacies, proactive, relevance, relevancy, revanches, revictual, revocable, scavenger, severance, vambraces, variances, varicella, varicosed, vectorial, vehicular, veracious, veridical, vernacles, veronicas, verticals, vesicular, vibrances, vicarages, vicarates, vicariate, viceregal, victualer, vocalizer. | |
+5 letters: advertence, advertency, apperceive, architrave, ascriptive, attractive, aviatrices, aviculture, cabdrivers, cadaverine, cadaverous, cantilever, canvassers, caravaners, caravanned, caravanner, caregivers, caregiving, carnivores, carryovers, cavaliered, cavalierly, cavalrymen, cervelases, changeover, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, cloverleaf, coacervate, cofavorite, contravene, conversant, covariance, covenanter, covenantor, coveralled, cravenness, creatively, creativity, crevassing, curatively, curvaceous, curvatures, curveballs, czarevitch, decemviral, decorative, detractive, divaricate, echeverias, evaporitic, everyplace, eviscerate, excavators, execrative, extractive, fricatives, governance, grievances, hardcovers, haversacks, hovercraft, incurvated, incurvates, invariance, inveteracy, lacerative, larvicides, microwaved, microwaves, observance, overacting, overaction, overactive, overarched, overarches, overbleach, overcalled, overcasted, overcharge, overclaims, overcleans, overclears, overfacile, overreacts, oversauced, oversauces, overscaled, prevalence, prevocalic, provenance, purveyance, reactivate, reactively, reactivity, receivable, recitative, recitativi, recitativo, recreative, refractive, relevances, revanchism, revanchist, revictuals, revocation, scavengers, serviceman, severances, silverback, stavesacre, survivance, tovariches, ulcerative, uncreative, vacationer, vagrancies, vallecular, varicellas, varicocele, veracities, verdancies, vermicular, vernacular, versicular, vertically, vibrancies, vicariance, vicariates, victualers, victualler, viscerally, vocalizers, vociferant, vociferate, voracities, vorticella, vulcanizer, woodcarver. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 52 45 43 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. . -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000001 01010010 01000101 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A R E C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 0052 0045 0043 |
| 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)5635523937 |
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