VOLLEYED

Definitions: VOLLEYED

VOLLEYED

Adjective

1. Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Volley

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VOLLEYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1821. (references)

Synonyms: VOLLEYED

Synonyms by domain: round (mining), volley.

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Usage Frequency: VOLLEYED

"VOLLEYED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 87.80% of the time. "VOLLEYED" is used about 41 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	87.8%	36	57,479
Adjective (general or positive)	9.76%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (past participle)	2.44%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	41	N/A

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

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Expression: VOLLEYED

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "VOLLEYED": half-volleyed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VOLLEYED

Language		Translations for "VOLLEYED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		齐射 (salvo, Salvos, Volley, Volleying, Volleys). (various references)

Pig Latin		olleyedvay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: VOLLEYED

Misspellings
	"VOLLEYED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: valleyed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VOLLEYED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-l-o-v-y"
	-2 letters: lovely, volley, yelled.
	-3 letters: delly, delve, devel, dolly, level, loved, odyle, voled, yodel, yodle.
	-4 letters: dele, dell, dole, doll, dove, eely, eyed, levo, levy, lode, love, odyl, oldy, veld, vole, yeld, yell.
	-5 letters: dee, del, dev, dey, doe, dol, dye, eel, eld, ell, eve, eye, led, lee, lev, ley, lye, ode, old, ole, vee.
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