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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Wabi Windows Application Binary Interface. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WABI | English | Windows Application Binary Interface | Computer - (MS, Windows) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: WABI |
| Specialty definitions using "WABI": WabiServer, Windows Application Binary Interface. (references) |
| "WABI" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "WABI" is used about 116 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) | 96.55% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.72% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.72% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WABI": wabi-kon, wabi-like. | |
Ending with "WABI": anti-wabi. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
wabi | 49 |
tv wabi | 41 |
wabi sabi | 32 |
sushi wabi | 12 |
5 tv wabi | 7 |
tv.com wabi | 5 |
tv5 wabi | 4 |
sabi venice wabi | 3 |
chicago sushi wabi | 2 |
5 channel wabi | 2 |
inc.com wabi | 2 |
development wabi | 2 |
bangor wabi | 2 |
news wabi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WABI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 侘と寂 (taste for the simple and quiet, wabi and sabi). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | わびとさび (taste for the simple and quiet, wabi and sabi). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | abiway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "WABI": renewabilities, renewability, sewabilities, sewability, unknowabilities, unknowability. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-w" | |
-1 letter: wab. | |
-2 letters: ab, ai, aw, ba, bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-w" | |
+2 letters: bagwig, bawtie, bewail, wasabi. | |
+3 letters: bagwigs, batwing, bawdier, bawdies, bawdily, bawdric, bawling, bawties, bewails, bikeway, blawing, brawlie, rainbow, sawbill, swabbie, wasabis, waxbill, waybill, windbag, wirable. | |
+4 letters: barbwire, bawdiest, bawdrics, bawdries, bewailed, bewailer, bewaring, bikeways, brawlier, brawling, brawnier, brawnily, crabwise, hawkbill, micawber, rainbows, sawbills, swabbies, swabbing, viewable, wabblier, wabbling, wamblier, wambling, warbling, waxbills, waybills, whizbang, wideband, willable, windable, windbags, wingback, winnable, writable, zwieback. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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