WAM

Date "WAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

"WAM" is a common misspelling or typo for: swam, wan, wand, warm, wham.

Specialty Definition: WAM

Domain	Definition
Computing	WAM Intermediate language for compiled Prolog, used by the Warren Abstract Machine. "An Abstract Prolog Instruction Set", D.H.D. Warren, TR 309, SRI 1983. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: WAM

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
wam	English	Walk-around money	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: WAM

Specialty definitions using "WAM": abstract machine ♦ TLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WAM

Domain	Title
Books	De WAM in werking : 25 jaar jurisprudentie (reference) Opowiem wam o Marku (reference) Pokój wam : ocalic od zapomnienia (reference) WAM, ou, Le golfe des Iris : roman (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: WAM

"WAM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "WAM" is used about 7 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 (singular)	71.43%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	14.29%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WAM

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
wam	255	story wam	5
tv wam	23	fetish wam	5
wam net	21	data global ncep noaa swell wam	5
tribe wam	19	atlantic north wam	4
wam wam webmail.pas.earthlink.net	19	bam wam wig	4
global wam	16	com wam	4
bam wam	15	shoes wam	4
messy wam	15	directory wam	4
navy wam	11	girl wam	4
wam wom	9	bam canada day jam wam	4
unl wam	8	clip wam	4
wam wrestling	7	forecast global wam	4
wig wam	7	pie wam	4
channel wam	7	television wam	3
bam jam thank wam	6	resort wam wig	3
mp3 wam	5	aim.com wam	3
telnet wam.umd.edu	5	ranger texas walker wam	3
bam concert wam	5	umd wam	3
model wam	5	wam y	3
bam saddam wam	5	bam lyrics wam wig	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: WAM

Derivations
	Words beginning with "WAM": wamble, wambled, wambles, wamblier, wambliest, wambling, wambly, wame, wamefou, wamefous, wameful, wamefuls, wames, wammus, wammuses, wampish, wampished, wampishes, wampishing, wampum, wampumpeag, wampumpeags, wampums, wampus, wampuses, wamus, wamuses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "WAM": outswam, swam, wigwam. (additional references)
	Words containing "WAM": swami, swamies, swamis, swamp, swamped, swamper, swampers, swampier, swampiest, swampiness, swampinesses, swamping, swampish, swampland, swamplands, swamps, swampy, swamy, wigwams. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: maw.
	Words within the letters "a-m-w"
	-1 letter: am, aw, ma.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-w"
	+1 letter: mawn, maws, swam, wame, warm, wham.
	+2 letters: macaw, mawed, miaow, shawm, swami, swamp, swamy, swarm, wames, wamus, warms, whamo, whams, woman.
	+3 letters: aswarm, awmous, bowman, cowman, haymow, impawn, lawman, lawmen, macaws, mallow, marrow, mawing, meadow, miaows, midway, rewarm, shawms, swamis, swamps, swampy, swarms, wadmal, wadmel, wadmol, wamble, wambly, wammus, wampum, wampus, warmed, warmer, warmly, warmth, warmup, whammo, whammy, wigwam, womans, wombat, womera.
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