Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Wavell

Definition: Wavell

Wavell

Noun

1. British field marshal in North Africa in World War II; he defeated the Italians before being defeated by the Germans (1883-1950).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Wavell

Synonyms: Archibald Percival Wavell (n), First Earl Wavell (n). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Wavell

English words defined with "Wavell": Archibald Percival WavellFirst Earl Wavell. (references)

Top     

Photo Album: Wavell

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Top-ranking Anglo-American army officials meet in New Delhi, India. Left to right: Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell; Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding all U.S. Army troops in China, Burma, and India; Lieutenant General H.H. "Hap" Arnold,.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Top     

Usage Frequency: Wavell

"Wavell" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wavell" is used about 14 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 (proper)100%1493,893

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

Top     

Expressions: Wavell

Expressions using "Wavell": Archibald Percival Wavell first Earl Wavell. Additional references.

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wavell

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

  la gloria cubana wavell

7

  hinds wavell

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Wavell

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-v-w"

-2 letters: lave, leal, leva, vale, veal, vela, wale, wall, wave, weal, well.

-3 letters: ale, all, ave, awe, awl, ell, lav, law, lea, lev, vaw, wae.

-4 letters: ae, al, aw, el, la, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-v-w"
 

+4 letters: wavelessly.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Wavell


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

57 61 76 65 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    ...-    .    .-..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Top     

 

Bibliographic Items: "Wavell"


Top     

Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Wavell"

Top     

Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Wavell