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WRIE

Definition: WRIE

WRIE

Adjective & verb

1. See Wry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WRIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Wrie \Wrie\, adjective. v. See Wry. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Derivations: WRIE

Derivations

Words beginning with "WRIE": wried, wrier, wries, wriest. (additional references)

Words ending with "WRIE": cowrie. (additional references)

Words containing "WRIE": cowries, dowries, outlawries. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WRIE"

Words ending with "ie": Fie, RIE, Shie. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WRIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: weir, wire.

Words within the letters "e-i-r-w"

-1 letter: ire, rei.

-2 letters: er, re, we.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-r-w"
 

+1 letter: rewin, twier, weird, weirs, wider, wiper, wired, wirer, wires, wiser, wiver, wried, wrier, wries, write.

 

+2 letters: brewis, cowier, cowrie, dewier, earwig, review, rewind, rewins, rewire, twiers, twiner, viewer, wailer, waired, waiter, waiver, wanier, warier, wavier, waxier, weiner, weirdo, weirds, weirdy, whiner, whiter, wicker, widder, wiener, wilder, wilier, willer, wincer, winder, winery, winger, winier, winker, winner, winter, wipers, wirers, wirier, wisher, wither, wivern, wivers, wriest, writer, writes, writhe.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WRIE


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

57 52 49 45

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-.    ..    .

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01010010 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#82 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0052 0049 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57524339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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