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Definition: Wyrd |
WyrdNoun1. Fate personified; one of the Three Weird Sisters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: WyrdSynonym: Weird (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wyrd was paralleled in early Nordic cultures where the word was rendered as urd (not entirely coincidentally, Urd is also the name of one of the three Norns or Norse mythological spinners of destiny).
In Anglo-Saxon times, wyrd was often a consequence of symbel, a ritualistic drinking of alcohol to excess in which story-telling by means of narrative verse was a central feature.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wyrd."
Crosswords: Wyrd |
| English words defined with "Wyrd": Norn. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wyrd Sisters (1996) | |
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| "Wyrd" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Wyrd" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
wyrd sister | 19 |
the wyrd | 12 |
lyrics sister wyrd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: dry, wry. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: dowry, rowdy, wordy. | |
+2 letters: bawdry, byword, crowdy, dowery, drawly, drowsy, tawdry, weirdy. | |
+3 letters: bywords, daywork, doorway, drywall, hayward, keyword, powdery, roadway, rowdily, skyward, wayward, weirdly, wordily, workday, worldly. | |
+4 letters: bewrayed, bodywork, cityward, cowardly, dayworks, dewberry, doorways, driveway, drowsily, drywalls, haywards, inwardly, keywords, lawyered, roadways, rowdyish, rowdyism, shrewdly, skywards, tawdrily, towardly, underway, upwardly, wardenry, willyard, wizardly, wizardry, wordplay, workaday, workdays, yardwand, yardwork. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 79 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. -.--. .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01111001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W y r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0079 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57918470 |
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