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Definition: Yarn |
YarnNoun1. An account describing incidents or events; "a farfetched narrative"; "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures". 2. A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving. Verb1. Tell or spin a yarn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yarn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Yarn \Yarn\, noun. [from Old English expression yarn, [yogh]arn, Anglo-Saxon gearn; akin to Dutch garen, G., Old High German., Icelandic, Swedish, Danish garn; of uncertain origin. Compare to Cord.]. (references) |
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Industry | A continuous strand often of two or more plies that is composed of carded or combed fibres twisted together by spinning, filaments laid parallel or twisted together. Source: European Union. (references) |
19th Century Satire | An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Yarn Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chr. 1:16. The Heb. word mikveh, i.e., "a stringing together," so rendered, rather signifies a host, or company, or a string of horses. The Authorized Version has: "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price;" but the Revised Version correctly renders: "And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of yarn, denotes success in your business and an industrious companion in your home. For a young woman to dream that she works with yarn, foretells that she will be proudly recognized by a worthy man as his wife. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, knitting and weaving. Yarn can be made from any number of artificial or natural fibres. Very thin yarn is referred to as thread. Yarns are made up of any number of plys, each ply being a single thread these threads being twisted (plied) together to make the final yarn.In some cases, thread may be monofilament, in which case it is a single fiber. The only natural fiber that is counted as monofilament is silk.
Yarn is manufactured by either a spinning or air texturizing (commonly referred to as taslanizing) process.
Yarn manufacturing was one of the very first processes that was industrialized.
Yarn is usually measured by weight. In the United States, balls of yarn are usually sold in three-ounce, four-ounce, six-ounce, and eight-ounce skeins. In Europe the units used by textile engineers is often tex. This is grams per kilometer. Many other units have been used during the last centuries each industry creating its own for internal purposes and these escaping into the public domain.
A long, rambling and involved story or a very lengthy joke with the main source of humour in the punchline is also known as a yarn. Also known as a Shaggy dog story or a campfire yarn.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yarn."
Synonyms: YarnSynonyms: narration (n), narrative (n), recital (n), story (n), tale (n), thread (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize. |
Exaggeration | Verb: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify; (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous. |
Noun: exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry | |
Filament | Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute. |
Mixture | Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). |
Untruth | Press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I, uh, um, well, I just wanted to say you're a bright young woman with a beautiful yarn full of hair (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rogue's Yarn (1956) A Yarn About Yarn (1941) Yarn of Wool (1932) Mysterious Yarn (1917) The Ball of Yarn (1913) | |
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 | Cotton on the right has been ginned and is ready for conversion into yarn at a textile mill. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | "Spinning a Yarn" in the casemate of 5"/51 Gun Number Eleven of USS Arkansas (BB-33) on 27 October 1940. The men are (from left to right): Gunner's Mate Second Class N.I. Fewell; Boatswain's Mate First Class R.D. Dennies; Coxwain G.E. Lehto and Gunner's Mate First Class W.A. Crook. This photo is inspired by the scene in Photo # NH 2889. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Spoolers where the yarn is wound from bobbins onto spools, White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., U.S.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two African American girls playing with yarn and knitting needle at Harlem playground. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them any more. Conversion of a large Eastern mill from production of women's stockings to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy, gives this worker a vital defense job. She's drawing yarn fr. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | James Lees & Sons Co., business at 295 5th Ave., New York, New York. Ball yarn island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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William Shakespeare | The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. |
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Business | The major industrial consumers of dyestuff in Indonesia are textile fabric and sewing yarn producers. (references) | |
The ratio of dyes to sewing yarn is around 1% - 2% in weight, smaller than the ratio of dyes to cloth. (references) | ||
The public sector is by far the main supplier for many textile products such as lint, yarn, and fabrics. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | The export of cotton yarn increased by 6.4% during FY-00. (references) |
Bangladesh | This yarn wins out over local yarn, especially in the medium count range. (references) | |
Pakistan | Trade (FY 1998-99): Exports--$7.8 billion: raw cotton, rice, cotton yarn, textiles, fruits, vegetables. (references) | |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | Tariffs were reduced significantly to as low as five percent on such items as non-combed cotton, synthetic filament yarn, newsprint, textile and industrial machinery, vehicles, tractors, and chemicals. (references) |
Trade | Sri Lanka | All imports of textile materials, yarn, and all related intermediate and capital goods required for the garment export industry are free of import duty. (references) |
Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Yarn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.76% of the time. "Yarn" is used about 801 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) | 97.76% | 783 | 8,834 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.87% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.87% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 801 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yarn" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yarn | Last name | 170 | 53,310 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "yarn": a long yarn ♦ abraded yarn ♦ aerated yarn ♦ andalusian yarn ♦ assembled yarn ♦ ball of yarn ♦ Bay yarn ♦ bleached yarn ♦ blend yarn ♦ blended yarn ♦ bulked yarn ♦ cable yarn ♦ cabled yarn ♦ carded yarn ♦ cockled yarn ♦ colored yarn ♦ coloured yarn ♦ combination yarn ♦ corkscrew yarn ♦ cotton yarn ♦ curly yarn ♦ darning yarn ♦ double and twist yarn ♦ end of yarn ♦ fasciated yarn ♦ flax yarn ♦ floss yarn ♦ folded yarn ♦ gassed yarn ♦ glazed yarn ♦ have a yarn ♦ jute yarn ♦ kinky yarn ♦ knickerbocker yarn ♦ knotted netting with single yarn ♦ linen yarn ♦ married yarn ♦ mercerised yarn ♦ mingled yarn ♦ mixture yarn ♦ mule yarn ♦ multiple wound yarn ♦ noil silk yarn ♦ nylon yarn ♦ patent strong yarn ♦ pitch a yarn ♦ plied yarn ♦ polished yarn ♦ polyester yarn ♦ ramie yarn ♦ rayon yarn ♦ Rogue's yarn ♦ rope yarn ♦ ruptured filament yarn ♦ sailor's yarn ♦ saxony yarn ♦ schappe yarn ♦ seafaring yarn ♦ shop selling yarn ♦ silk yarn ♦ singed yarn ♦ single yarn ♦ single yarn of paper ♦ spin a yarn ♦ spin smb. a yarn about smth. ♦ spiral yarn ♦ spun yarn ♦ synthetic yarn ♦ textured yarn ♦ thrown yarn ♦ tinsel yarn ♦ To spin a yarn ♦ To spin street yarn ♦ tram yarn ♦ tubular yarn ♦ twisted yarn ♦ warp yarn ♦ woollen yarn ♦ worsted yarn ♦ wrap yarn ♦ yarn beam ♦ yarn from schappe silk ♦ yarn of coarse animal hair ♦ yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool ♦ yarn spun from silk noils ♦ yarn spun from silk waste other than noil silk ♦ zephyr yarn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yarn": Yarn-a-rama, yarn-changing, yarn-dye, yarn-dyed, yarn-maker, yarn-sizing, yarn-spinner, yarn-spinning. | |
Ending with "yarn": camel-yarn, gorilla-yarn, Linen-yarn, Rope-yarn. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
yarn | 1,191 | yarn craft | 44 |
red heart yarn | 353 | crystal palace yarn | 37 |
knitting yarn | 214 | eros yarn | 34 |
lion brand yarn | 202 | classic elite yarn | 34 |
eyelash yarn | 86 | yarn company | 33 |
rowan yarn | 85 | cascade yarn | 33 |
discount yarn | 83 | lion yarn | 32 |
bernat yarn | 74 | sirdar yarn | 29 |
patons yarn | 65 | sock yarn | 29 |
plymouth yarn | 59 | chenille yarn | 26 |
yarn wholesale | 58 | naturally yarn | 26 |
crochet yarn | 58 | yarn barn | 25 |
natural fiber yarn | 57 | yarn sale | 25 |
yarn shop | 57 | debbie bliss yarn | 24 |
cotton yarn | 54 | berroco yarn | 24 |
trendsetter yarn | 54 | yarn manufacturer | 23 |
alpaca yarn | 51 | mohair yarn | 23 |
caron yarn | 50 | cone yarn | 22 |
wool yarn | 50 | polypropylene yarn | 21 |
yarn store | 44 | baby yarn | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "yarn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | histori (history, story), fill (alone, at once, immediately, just, original, promptly, right, right away, right now, start, string, thread, wire), fije (cord, fiber, fibre, glimmering, leaf, none, sheet of paper, string, thread, wire, wisp). (various references) | |
Arabic | قصة (account, anecdote, fiction, narration, narrative, novel, recital, report, story, tale), حكاية (anecdote, history, narration, narrative, relating, relation, story, tale), غزل (flirtation, gallant, spin, spinning, string, throw), حديث (chat, colloquy, conversation, discourse, late, modernistic, new, newfangled, palaver, speech, talk), تحدث (broadcast, converse, discourse, jaw, sing out, speak, talk, tell), خيط (cord, fiber, fibre, filament, line, string, thread, twist), روى حكاية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разправям небивалици, бъбря (burble, chatter, prate, prattle, rap, talk, tittle tattle), прежда (thread), дълга заплетена история. (various references) | |
Chinese | 毛线, 毛線 . (various references) | |
Czech | vykládat si (set down), příze (thread), dobrodružná historka. (various references) | |
Danish | garn (baling wire, gill net, gillnet, rope yarn, thread, wire). (various references) | |
Dutch | garen (thread). (various references) | |
Farsi | نخ تابیده (Lisle), نخ بافندگی , افسانه پردازی کردن , الیاف , داستان افسانه امیز. (various references) | |
Finnish | lanka (cotton, silk, thread, wire). (various references) | |
French | fil. (various references) | |
German | Garn (cotton, net, network, thread). (various references) | |
Greek | κλωστή,νήμα, έλλειψη ενός στημονιού, νηματοποιημένος, νήμα (clew, clue, crewel, filament, strand, thread), απίθανη ιστορία, αφήγημα (narrative), διηγούμαι κάτι απίθανο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לספר ספורים (spin a yarn, tell on), א'"" (fable, fairy tale, legend, myth, story), אטון (cord, fabric, thread), צ'זבת (cock and bull story, tall story), ספור (narration, numbered, recitation, saga, story, tale). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fonál (strand, thread). (various references) | |
Indonesian | benang (string, thread, twine). (various references) | |
Italian | filato (mohair). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 糸 (string, thread). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いと (aim, design, intention, string, thread, treasonable intent). (various references) | |
Korean | 털실. (various references) | |
Manx | snaie (line, netting, thread, worm). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skrøne (fairytale), garn (knittingwool). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yarnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fio (clue, fountainhead, ingrain, line, strip, thread, tie). (various references) | |
Romanian | poveste de necrezut, nãscocire (concoction, contrivance, discovery, fable, fabrication, fib, figment, invention, lie, make up, tale), lãudãroşenie (bluster, boast, boastfulness, bounce, brag, braggadocio, bragging, hot air, swagger, vaunt), fir tors (thread), aţã (line, needleful, string, thread). (various references) | |
Romany | katlò. (various references) | |
Russian | нить (filament, funiculus, thread), пряжа;сказка, пряжа. (various references) | |
Scottish | sn th (thread). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | predivo, pređa (rove, thread). (various references) | |
Spanish | hilo (lead, line, linen, strand, thread, train, trickle, twine), hilado (spinning, spun). (various references) | |
Swedish | garn (cotton, net, silk, thread, wool), skepparhistoria. (various references) | |
Turkish | masal anlatmak, masal (fable, fairy tale, fiction, romance, story, tale), iplik (fiber, fibre, ficelle, strand, thread), hikâye anlatmak (relate an anecdote, spin a yarn, tell a story), hikâye (anecdote, history, narration, narrative, recital, Rede, story, tale, version). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яьp (string). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | історія (affair, anecdote, history, story), шпагат, гомоніти (babble), анекдот (anecdote), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak), пряжа (spinning). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sợi, chuyện bịa (fib). (various references) | |
Welsh | edau (thread, wool). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 10, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai h exodoV twn ippwn salwmwn ex aiguptou kai ek qekoue emporoi tou basilewV elambanon ek qekoue en allagmati |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et educebantur equi Salomoni de Aegypto et de Coa negotiatores enim regis emebant de Coa et statuto pretio perducebant |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the hors of Salomon weren brouyt out of Egipt, and of Choa; forsothe marchauntis of the kyng bouyten of Choa, and the prijs set, brouyten. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Solomon had horses brought from Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 10, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga kabayo nga diha kang Salomon dinala gikan sa Egipto; ug ang mga magpapatigayon sa hari nagdawat kanila sa panon, tagsatagsa ka panon may bili. |
| Croatian | Salomon je uvozio konje iz Musrija i Koe: kraljevi nabavljaèi uvozili su ih iz Koe za odreðenu svotu. |
| Danish | Hestene, Salomo indførte, kom fra Mizrajim og Kove; Kongens Handelsfolk købte dem i Kove. |
| Dutch | En het uitbrengen der paarden was hetgeen Salomo uit Egypte had; en aangaande het linnen garen, de kooplieden des konings namen het linnen garen voor den prijs. |
| Finnish | Ja hevoset, mitä Salomolla oli, tuotiin Egyptistä ja Kuvesta. Kuninkaan kauppiaat noutivat niitä Kuvesta maksua vastaan. |
| French | C`était de l`Égypte que Salomon tirait ses chevaux; une caravane de marchands du roi les allait chercher par troupes un prix fixe: |
| German | Und man brachte dem Salomo Pferde aus Ägypten und allerlei Ware; und die Kaufleute des Königs kauften diese Ware |
| Haitian Creole | Chwal Salomon yo te soti nan peyi Lejip ak nan peyi Silisi. Wa a te gen moun pa l' ki te konn al achte chwal yo pou li la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Melalui pengusaha-pengusaha raja, kuda didatangkan dari Mesir dan Kilikia, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka bagi raja Sulaiman adalah pembawaan kuda dari Mesir, dan akan benang rami itu, segala saudagar baginda mengambil benang rami itu dengan harganya. |
| Italian | I cavalli di Salomone provenivano da Muzri e da Kue; i mercanti del re li compravano in Kue. |
| Maori | A, ko nga hoiho o Horomona, he mea mau mai i Ihipa; na nga kaihoko a te kingi i tango kahui mai, tena kahui me tona utu. |
| Norwegian | Sine hester lot Salomo innføre fra Egypten; en del kjøbmenn som kongen sendte avsted, hentet fra tid til annen en flokk for en fastsatt pris. |
| Portuguese | Os cavalos que Salomão tinha eram trazidos do Egito e de Coa; os mercadores do rei os recebiam de Coa por preço determinado. |
| Rumanian | Solomon kwi aducea caii din Egipt; o ceatq de negustori de ai kmpqratului se ducea sq -i ia cu grqmada pe un prey hotqrkt: |
| Russian | лПОЕК ЦЕ "БТА уПМПНПОХ ТЙЧП"ЙМЙ ЙЪ еЗЙ ФБ Й ЙЪ лХЧЩ; "БТУЛЙЕ ЛХ "Щ ПЛХ БМЙ ЙИ ЙЪ лХЧЩ ЪБ "ЕОШЗЙ. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yarn": yarned, yarner, yarners, yarning, yarns. (additional references) | |
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"Yarn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aarn, jarn, narn, Nyhavn, yaan, yahn, yain, yairn, yan, yani, yann, yano, yar, yara, yarb, yarg, Yarin, yarl, yarm, yarne, yarp, Yarr, Yarrg, yarri, yars, yart, yarv, yarz, yaun, yenra, yerr, yirn, ylar, yorb, yorg, yorn, yorp, yorq, yorx, y'r, yran, yur, yurn, yzr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yarn" (pronounced yÄ"rn) |
| 3 | -Ä" r n | barn, Carn, darn, Karn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nary. | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: any, nay, ran, ray, rya, yar. | |
-2 letters: an, ar, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: angry, barny, carny, narky, pyran, rainy, randy, rangy, rayon, unary, yarns, yearn. | |
+2 letters: anergy, angary, aroynt, barony, baryon, binary, brainy, brandy, branny, brawny, cairny, canary, carney, cranky, cranny, crayon, denary, frypan, gantry, gnarly, grainy, granny, knarry, larynx, napery, nearby, nearly, notary, orangy, panfry, pantry, pyrans, rankly, ratany, raying, rayons, runway, ryokan, senary, sharny, snarky, snarly, synura, tyrant, unwary, uranyl, yantra, yarned, yarner, yawner, yearns, zonary. | |
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