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Calamari

Definition: Calamari

Calamari

Noun

1. (Italian cookery) squid prepared as food.

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

Synonyms: Calamari

Synonyms: calamary (n), squid (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Calamari

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Calamari Union (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: Calamari

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Calamari

Computer Images:
Calamari

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Name Usage Frequency: Calamari

The following table summarizes the usage of "calamari" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CalamariLast name10087,106
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Calamari

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

calamari

159

calamari recipe

66

fried calamari

22

calamari fried recipe

16

calamari recipe steak

13

calamari team

12

calamari steak

12

calamari grilled

9

calamari mon

7

calamari salad

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Calamari

Language Translations for "calamari"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

főtt tintahal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alamaricay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Calamari

Derivations

Words beginning with "calamari": calamaries, calamaris. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Calamari" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alcmaria, Alkawari, Ayamara, calamai, calamaro, Calearo, Caliari, calimari, calmari, Carliari, Casamari, catlimore, Cellamare, chalamain, clamavi, Conamara, Galadari, kalamari, kalanoi, Kalantari, kalibari, Kalimera, Kilmarie, Nakamaru, Scalambria, Scalambrin, Shalabai. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Calamari"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "calamari" (pronounced kÄlÄmÄ"rē)
3-Ä" r ēchary, safari, sari, sorry, starry.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Calamari

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-r"

-1 letter: calamar, malaria.

-2 letters: calami, camail, maraca, racial.

-3 letters: acari, alarm, claim, craal, laari, lamia, malar, malic, maria, micra.

-4 letters: alar, alma, amia, amir, aria, aril, calm, carl, clam, cram, laic, lair, lama, lari, liar, lima, lira, maar, mail, mair, marc, marl, mica, raia, rail, rami, rial.

-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, air, ala, ama, ami, arc, arm, cam, car, lac, lam, lar, mac, mar, mil, mir, ram, ria, rim.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-r"
 

+1 letter: calamaris, camarilla.

 

+2 letters: calamaries, camarillas.

 

+3 letters: grammatical, matriarchal, paramedical, pragmatical.

 

+4 letters: aromatically, charlatanism, dramatically, paramedicals, pyromaniacal.

 

+5 letters: aerodynamical, charlatanisms, dramaturgical, grammatically, magistratical, metacercarial, panoramically, pharmacopeial, pragmatically, traumatically, ungrammatical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Calamari


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

43 61 6C 61 6D 61 72 69

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)

01000011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006C 0061 006D 0061 0072 0069

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

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

3767786779678475

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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