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Definition: Divvy |
DivvyNoun1. (British) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Divvy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Divvy" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "divvy": divvy up. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
divvy | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "divvy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), пай (contingent, pate, pie, portion, share, slice, whack), дивидент (dividend). (various references) | |
German | aufteilen (apportion, break down, carve up, divide, divide out, divide up, divvy up, lay out, parcel, parcel out, partition, share out, slice up, split, split up, to apportion, to split). (various references) | |
Hungarian | osztalék (cut, dividend, divident), remek (aces, bitching, bully, clinker, corking, crackajack, dandy, dashing, delicious, excellent, glorious, grand, great, helluva, ideal, jake, masterful, mind-blowing, nifty, prime, proud, racy anecdote, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, sniffy, spiffy, superb, swell, tall, thumbs up, to be all aces, top notch, wow), mennyei (celestial, empyreal, heavenly, out of this world, paradisiac, supernal, unearthly), isteni (aces, divine, divinity, godlike, providence, to be all aces), hadosztály (division), felséges (delicious, divine, goluptious, royal, sovereign), csodás (beautiful, heavenly, phenomenal, prodigious, unimaginably, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivvyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dividir (apportion, break, deal, disintegrate, dismember, dispart, dissever, divide, intersect, lot, parcel out, part, separate, sever, share, slice, sunder, whack), dividendo (dividend), desunir (disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divide, separate, sever, uncouple), separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean), cindir (divide), bifurcar (bisect, branch, dichotomize, divaricate, divide), atravessar (cross, divide, fish, go through, intersect, jab, overpass, pass, pass over, penetrate, perambulate, permeate, pervade, pierce, roam, spit, survive, thrust, transfix, travel, traverse, trespass). (various references) | |
Russian | войти в пай, пай (share). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deoba (distribution, division), podeliti (deal out, dispense, distribute, divide, farm out). (various references) | |
Spanish | pago (acquittal, acquittance, area, country, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, discharge, dividend, do I pay, estate, f, fee, indemnification, installment, instalment, pay out, paying, payment, payoff, price, property, region, repayment, settlement, settling, village, wage, zone), pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay). (various references) | |
Swedish | andel (concern, cut, end, interest, lot, part, Parthian, piece, proportion, quota, share, slice, toll, whack), återbäring (bonus, dividend, dividends). (various references) | |
Turkish | paylaşmak (cast in, divide, divvy up, double up, double up on, go shares, go snacks, partake, participate of, share, share out, split, whack up), bölmek (break down, carve up, cleave, divide, divvy up, overslaugh, parcel, parcel out, partition, portion, reduce, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, share, slice, split). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), пай, ділитися (divide, go snaps, impart, share, snack). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divvy": divvying. (additional references) | |
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"Divvy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bivvi, bivvy, civvy, davyum, deevy, Dervy, devey, devry, devy, dirvy, divey, divi, divie, divv, divvie, divvil, divy, dovvy, dovy, duvivier, Duvy, dv, dyv, fivy, Livvy, mivy, Tivvy, Tivy, vivy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divvy" (pronounced di"vē) |
| 3 | -i" v ē | privy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-v-v-y" | |
-2 letters: ivy, yid. | |
-3 letters: id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-v-v-y" | |
+2 letters: vividly. | |
+3 letters: divvying. | |
+5 letters: divisively, involvedly. | |
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