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Divvy

Definition: Divvy

Divvy

Noun

1. (British) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society.

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


Usage Frequency: Divvy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Divvy

Expression using "divvy": divvy up. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Divvy

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

divvy

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Divvy

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Divvy

Derivations

Words beginning with "divvy": divvying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Divvy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "divvy" (pronounced di"vē)
3-i" v ēprivy.

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Anagrams: Divvy

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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