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Freaky

Definition: Freaky

Freaky

Adjective

1. (slang) strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience was really freaky".

2. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics".

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

 

Synonyms: Freaky

Synonyms: bizarre (adj), eccentric (adj), flaky (adj), freakish (adj), outlandish (adj), outre (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Freaky

DomainUsage

Screenplays

That was freaky. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

You guys aren't one of those freaky cults are you (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck)

Okay, something really freaky happened last night when I was with Miles (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

You are so freaky! (Get Carter; writing credit: David McKenna)

Note to self--religion = freaky. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Lyrics

Freaky girl me hipe pan it hee (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy)

Handcuffs can you get freaky (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy)

I wanna a freaky girl somebody just like me (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy)

Movie/TV Titles

Freaky Friday (2003)

2 Freaky 4 U (2002)

Gettin' Freaky with It 3 (2002)

Getting Freaky with It (2001)

Gettin' Freaky with It 2 (2001)

Song Titles

Freaky Girl (performing artist: Shaggy)

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

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Commercial Usage: Freaky

DomainTitle

Books

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Freaky

Computer Images:
Freaky

More pictures...

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Digital Photo Gallery: Freaky
 

"Tom turkey" by Velda Christensen
Commentary: "Now I know what it means when people talk about someone's feathers being ruffled. This guy just kept puffing up bigger and bigger every time I looked at him. Kinda freaky looking, isn't he?."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: Freaky

"Freaky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.91% of the time. "Freaky" is used about 23 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
Adjective (general or positive)73.91%1785,106
Noun (proper)26.09%6143,867
                    Total100.00%23N/A

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

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Expression: Freaky

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "freaky": freaky-looking.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Freaky

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

freaky friday

549

feeling freaky lyrics

34

feelin freaky

417

freaky links

32

freaky

383

freaky woman

31

feeling freaky

241

cannon feeling freaky lyrics nick

31

freaky picture

178

freaky things

29

freaky sex

96

fellin freaky

29

freaky girl

89

cock freaky

27

freaky pic

81

freaky red

26

feelin freaky lyrics

72

freaky story

26

freaky flyer

56

freaky friday movie

25

freaky stuff

55

freaky illusion

25

freaky tiki

51

freaky black girl

25

cannon feelin freaky lyrics nick

42

freaky test

25

animal freaky

41

freaky tah

24

die freaky freaky live

41

freaky hoe

23

cannon feelin freaky nick

36

freaky dream

22

cheat freaky

36

felling freaky

20

freaky freddies

35

freaky illusion optical

19

freaky people

35

freaky ice

18

freaky photo

35
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Freaky

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

Bulgarian 

  

чуден (fantastic, fantastical, freak, funny, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

怪异 (monstrous, Oddities, oddity). (various references)

   

French

  

marrant, insolite (freckled), bizarre (freakish). (various references)

   

German

  

komisch (comic, comical, comically, droll, funny, humorous, odd, oddball, queer, queerly, quizzical, rum, screwy, strange, unlikely). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange, strange to say, weird), különös (antic, arabesque, bizarre, bonkers, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, funny, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, uncommon), bolondos (barmy, cockeyed, dorky, fey, frolicsome, harebrained, jocose, pixilated, scatty, screwy, wayout, way-out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

comico (comedian, comic, comical, funniness, funny, laughable, ludicrous). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

별난 (freak). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

sprø (brittle, crazy, crisp, odd, peculiar, strange). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakyfray.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), причудливый (bizarre, capricious, crotchety, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, quaint, quirky, whimsical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

comico (comical, funny). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Freaky

Misspellings

"Freaky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feak, feeak, ferak, feray, fpeak, freack, freag, freakie, freako, freeqy, freik, frek, friky, reaky. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Freaky"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "freaky" (pronounced frē"kē)
4-r ē" k ēcreaky.
3-ē" k ēcheeky, dashiki, leaky, geeky, sneaky, squeaky.

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

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Anagrams: Freaky

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fakery.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-r-y"

-1 letter: faery, faker, fakey, freak.

-2 letters: aery, eyra, fake, fare, fear, frae, fray, fyke, kerf, kyar, rake, ryke, yare, year, yerk.

-3 letters: are, arf, ark, aye, ear, era, far, fay, fer, fey, fry, kae, kaf, kay, kea, kef, key, ray, ref, rya, rye, yak, yar, yea.

-4 letters: ae, ar, ay, ef, er, fa, ka, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-r-y"
 

+2 letters: flackery, freakily.

 

+3 letters: fairylike.

 

+4 letters: freakishly.

 

+5 letters: factorylike, farkleberry.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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