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Definition: Freaky |
FreakyAdjective1. (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: FreakySynonyms: bizarre (adj), eccentric (adj), flaky (adj), freakish (adj), outlandish (adj), outre (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| "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. |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 73.91% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "freaky": freaky-looking. | |
| 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 |
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. | |||
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "freaky" (pronounced frē"kē) |
| 4 | -r ē" k ē | creaky. |
| 3 | -ē" k ē | cheeky, dashiki, leaky, geeky, sneaky, squeaky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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