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Frier

Definition: Frier

Frier

Noun

1. Flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying.

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

Date "frier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonyms: Frier

Synonyms: fryer (n), pullet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Frier

Specialty definitions using "frier": POTATO-CHIP FRIER, POTATO-CHIP-PROCESSING SUPERVISOR, POTATO-PANCAKE FRIER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Frier

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Philosophical Discourse Concerning Speech (1668) and a Discourse Written to a Learned Frier (1670) (reference)

  • Frier and Elisabeth, sportsman and storyteller (reference)

  • Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, The Historie of Orlando Furioso, The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Arragon 1594-1599 (The Life and Complete Works of Robert Greene, M.A. - Volume 13) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Frier

"Frier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Frier" is used about 7 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)85.71%6143,867
Noun (proper)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Frier

The following table summarizes the usage of "frier" 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
FrierLast name1,00011,552
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Frier

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

turkey frier

11

frier

9

deep frier

8

annette frier

6

frier wayne

4

frier home wayne

4

blow free frier job teen

4

free frier teen

3

frier home mobile wayne

3

frier tuck

3

frier teen

2

frier inn tuck

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Frier

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

Chinese 

  

炸" (fryer). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stegeapparat (deep-fat frier), apparat til friturekogning (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

frituurtoestel (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ماهی تابه(fryer=), سرخ کننده (Roaster, Toaster). (various references)

   

French

  

friturier (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

German

  

Friteuse (chip pan), Bratapparat (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκευή για το τηγάνισμα (deep-fat frier), φριτέζα (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penggoreng. (various references)

   

Italian

  

apparecchio friggitore (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ierfray

   

Portuguese

  

frigideira (dripping pan, frying pan, frying-pan, pan, skillet). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

freidora (deep-fat frier). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tava (broiler, fried, fryer, frying pan, pan, skillet), kızartmalık piliç (fryer, roaster). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

g giò để rán (fryer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Frier

Derivations

Words beginning with "frier": friers. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Frier"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "frier" (pronounced frī"er)
4f r ī" erfriar, fryer.
3-r ī" erbriar, brier, crier, drier, dryer, prier, prior, pryer, Trier.

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

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Anagrams: Frier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: firer, rifer.

Words within the letters "e-f-i-r-r"

-1 letter: fire, reif, rife.

-2 letters: err, fer, fie, fir, ire, ref, rei, rif.

-3 letters: ef, er, if, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-r-r"
 

+1 letter: fairer, ferric, firers, firmer, friers, frizer, refire, rifler.

 

+2 letters: airfare, briefer, drifter, farrier, fernier, ferried, ferries, ferrite, fiercer, fierier, figurer, firearm, firmers, flirter, forkier, frailer, friller, friseur, frisker, fritter, frizers, frizzer, fruiter, furrier, furzier, grifter, prefire, reefier, refiner, refired, refires, refrain, refried, refries, reifier, riffler, riflers, riflery, rimfire, rotifer, surfier, terrify, trifler, turfier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Frier


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

46 72 69 65 72

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)

01000110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 0069 0065 0072

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

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

4084757184

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INDEX

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


  

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