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Definition: Frowsty |
FrowstyAdjective1. Stale and unclean smelling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FrowstySynonyms: fusty (adj), musty (adj). (additional references) |
| "Frowsty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frowsty" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "frowsty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zagushi (fug, stuffiness, sultriness, sultry weather, swelter), vapë (heat, swelter), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), i mykur (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спарен (fusty, pockety, stale), вмирисан (frowsy, frowzy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malfreŝaera (close, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui sent le renfermé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | moderig (frowstily, frowzily, frowzy, fusty, mouldy, musty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πνιγηρόσ (fuggy, stuffy, sweltering, sweltery), πνιγερόσ (muggy, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | באוש (malodorous, spoilt, stale, stinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fülledt (frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry, sweaty), áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy, vapid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | plooghit (chesty, choked, close, congested, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, smothered, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, suppressed, teeming, thick, thick as voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owstyfray спертый (close, frowst, frowzy, fuggy, muggy, pockety, stuffy), затхлый (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, musty, pockety). (various references) sparan (muggy, stuffy, sultry, sweltering). (various references) sofocante (close, oppressive, smothery, stifling, suffocant, suffocating, sultry), cargado (airless, charged, charges, encumbered, encumbers, laded, laden, loaded, stuffy). (various references) unken (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, musty, stale, whiffy), kvav (airless, close, frowsy, frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry), instängd (cabined, confined, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, pent, shut up). (various references) küf kokulu (dank, frowzy, fusty, musty, nosey, nosy, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy, stuffy), havasız (airless, fuggy, stuffy, unaired), basık (flattened, frowzy, low, overcast, receding, stuffy). (various references) затхлий (frowzy, fusty, spent, stale). (various references) n"ng nặc uế khí, hôi hám; có mùi ẩm mốc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-r-s-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: frosty, frowst, frowsy. | |
-2 letters: forts, forty, frost, frows, ryots, softy, story, strow, stroy, trows, troys, tyros, worst, worts. | |
-3 letters: fort, foys, frow, orts, rosy, rots, rows, ryot, soft, sort, stow, swot, tors, tory, tows, towy, toys, trow, troy, twos, tyro, wort, wost, wots, yows. | |
-4 letters: for, foy, fro, fry, oft, ors, ort, rot, row. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 6F 77 73 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. --- .--. ... - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101111 01110111 01110011 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r o w s t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 006F 0077 0073 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40848189858691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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