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Definition: Headscarf |
HeadscarfNoun1. A kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Headscarf |
| English words defined with "headscarf": babushka. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | At one prominent Tashkent University, a professor noted that to his knowledge only one female student wore the headscarf favored by many modest Muslim women. (references) |
Turkey | According to Mazlum-DER, during the year 44 teachers lost their jobs for wearing head coverings and there were small-scale protests against the headscarf ban. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | However, Muslims, particularly older men, were seen in Tashkent wearing prayer robes and women were seen wearing the Muslim headscarf and, less commonly, the veil. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Hey Yasser, stop buying explosives with European money and wearing a map of Israel on your headscarf. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Headscarf" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Headscarf" is used about 42 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 97.62% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
headscarf | 21 |
erotic headscarf | 4 |
fetish headscarf | 3 |
headscarf satin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "headscarf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | šátek na hlavu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | kopftuch (babuschka, bandanna, kerchief, scarf, shawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τσεμπέρι (kerchief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fejkendő (head scarf, kerchief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | foulard (haircloth, scarf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadscarfhay marama za glavu. (various references) головна хустка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Headscarf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: headcard, Headicar, headicraa, headscarfed, headscarfs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: charades, hardcase. | |
-2 letters: arcades, carafes, chadars, chafers, charade, crashed, echards, facades, scarfed. | |
-3 letters: afeard, afresh, arcade, arched, arches, arecas, cadres, caesar, carafe, cashed, cedars, chadar, chafed, chafer, chafes, charas, chards, chared, chares, chased, chaser, dachas, dasher, decafs, echard, eschar, facade, facers, faders, farads, farced, farces, fashed, fracas, sacred, scared, search, shader, shared, sradha. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ached, aches, acred, acres, afars, ahead, arced, areas, areca, ashed, cades, cadre, cafes, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cedar, chads, chafe, chard, chare, chars, chase, chefs, crash, daces, dacha, dares, dears, deash, decaf, escar, faced, facer, faces, fader, fades, farad, farce, fards, fared, fares, fears, fresh, haafs, haars, hades, hards, hared, hares, heads, heard, hears, herds, raced, races, rased, reach, reads, rheas, sacra, sadhe, safer, scare, scarf, serac, shade, shard, share, sheaf, shear, sherd, shred. | |
-5 letters: aahs, aced, aces, ache, acre, afar, arch, arcs, area, ares, arfs, arse, asea, cade, cads, cafe, card, care, cars, casa, case, cash, chad, char, chef, dace, dahs, dare, dash, deaf, dear, each, ears, edhs, eras, face, fade, fads, fard, fare, fash, fear, feds, fehs, frae, haaf, haar, hade, haed, haes, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hers, race, rads, rase, rash, read, recs, reds, refs, resh, rhea, sade, safe, sard, scad, scar, sear, sera, serf, shad, shea, shed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-h-r-s" | |
+3 letters: saccharified. | |
+4 letters: handcraftsmen, handicrafters. | |
+5 letters: handicraftsmen. | |
| 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)48 65 61 64 73 63 61 72 66 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- -.. ... -.-. .- .-. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a d s c a r f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 0063 0061 0072 0066 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167708569678472 |
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