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Definition: Irrelevancy |
IrrelevancyNoun1. The lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "irrelevancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Synonym: IrrelevancySynonym: irrelevance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: relevance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Influence | Noun: impotence; powerlessness; inertness; irrelevancy. |
Disagreement | Unfitness; Adjective: inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability; Adjective: inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy; (irrelation). |
Irrelation | Noun: irrelation, dissociation; misrelation; inapplicability; inconnection; multifariousness; disconnection; (disjunction); inconsequence, independence; incommensurability; irreconcilableness; (disagreement); heterogeneity; unconformity; irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem; intrusion; non-pertinence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Irrelevancy |
| English words defined with "irrelevancy": Irrelavance, Irrelavancy. (references) |
| "Irrelevancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Irrelevancy" is used about 13 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) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
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 |
irrelevancy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "irrelevancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | نامناسبی (Inadequacy, Inconvenience, Infelicity, Irrelevance), نامربوطی (Impertinence, Irrelevance). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | question étrangère l'objet du débat (irrelevancy of the discussion, irrelevant matter), manque d' -propos (irrelevancy of the discussion), discours côté de la question (irrelevancy of the discussion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | άσχετο (irrelativeness, unfamiliarity). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | nem odaillőség (irrelevance), nem a tárgyhoz tartozóság (irrelevance), lényegtelenség (immateriality, inconsequence, irrelevance), jelentéktelen dolog (nonentity, nothing, nothingness, small beer, small matter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irrelevancyay yersiz olma (inaptitude, irrelevance), konunun dışında olma (irrelevance). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "irrelevancy" (pronounced ire"luvunsē) |
| 9 | -r e" l u v u n s ē | relevancy. |
| 5 | -v u n s ē | Conservancy, insolvency, solvency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insurgency, interagency, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, residency, resiliency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: relevancy. | |
-3 letters: cinerary, cravenly, larcener, nearlier, recliner, reliance, vernacle, vernicle, vicenary. | |
-4 letters: aliener, carline, caviler, cervine, clavier, clayier, cleaner, clearer, cleaver, earlier, enclave, errancy, inlayer, larceny, learier, learner, leavier, livener, naively, nervier, nervily, raveler, ravelin, ravener, reclean, recline, relearn, revelry, reviler, rivalry, valence, valency, valeric, vealier, vernier, vicarly, virelay, yearner. | |
-5 letters: aerier, aerily, alevin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 72 72 65 6C 65 76 61 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. .-. . .-.. . ...- .- -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I r r e l e v a n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0072 0072 0065 006C 0065 0076 0061 006E 0063 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4384847178718867806991 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | hongrois, Ούγγρος, magyar, macarca, macar |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turque, τούρκικοσ, török, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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