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Definition: Relevancy |
RelevancyNoun1. The relation of something to the matter at hand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "relevancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Synonym: RelevancySynonym: relevance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: irrelevance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Fitness, aptness; Adjective: relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey; sortance; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation; (relation). |
Relation | Noun: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern,. cognation; correlation; analogy; similarity; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation; (nearness); filiation; (consanguinity); interest; relevancy; dependency, relationship, relative position. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Bolivia | With the privatization of most of these enterprises, the COB's relevancy has diminished markedly, and the practice of direct employee-management negotiations in individual enterprises is expanding. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Relevancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Relevancy" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
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 |
keyword relevancy | 13 |
search engine relevancy | 2 |
country in language relevancy search speed subject | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "relevancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | уместност (advisability, appropriateness, felicity, neatness, pertinence, poignancy, propriety, relevance), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, string, tie, touch), обществено значение (relevance), практическо значение (relevance), приложимост (adaptability, feasibility, latitude, practicability, relevance, viability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 相关性 (relevance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závažnost (consequence, gravity, magnitude, relevance, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pertinence logique (logical relevance, logical relevancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | relevanz (pertinece, relevance), Bedeutung (acceptation, bearing, concern, consequence, definition, denotation, greatness, idea, implication, importance, largeness, magnitude, meaning, moment, notability, notable, prominence, significance, signification, value, weight, worth), aktualität (actuality, relevance, topicality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνάφεια (adhesion, adhesiveness, affinity, bond, bonding, chaining, coherence, connection, context, contiguity, contingency, continuity, linking, nexus, object, related cases, relevance, sticking property, the state in which two surfaces are held together by interfacial forces which may consist of valence forces), σχέση (affinity, association, bearing, communion, concern, connection, dealings, pertinence, pertinency, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, telegraph relation), σχετικότησ (relatedness, relativeness, relativity, relevance), σχετικότητα (relatedness, relativeness, relativity, relevance), αρμοδιότησ (fitness, likely, patness, pertinence, propriety, relevance, suitability), αρμοδιότητα (activity, appropriateness, aptitude, cognizance, competence, domain, eligibility, fitness, jurisdiction, propriety, province, relevance, suitability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tárgyhoz tartozás (relevance), fontosság (caliber, calibre, concernment, consequence, consideration, importance, magnitude, mark, ponderosity, relevance, stress, value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pertinenza (pertinence, pertinency, relevance), attinenza (attachment, bearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관 성 (relevance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elevancyray relevância (materialization, relevance), relação (affinity, bill, connexion, contact, data sheet, gear ratio, interface, list, narrative, Niagara, proportion, proportionable, rate, ratio, recording, register, relation, relationship, relevance, schedule, telegraph relation, tie in), pertinência (pertinence, pertinency, relevance). (various references) relevanţã (relevance), relaţie (account, bearing, communion, concern, connection, contact, intercourse, relation, relationship, relevance), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), importanţã (account, amount, bearing, concern, consequence, consideration, extent, gravity, greatness, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, pith, prominence, relevance, relief, self-importance, significance, store, value, weight). (various references) уместность (appositeness, appropriateness, pertinence, propriety, relevance). (various references) relevantnost (relevance), značajnost (notability, pertinence, relevance, weightiness). (various references) relación (association, connection, connexion, connotation, link, link up, list, record, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, telegraph relation, telex relation, touch, understanding), pertinencia (applicability, dispassion, pertinence, pertinency, relevance), conexión (alcove, arming, assembly, attach flag, bond, bonding, channel, closing, connected, connection, connexion, diplomacy, fitting, hookup, joining, joint, jointing, junction, liaison, link, link up, linkage, MAC connection, plug, putting through, related cases, relation, relationship, relevance, strapping, tag, touch, turn-on), aplicabilidad (applicability, relevance). (various references) relevans (pertinence, relevance). (various references) uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, sexual intercourse, truck), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), alâka (attachment, bearing, concern, connection, interest, relation, relationship, relevance, respect). (various references) релевантність (relevance), доречність (appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, fitness, happiness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance, rightness). (various references) sự xác đáng (relevance), sự thích hợp (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, congruity, congurence, fitness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance, suitability, suitableness), sự thích đáng (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, aptness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "relevancy": irrelevancy. (additional references) | |
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"Relevancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: relavancy, relevency, revelancy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "relevancy" (pronounced re"luvunsē) |
| 9 | r e" l u v u n s ē | irrelevancy. |
| 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-l-n-r-v-y" | |
-1 letter: cravenly, vernacle. | |
-2 letters: cleaner, cleaver, enclave, larceny, reclean, valence, valency. | |
-3 letters: careen, carney, carvel, carven, cavern, celery, cereal, claver, cleave, clever, craven, crenel, enlace, evenly, lancer, laveer, leaner, leaven, leaver, nearly, recane, relace, reveal, vealer, venery, vernal. | |
-4 letters: anele, calve, caner, carle, carny, carve, caver, clary, clave, clean, clear, crane, crave, creel, early, elver. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-v-y" | |
+2 letters: irrelevancy. | |
+4 letters: interactively. | |
+5 letters: conservatively, hypervigilance. | |
| 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)52 65 6C 65 76 61 6E 63 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. . ...- .- -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l e v a n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0065 0076 0061 006E 0063 0079 |
| 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)527178718867806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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