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Definition: Scarey |
ScareyAdjective1. So scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ScareySynonyms: chilling (adj), scary (adj), shivery (adj), shuddery (adj). (additional references) |
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Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Full moon 1" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "Scarey night, exactly full moon. Left as original uncropped." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Scarey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scarey" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
picture scarey | 23 |
scarey story | 20 |
scarey | 17 |
3 movie scarey | 10 |
scarey movie | 8 |
scarey site web | 5 |
dildo scarey | 5 |
huge scarey sex toy | 5 |
pic scarey | 4 |
clown scarey | 4 |
scarey site | 4 |
scarey stuff | 3 |
ghost picture scarey | 3 |
scarey things | 3 |
2 movie scarey | 3 |
campfire scarey story | 2 |
scarey screensaver | 2 |
photo scarey | 2 |
face scarey | 2 |
email scarey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scarey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | espantoso (amazing, appaling, appalling, dread, dreadful, frightening, frightful, gruesome, hideous, nerve racking, scary, shocking, stark, terrifying), de miedo (scary), asustadizo (eerie, jumpy, nervous, scary, shy, skittish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), полохливий (coward, dastard, dastardly, funky, pavid, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, scary, shy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: creasy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: acres, cares, carse, escar, eyras, races, resay, sayer, scare, scary, serac, years. | |
-2 letters: aces, acre, aery, arcs, ares, arse, ayes, care, cars, case, cays, ears, easy, eras, eyas, eyra, race, racy, rase, rays, recs, ryas, ryes, scar, scry, sear, sera, syce, yare, year, yeas. | |
-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ars, aye, ays, car, cay. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: carneys, hyraces, screaky, sectary. | |
+2 letters: actressy, ancestry, caloyers, charleys, coarsely, cytaster, decayers, keycards, raceways, sacredly, scarcely, sycamore, yachters. | |
+3 letters: accessary, accessory, acrylates, astrocyte, calypters, caryopses, claymores, claywares, clepsydra, copyreads, crybabies, cyclecars, cymbalers, cytasters, dyarchies, fireclays, insectary, jerrycans, necessary, recusancy, rockabyes, secondary, secretary, secularly, sergeancy, skyjacker, supremacy, sycamores, trachytes. | |
+4 letters: absorbency, accursedly, archetypes, astrocytes, asymmetric, athrocytes, carelessly, carryovers, caryatides, catalyzers, cherimoyas, clearstory, clepsydrae, clepsydras, cornerways, corybantes, coryphaeus, crayfishes, crazyweeds, crystalize, cyberspace, escalatory, eucaryotes, excusatory, graywackes, gynarchies, hydrospace, hyperspace, hysterical, jackassery, lachrymose, macrocytes, narcolepsy, pachyderms, panegyrics, pelycosaur, reclassify, screenplay, secularity, skyjackers, skyscraper, spectrally, specularly, sterically, syncarpies, transiency, viscerally. | |
| 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. | |
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