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Scarey

Definition: Scarey

Scarey

Adjective

1. 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: Scarey

Synonyms: chilling (adj), scary (adj), shivery (adj), shuddery (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Scarey

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Scarey

Computer Images:
Scarey

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Digital Photo Gallery: Scarey
 

"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.

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Usage Frequency: Scarey

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scarey

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Scarey

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.

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Anagrams: Scarey

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Digital Art
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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