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Shwa

Definition: Shwa

Shwa

Noun

1. A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Shwa" is a common misspelling or typo for: schwa, Shaw, shawl.


Synonym: Shwa

Synonym: schwa (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shwa

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

shiggity shiggity shwa

11

shwa

8

fung shwa

3

boy shwa

2

shiggity shwa

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Shwa

Derivations

Words beginning with "shwa": shwanpan, shwanpans. (additional references)

Words ending with "shwa": bushwa. (additional references)

Words containing "shwa": bushwah, bushwahs, bushwas, dishware, dishwares, dishwasher, dishwashers, dishwater, dishwaters, fishway, fishways, freshwater, freshwaters. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shwa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: haws, shaw, wash.

Words within the letters "a-h-s-w"

-1 letter: ash, has, haw, saw, sha, was, wha.

-2 letters: ah, as, aw, ha, sh.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-s-w"
 

+1 letter: awash, chaws, hawks, hawse, pshaw, schwa, shawl, shawm, shawn, shaws, swash, swath, thaws, washy, whams, whaps, whats, wisha.

 

+2 letters: bashaw, bushwa, cahows, cashaw, cashew, cushaw, hawser, hawses, pshaws, rawish, rewash, schwas, shadow, shawed, shawls, shawms, swarth, swatch, swathe, swaths, thraws, wahoos, washed, washer, washes, washup, whacks, whales, whangs, wharfs, whaups, wheals, wheats, whenas, wraths.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Shwa


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 77 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    .--.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01110111 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#119 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0077 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53748967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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