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Definition: Spayed |
SpayedAdjective1. (of a female animal) having the ovaries removed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Get your pets spayed or neutered. (references) | |
Be a responsible pet owner by keeping vaccinations current for all dogs, cats, and ferrets, keeping your cats and ferrets inside and your dogs under direct supervision, calling animal control to remove stray animals from your neighborhood, and consider having your pets spayed or neutered. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Barker | Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. Good bye, everybody. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Spayed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Spayed" is used about 17 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 76.47% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spayed": have it spayed ♦ spayed female. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
spayed | 40 |
dog spayed | 13 |
cat spayed | 9 |
neutered spayed | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spayed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | chatte opérée (spayed female), chatte neutre (spayed female). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | entfernte die Eierstöcke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | spoiyt (castrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayedspay удалять яичники у/ выхолощенный. (various references) kısırlaştırmak (alter, caponize, castrate, have it neutered, have it spayed, neuter, spay, sterilize, unman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Spayed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sapey, sapide, sayde, sayed, Sayeef, sayeth, sayid, Sayyaf, spabed, spamed, spawed, spyed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: payed, spade, spaed. | |
-2 letters: aped, apes, apse, ayes, daps, days, deys, dyes, easy, espy, eyas, pads, pase, pays, peas, peds, pyas, pyes, sade, spae, spay, sped, yaps, yeas. | |
-3 letters: ads, ape, asp, aye, ays, dap, day, dey, dye, eds, pad, pas, pay, pea, ped, pes, pya, pye, sad, sae, sap, say, sea, spa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dyspnea, keypads, splayed, sprayed. | |
+2 letters: bypassed, dyspneal, dyspneas, dyspnoea, speedway, synapsed. | |
+3 letters: clepsydra, copyreads, diaphyses, displayed, dyspepsia, dyspnoeas, ependymas, misplayed, paralysed, parsleyed, paygrades, pederasty, playdates, pyodermas, redisplay, resprayed, speedways, underpays, unsprayed. | |
+4 letters: adipocytes, amplidynes, clepsydrae, clepsydras, depositary, despicably, diaphyseal, dispensary, dyspepsias, hydrospace, pachyderms, playfields, polyamides, poppyheads, presidiary, pyranoside, redisplays, sandpapery, sleepyhead, syncopated, underplays. | |
+5 letters: asphyxiated, cardplayers, caryopsides, copyreaders, cyclopedias, desperately, discrepancy, disparately, displayable, handyperson, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, hydrospaces, hypermedias, methyldopas, plasmolyzed, polyandries, predynastic, psychedelia, pyranosides, redisplayed, sleepyheads, splayfooted, stipendiary, swordplayer, sympathised, sympathized. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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