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Definition: Trey |
TreyNoun1. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one. 2. One of four playing cards in a deck having three pips. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Trey" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "three". |
Date "trey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Trey \Trey\, noun. [Old French expression treis three, French trois, from Latin expression tres. See Three, and compare to Tray-trip.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TreySynonyms: deuce-ace (n), leash (n), tercet (n), ternary (n), ternion (n), terzetto (n), three (n), threesome (n), tierce (n), triad (n), trine (n), trinity (n), trio (n), triplet (n), troika (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card. |
Triality | Three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce, spike-team, trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon, trinomial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele, triskelion, trisula. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trey |
| Etymologies containing "trey": Tray-trip. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This Trey Shepherd is as cold and as ruthless as they come! (All My Children; writing credit: John L. Goldwater) Trey, I am tired of being married to your penis! (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) Trey, you have a bonerI can't discuss my notes if you have a boner. (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trey o' Hearts (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Trey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trey" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "trey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Trey | First name Male | 6,000 | 901 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "trey": ash-trey. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "trey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Tresh (ternary, threesome, three-throw, three-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Тройка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Trojka (third, three). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kolmonen (three). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Τριάρι αιγνίδι χαρτών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hármas (ternary, three, treble, triad, trine, trio, triple, triplet, triplicate, troika). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | troor (three persons, threesome, triad, Trinity, trio, triplet), tree (three). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eytray três (three, treble). (various references) Тройка. (various references) trojka u kartama. (various references) Üçlü (Trinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | treie. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trey": treys. (additional references) | |
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"Trey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrey, erey, irey, orey, Oterey, rey, strey, tarei, tarey, tary, tery, tewy, tey, tgry, tiey, tirey, Tirley, Toey, torey, trai, traj, travy, trea, treb, Treby, trec, Tredy, treg, treh, trei, treif, treim, treip, treky, trel, trely, treny, treo, trep, treq, tret, treu, trev, trex, treyf, treyn, trez, tricy, trigy, triky, trimy, trisy, troxy, troye, troyl, truey, truvy, trwy, trye, tryer, tryi, tryr, tryt, tuey, turey, Tyrley, tyry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trey" (pronounced trā") |
| 3 | t r ā" | astray, betray, portray, stray, tray. |
| 2 | -r ā" | Brae, Bray, defray, dray, fray, Gray, grey, hooray, hurray, pray, prey, puree, Ray, re, soiree, spray. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tyer, tyre. | |
| Words within the letters "e-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ret, rye, try, tye, yet. | |
-2 letters: er, et, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: entry, retry, teary, terry, toyer, treys, tuyer, twyer, tyers, tyred, tyres. | |
+2 letters: artery, azerty, baryte, betray, cherty, dryest, earthy, eatery, elytra, estray, ferity, fretty, gentry, gyrate, hearty, lyrate, myrtle, nitery, oyster, peltry, pertly, poetry, pretty, pyrite, qwerty, realty, retype, sentry, stayer, storey, styler, surety, termly, tetryl, theory, thyrse, towery, toyers, treaty, trebly, trendy, tressy, tryste, turkey, tuyere, tuyers, twyers, typier, verity, vestry, watery, wryest, xyster, yarest, yatter, yester. | |
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