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Twinkly

Definition: Twinkly

Twinkly

Adjective

1. Smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus".

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


Synonyms: Twinkly

Synonyms: beamish (adj), smiling(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Twinkly

English words defined with "twinkly": beamishsmiling. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Twinkly

"Twinkly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Twinkly" is used about 7 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
Adverb (general)100%7133,076

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

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Expression: Twinkly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "twinkly": twinkly-eyed.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Twinkly

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

twinkly

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Twinkly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-k-l-n-t-w-y"

-1 letter: tinkly.

-2 letters: kilty, linky, linty, twiny.

-3 letters: inky, inly, kiln, kilt, knit, link, lint, liny, tiny, twin, tyin, wilt, wily, wink, winy.

-4 letters: ilk, ink, kin, kit, lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin, win, wit, wyn, yin.

-5 letters: in, it, li, ti.

 Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n-t-w-y"
 

+4 letters: tiddlywinks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Twinkly


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

54 77 69 6E 6B 6C 79

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)

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

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

01010100 01110111 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#119 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0077 0069 006E 006B 006C 0079

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

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

54897580777891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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