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Definition: Valse |
ValseNoun1. A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "valse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VALSE | English | Valuation for Sustainable Environments | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ValseSynonym: waltz (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Valse |
| Non-English Usage: "Valse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (waltz), French (valse, waltz), Manx (waltz). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Valse à trois (1974) De Valse noot (1963) La Valse du gorille (1959) Valse brillante (1948) La Valse blanche (1943) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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Theater & Movies | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Valse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Valse" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "valse": valse-scherzo. | |
| 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 |
valse | 16 |
triste valse | 4 |
diploma valse | 4 |
amelie d la valse | 3 |
dernière la valse | 3 |
brillante grande valse | 3 |
identiteitskaart valse | 2 |
amélie d la valse | 2 |
des la lilas valse | 2 |
la valse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "valse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | Ð'алÑ. (various references) | |
French | projet Evaluation pour des environnements durables (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments), Evaluation pour des environnements durables (Valuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references) | |
German | Waltz. (various references) | |
Greek | χοÏεÏω (dance, jig, waltz), Î'άλσ. (various references) | |
Italian | progetto Valutazione per ambienti sostenibili (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alsevay.(various references) | |
Spanish | proyecto Valuación para ambientes sostenibles (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "valse": valses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: laves, salve, selva, slave, vales, veals. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-s-v" | |
-1 letter: ales, aves, lase, lave, lavs, leas, leva, sale, save, seal, vale, vase, veal, vela. | |
-2 letters: ale, als, ave, els, las, lav, lea, lev, sae, sal, sea, sel, vas. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: avulse, calves, claves, gavels, halves, lavers, leaves, loaves, navels, ravels, salved, salver, salves, selvas, serval, silvae, slaved, slaver, slaves, slavey, sleave, sylvae, valets, valise, valses, values, valves, velars, versal, vestal. | |
+2 letters: absolve, alcoves, alevins, avulsed, avulses, carvels, clavers, cleaves, coevals, devisal, enslave, estival, favelas, glaives, gravels, halvers, lavages, laveers, leavens, leavers, lekvars, levants, lovages, maglevs, marvels, reveals, revisal, salvage, salvers, salvoed, salvoes, savable, saveloy, selvage, servals, several, slavers, slavery, slaveys, sleaved, sleaves, solvate, suavely, travels, vakeels, valines, valises, valleys, valuers, varlets, vealers, verbals, verglas, vesical, vestals, vestral. | |
+3 letters: aasvogel, absolved, absolver, absolves, aestival, alewives, allovers, allusive, alveolus, aversely, behalves, beslaved, bivalves, caravels, cavilers, cervelas, claviers, cleavers, coaevals, deleaves, devalues, devisals, disvalue, elatives, elevates, enclaves, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, evangels, exclaves, favellas, festival, flavines, flavones, foveolas, haverels, javelins, juvenals, klaverns, lavaboes, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, layovers, leaviest, leavings, levators, loveseat, misvalue, movables, novellas, ovalness, overalls, overlaps, overlays, oversale, oversalt, ovulates, palavers, plausive, prevails, ravelers, ravelins, reavails, removals, revalues, reversal, revisals, revivals, salivate, salvable, salvaged, salvagee, salvager, salvages, savagely, saveable, saveloys, selvaged, selvages, servable, severals, shavable, shrieval, slavered, slaverer, sleaving, solvable, solvated, solvates, unravels, vacuoles, valances, valences, valguses, valorise, valuates, valvules, varioles, vaselike, vaulters, vealiest, vedalias, ventails, ventrals, vesicula, vesperal, vestally, vestural, vilayets, villages, violates, virelais, virelays, visceral, vitalise, vocables, vocalise, voltages, vorlages, vulgates, waveless, wavelets, zelkovas. | |
+4 letters: aasvogels, ablatives, absolvers, abusively, acervulus, adversely, advisable, advisedly, aliveness, almsgiver, alveolars, aventails, bivalents, bloviates, bolivares, calvaries, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavallies, cavalries, cavillers, cervelats, chevalets, clavicles, cleavages, conclaves, coveralls, crevalles, deprivals, devisable, disvalued, disvalues, dovetails, elevateds, elevators, eluviates, endleaves, enslavers, enslaving, evaluates, evasively, evenfalls, festivals, flashover, flavorers, flyleaves, galvanise, gavelocks, graveless, halflives, havelocks, illatives, intervals, javelinas, kalewives, ladyloves, lavaliers, lavenders, laverocks, lavishers, lavishest, lawgivers, laxatives, levanters, levatores, leverages, levigates, levirates, levitates, levodopas, lifesaver, livetraps, locatives, loveseats, marvelous, massively, medievals, megavolts, misvalued, misvalues, moveables, movieolas, outvalues, ovalities, ovarioles, overcalls, overhauls, overlades, overlands, overleaps, overloads, overplans, overplays, oversales, oversalts, overscale, overtalks, overzeals, palsgrave, passively, ravelings, ravellers, relatives, reprovals, revealers, reversals, reviewals, revisable, rivalries, salivated, salivates, salvagees, salvagers, savorless, severable, severally, severalty, shaveling, shavetail, slaverers, slaveries, slavering, suasively, sylvanite, travelers, travelogs, traversal, trivalves, univalves, universal, upheavals, valencias, valencies, valerates, valerians, valiances, validates, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorizes, valuables, valueless, valveless, valvelets, vandalise, variables, varietals, vassalage, vaultiest, velarizes, vendables, verbalism, verbalist, verglases, vernacles, versatile, versional, verticals, vesiculae, vesicular, vesperals, vestigial, vigesimal, villagers, violaters, visitable, visualise, visualize, vitalised, vitalises, vitalizes, vocalised, vocalises, vocalizes, volatiles, volcanoes, volplanes, vulcanise, vulgarest, vulgarise, walkovers. | |
+5 letters: aardwolves, abrasively, absolutive, adhesively, adverbials, afterlives, alleviates, allusively, almsgivers, antinovels, assaultive, autoclaves, avalanches, aversively, boulevards, calmatives, calvadoses, canvaslike, cavalcades, cervelases, champleves, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, convalesce, covalences, cowlstaves, cultivates, curveballs, daredevils, devaluates, elevations, evaluators, evangelism, evangelist, everglades, flagstaves, flashovers, flavanones, flavorless, flavorsome, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, immovables, insolvable, intervales, invasively, investable, jovialties, larvicides, lavalieres, lavatories, lavishness, leavenings, leviathans, lifesavers, lifesaving, lixiviates, longleaves, marvellous, meatloaves, mediaevals, mooncalves, observable, observably, olivaceous, ovalnesses, overclaims, overcleans, overclears, overglazes, overlabors, overlavish, overlearns, overpedals, overplaids, overplants, oversalted, overscaled, overslaugh, overvalues, paloverdes, palsgraves, prevalents, ravellings, ravelments, ravenously, relativism, relativist, relevances, reprievals, reservable, resolvable, retrievals, revaluates, revelators, revictuals, revitalise, revivalism, revivalist, salverform, shavelings, shavetails, shinleaves, shrievalty, silverback, silverware, simulative, starveling, survivable, sylvanites, televisual, transvalue, travellers, traversals, trivialise, univalents, universals, unsolvable, vacillates, vagilities, valentines, valiancies, validities, vandalised, vandalises, vandalizes, varicellas, varletries, vassalages, vegetables, venalities, venialness, ventilates, verapamils, verbalisms, verbalists, verbalizes, vernalizes, versicular, vesiculate, vestibular, vestmental, victualers, videolands, vigilances, vigilantes, villainess, villainies, villenages, violaceous, viscerally, visualised, visualises, visualized, visualizer, visualizes, vitalities, vocalities, vocalizers, volatilise, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanizes, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes, wavelessly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 6C 73 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-.. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a l s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 006C 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667788571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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