Wannabe

Definition: Wannabe

Wannabe

Noun

1. An ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes".

Specialty Definitions: Wannabe

Domain	Definitions
Slang	Noun. Source: A blending together of the words "want to be". Definition: A young person (usually under 18) who hangs around and admires the officers. The person described usually is interested in becoming an officer himself. Context: Used between members of the speech community. Not used around the actual "wannabe.". Social Source: Young Law Enforcement Officers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
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Synonyms: Wannabe

Synonyms: aspirant (n), aspirer (n), hopeful (n), wannabee (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Wannabe

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Wannabe (2001)
Song Titles	Wannabe (performing artist: Spice Girls)
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Commercial Usage: Wannabe

Domain	Title
Books	Wannabe (reference) Wannabe a Spice Girl: A Beginner's Guide to Girl Power (reference) Wannabe Guide to Classical Music (reference) Wannabe Guide to Golf (reference) Wannabe Guide to Marketing (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Wannabe Ranger (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Wannabe [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Wannabe

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Usage Frequency: Wannabe

"Wannabe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Wannabe" is used about 11 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 (singular)	72.73%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	9.09%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.09%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

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

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Expression: Wannabe

Hyphenated Usage
	Containing "wannabe": i-wannabe-loved.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wannabe

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
wannabe	88
girl spice wannabe	15
lyrics wannabe	14
girl lyrics spice wannabe	12
amputee wannabe	11
brace leg wannabe	10
wannabe porn star	7
porn wannabe	6
model wannabe	6
by girl lyrics spice wannabe	4
bootsforum wannabe	3
katie wannabe	2
jessy sally wannabe	2
sports wannabe	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Wannabe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wannabe": wannabes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Wannabe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-n-n-w"
	-2 letters: bwana, nawab.
	-3 letters: anew, anna, bane, bean, naan, nabe, nana, wane, wean.
	-4 letters: aba, ana, ane, awa, awe, awn, baa, ban, ben, nab, nae, nan, naw, neb, new, wab, wae, wan, web, wen.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, an, aw, ba, be, en, na, ne, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-n-n-w"
	+1 letter: wannabes.
	+5 letters: unanswerable, unanswerably.
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