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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Womble n. [Unisys UK: from British puppet-show characters] A user who has great difficulty in communicating their requirements and/or in using the resulting software. Extreme case of luser. An especially senior or high-ranking womble is referred to as Great-Uncle Bulgaria. Source: Jargon File. |
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| "WOMBLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WOMBLE" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "WOMBLE" 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 |
| Womble | Last name | 2,000 | 5,213 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
rose and womble | 140 |
carlyle womble | 50 |
rose and womble realty | 43 |
womble | 40 |
carlyle rice sandridge womble | 12 |
millicent womble | 10 |
estate real rose womble | 10 |
womble mpeg2vcr | 5 |
realty womble | 5 |
carlisle womble | 5 |
company realty rose womble | 4 |
inn womble | 4 |
obituary womble | 4 |
reality rose womble | 3 |
realtor rose womble | 3 |
carlysle womble | 3 |
tiffany womble | 3 |
company womble | 2 |
carlyle sandridge womble | 2 |
trail womble | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-o-w" | |
-1 letter: below, bowel, elbow, embow. | |
-2 letters: blew, blow, bole, bowl, lobe, lowe, meow, mewl, mole, womb. | |
-3 letters: bel, bow, elm, lob, low, mel, mew, mob, mol, mow, obe, ole, owe, owl, web, woe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, el, em, lo, me, mo, oe, om, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-o-w" | |
+1 letter: embowel. | |
+2 letters: embowels, womblike. | |
+3 letters: elbowroom, emboweled. | |
+4 letters: disembowel, elbowrooms, emboweling, embowelled, longbowmen, middlebrow, mindblower, noblewoman, noblewomen, snowmobile, tumbledown. | |
+5 letters: blameworthy, disembowels, embowelling, middlebrows, mindblowers, snowmobiler, snowmobiles, warmblooded. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 4F 4D 42 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -- -... .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01001111 01001101 01000010 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W O M B L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 004F 004D 0042 004C 0045 |
| 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)574947364639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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