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Definition: Ern |
ErnNoun1. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ern" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the seriousness". |
Date "ern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (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 |
ERN | English | European Remuneration Network | N/A |
ERN | Swedish | Nakfa | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ErnSynonyms: erne (n), gray sea eagle (n), white-tailed sea eagle (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ern |
| Non-English Usage: "Ern" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (earnest, pledge). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Ern" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Ern" is used about 6 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) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Ern" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the seriousness". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ern." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ernst | Male | Dutch | Ernest |
| Earnest | Male | English | Ernest |
| Ern | Male | English | Ernest |
| Ernest | Male | English | N/A |
| Ernesta | Female | English | Ernest |
| Ernestine | Female | English | Ernest |
| Ernie | Male | English | Ernest |
| Erna | Female | German | Ernest |
| Ernst | Male | German | Ernest |
| Ernõ | Male | Hungarian | Ernest |
| Ernesto | Male | Italian | Ernest |
| Ernesto | Male | Portuguese | Ernest |
| Ernesto | Male | Spanish | Ernest |
| 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 |
eet ern | 83 |
eet ern.com | 70 |
ern | 26 |
a4hrung c3 ern | 21 |
com eet ern | 11 |
eat ern | 8 |
code eet ern | 6 |
eet ern game | 3 |
ern ett | 3 |
enterprise ern | 2 |
e4hrung ern | 2 |
eet ern n | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | นกอินทรีทะเลปีกยาวพันธุ์ยุโรป มีชื่อใน าษาละตินว่า Haliactus albicilla (erne). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ern": erne, ernes, erns. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ern": antimodern, astern, bittern, casern, cavern, cistern, cithern, cittern, concern, decern, discern, eastern, extern, fern, gittern, govern, hern, hypermodern, intern, kern, klavern, lantern, leathern, lectern, lucern, luthern, midwestern, misgovern, modern, nebenkern, nonconcern, northeastern, northern, northwestern, overconcern, overgovern, pastern, pattern, postern, postmodern, premodern, quartern, quern, repattern, saltern, secern, silvern, slattern, southeastern, southern, southwestern. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ern": afternoon, afternoons, alternate, alternated, alternately, alternates, alternating, alternation, alternations, alternative, alternatively, alternativeness, alternativenesses, alternatives, alternator, alternators, antigovernment, antimodernist, antimodernists, antimoderns, asternal, bernicle, bernicles, bitterness, bitternesses, bitterns, bladdernut, bladdernuts, butternut, butternuts, cabernet, cabernets, caserne, casernes, caserns, caverned, cavernicolous, caverning, cavernous, cavernously, caverns, cernuous, chernozem, chernozemic, chernozems, cisterna, cisternae, cisternal, cisterns, citherns, citterns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bren, earn, erne, erns, fern, hern, kern, near, nerd, rein, rend, rent, rune, tern, wren. | |
+2 letters: anear, anger, antre, arena, arpen, boner, borne, brens, brent, brine, caner, crane, crone, denar, diner, drone, earns, ender, enorm, enrol, enter, entry, enure, ernes, ferns, ferny, finer, frena, genre, genro, goner, green, henry, herns, heron, honer, inert, infer, inker, inner, inter, inure, irone, kerne, kerns, krone, learn, liner, loner, miner, nacre, namer, nares, nears, nerds, nerdy, nerol, nerts, nertz, nerve, nervy, never, newer, nicer, niter, nitre, noter, nuder, nurse, onery, owner, preen, prone, prune, quern, ramen, rance, ranee, range, raven, recon, redan, redon, regna, reign, reink, reins, reman, renal, rends, renew, renig, renin, rente, rents, repin, reran, rerun, resin, rewan, rewin, rewon, rinse, ripen, risen, riven, rouen, roven, rowen, rumen, runes, saner, senor, serin, siren, snare, sneer, snore, stern, syren, tenor, terne, terns, toner, treen, trend, trine, trone, tuner, under, urine, wrens, yearn, zoner. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000101 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 006E |
| 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)398480 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Derived from 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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