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Definitions: Faerie |
FaerieAdjective1. Or or pertaining to or resembling (especially in delicacy) a fairy or fairies. Noun1. Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers. 2. The enchanted realm of fairies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faerie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: FaerieSynonyms: faery (n), fairy (n), fairyland (n), sprite (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Faerie |
| English words defined with "faerie": Spenserian, Spenserian stanza. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "faerie": Arthegal ♦ Florimel ♦ Hook or Crook ♦ Ludgate ♦ Mirrors. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Faerie Tale Theatre (1982) | |
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| "Faerie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Faerie" is used about 68 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) | 97.06% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "faerie": airy-faerie, mistris-faerie. | |
| 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 |
faerie.com soup | 61 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "faerie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Zanë (fairy, Fay, pixy, spirit, wood nymph), Vend Përrallor. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Приказен, 'ълшебен Свят, 'ълшебен, Царство На Феите. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Tündér (elf, fairy, Fay, genie, pixie, pixy, sprite, sylph, urchin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peri (faery, nymph). (various references) | |
Italian | Fatato (fairy), Paese Delle Fate (fairyland). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aeriefay.(various references) | |
Russian | Фея (Fay), 'олшебное Царство. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zemlja iz mašte. (various references) | |
Swedish | Feernas Värld (faery), Fe- (faery, fairy), Förtrollning (charm, enchantment, faery, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell). (various references) | |
Thai | "ินแ"นในเทพนิยาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | Periler Ülkesi, Periler Ýle Ýlgili, Peri (elf, faery, fairy, Fay, genie, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), Masallar Diyarı (faery), Hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiên thai các n ng tiên (faery), tưởng tượng huyền ảo (faery), cảnh tiên (faery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faerie": faeries. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: feriae. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-r" | |
-1 letter: aerie, afire, feria. | |
-2 letters: fair, fare, fear, fere, fiar, fire, frae, free, reef, reif, rife. | |
-3 letters: air, are, arf, ear, era, ere, far, fee, fer, fie, fir, ire, ree, ref, rei, ria, rif. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, ar, ef, er, fa, if, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-r" | |
+1 letter: faeries, filaree, freesia, leafier. | |
+2 letters: aerified, aerifies, afebrile, balefire, fakeries, featlier, ferriage, feterita, figeater, filagree, filarees, fireable, firebase, flanerie, freakier, freesias, rarefied, rarefier, rarefies, wakerife. | |
+3 letters: afterlife, aftertime, balefires, briefcase, cafeteria, ceasefire, farseeing, feodaries, ferriages, feteritas, feudaries, fieldfare, figeaters, filagreed, filagrees, firebases, firebreak, firedrake, fireplace, firewater, flaneries, freakiest, fricassee, friedcake, inferable, interface, lifesaver, pilferage, rarefiers, reaffixed, reaffixes, refinance, refrained, reinflate. | |
+4 letters: afterimage, afterlives, afterpiece, aftertimes, alderflies, antifreeze, beautifier, briefcases, cafeterias, ceasefires, fairleader, fairnesses, farrieries, fatherlike, featherier, feathering, federacies, federalism, federalist, federalize, federating, federation, federative, feracities, fieldfares, figurehead, filterable, fireballer, firebreaks, firedrakes, firefanged, fireplaced, fireplaces, firewalled, firewaters, flackeries, flatteries, forecaddie, foreladies, franchisee, fraternize, freakiness, freebasing, freemartin, freightage, fricasseed, fricassees, friedcakes, interfaced, interfaces, lifesavers, luciferase, manifester, overfacile, perfoliate, persiflage, pilferable, pilferages, pinfeather, prefinance, reaffirmed, refillable, refinanced, refinances, refractile, refractive, reinflated, reinflates, repacified, repacifies, verifiable, vociferate. | |
+5 letters: afterimages, afterpieces, antifreezes, antiwelfare, beautifiers, beautifuler, beneficiary, certifiable, certificate, deferential, defibrinate, deformalize, deformative, differentia, enfranchise, fairleaders, fallaleries, farewelling, featheriest, featherings, federalisms, federalists, federalized, federalizes, federations, ferrimagnet, feudatories, figureheads, filagreeing, fireballers, firecracker, forecaddies, forfeitable, fragmentize, frailnesses, franchisees, fraternized, fraternizer, fraternizes, freelancing, freeloading, freemartins, freightages, hereinafter, imperforate, inferential, irrefutable, lifeguarded, luciferases, manifesters, overfatigue, overfearing, overinflate, persiflages, pinfeathers, preachified, preachifies, prefinanced, prefinances, proliferate, rectifiable, redefeating, refashioned, refastening, referential, reformative, refrainment, refrangible, refrigerant, refrigerate, requalified, requalifies, rubefacient, spearfished, spearfishes, steamfitter, vociferated, vociferates. | |
| 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)46 61 65 72 69 65 |
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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)01000110 01100001 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a e r i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0065 0072 0069 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)406771847571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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