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Definition: FIFER |
FIFERNoun1. One who plays on a fife. |
Date "FIFER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: FIFER |
| English words defined with "FIFER": Whiffler. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cottage occupied by Ex-Gov. Fifer, Charlevoix, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FIFER" 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 |
| Fifer | Last name | 1,000 | 11,872 |
| 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 |
fifer | 9 |
michelle fifer | 7 |
fifer nicki | 3 |
fifer middle school | 3 |
chad fifer | 3 |
fifer manet | 3 |
fifer michel | 2 |
cotterell fifer mitchell | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FIFER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pfeifer (Piper, pipers, whistler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | Αυλητήσ (Piper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iferfay fluieraş (whistler). (various references) fifre çalan kimse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FIFER": fifers. (additional references) | |
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"FIFER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fafir, feiffer, feoffor, feyfar, ficer, fiefe, fier, fifa, fifery, fifew, fiffer, figer, fulfer, Iffa, kifer, vifer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FIFER" (pronounced fī"fer) |
| 3 | -ī" f er | cipher, cypher, decipher, heifer, lifer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-r" | |
-1 letter: fief, fife, fire, reif, rife, riff. | |
-2 letters: eff, fer, fie, fir, iff, ire, ref, rei, rif. | |
-3 letters: ef, er, if, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-r" | |
+1 letter: differ, fifers, griffe, iffier, niffer, riffed, riffle. | |
+2 letters: affaire, affixer, buffier, daffier, differs, firefly, forfeit, foxfire, giraffe, griffes, huffier, miffier, niffers, officer, piaffer, puffier, reaffix, reffing, riffled, riffler, riffles, sheriff, sniffer, stiffer, whiffer. | |
+3 letters: affaires, affirmed, affirmer, affixers, chaffier, chuffier, cliffier, coiffeur, coiffure, differed, diffuser, draffier, farmwife, febrific, firefang, fluffier, forfeits, foxfires, giraffes, gruffier, niffered, offering, officers, piaffers, reaffirm, rifflers, rufflier, rufflike, seriffed, sheriffs, siffleur, sniffers, sniffier, sniffler, snuffier, spiffier, stuffier, sufficer, tariffed, whiffers, whiffler, writeoff. | |
| 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 49 46 45 52 |
| 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)01000110 01001001 01000110 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I F E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0046 0045 0052 |
| 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)4043403952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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