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Definition: Newsy |
NewsyAdjective1. Full of news; "a newsy letter". 2. Prone to friendly informal communication. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NewsySynonyms: chatty (adj), gossipy (adj). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Newsy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Newsy" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
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 |
newsy | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "newsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plotë të reja, i pasur me lajme, gazetashitës (news agent, newsboy, newsdealer, newshawk, newsman, newsvendor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вестникарче (newsboy, newshawk, paper boy), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), пълен с новини, интересен (arresting, exciting, interesting, picturesque, provocative, sapid). (various references) | |
Czech | plný zpráv. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرخبر, دارای اخبارزیاد. (various references) | |
German | voller neuigkeiten. (various references) | |
Greek | κουσκουσούρησ (gossip, scandalmonger), γεμάτοσ ειδήσεισ, φιλοπερίεργοσ (inquisitive, nosey, nosy, quidnunc), ειδησιολογικόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rikkancsfiú (news-boy), hírekkel teli. (various references) | |
Italian | ricco di notizie, pieno di notizie. (various references) | |
Manx | skeealagh (anecdotal, communicatory, legendary), naigheagh (tale-bearing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewsynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | noticioso, cheio de novidades. (various references) | |
Russian | газетчик (newsboy, news-man, news-vendor, paper boy), любопытный (curious, nosey, nosy, pry), богатый новостями. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pun vesti. (various references) | |
Spanish | lleno de noticias. (various references) | |
Swedish | skvallrig (gossipy), full av nyheter. (various references) | |
Turkish | haberlerle dolu, dedikoduyla dolu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | язикатий (babbling, sharp tongued), багатий на новини, балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhiều tin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Newsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neisi, Nelsey, Nensey, nesi, nesly, ne-sw, newby, Newc, newca, Newcey, newes, Newey, Newis, Newns, newsie, newss, Newtie, Newtry, newty, newy, newz, Nissy, nisy, nowty, nowy, nuees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "newsy" (pronounced nuw"zē) |
| 3 | -uw" z ē | boozy, choosy, doozy, woozy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: news, sewn, snye, syne, wens, wyes, wyns, yens, yews. | |
-2 letters: ens, new, sen, sew, syn, wen, wye, wyn, yen, yes, yew. | |
-3 letters: en, es, ne, we, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: sawney, sinewy, sweeny, weensy. | |
+2 letters: anywise, endways, newsboy, sawneys, swinney, tawneys, winceys, witneys, wryness, wyverns, yawners. | |
+3 letters: awayness, bendways, eyewinks, laneways, newsboys, sternway, swannery, swinneys, unswayed, unwisely, wrynecks. | |
+4 letters: anywheres, entryways, greenways, honeydews, newlyweds, snowberry, sternways, winsomely, wrynesses. | |
+5 letters: awaynesses, cornerways, eyewitness, lawyerings, lengthways, moneyworts, newsweekly, newsworthy, nonlawyers, pennyworts, skywritten, sweepingly, windlessly, wyandottes, yellowfins. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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