Pavis

Definition: Pavis

Pavis

Noun

1. (medieval) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position.

Date "pavis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonym: Pavis

Synonym: pavise (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	River of Cradles: lands and peoples of New Pavis and the Zola Fel Valley (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Pavis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pavis" is used about 4 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)	100%	4	175,879

The following table summarizes the usage of "pavis" 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
Pavis	Last name	100	80,002
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.

Language		Translations for "pavis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		щит (dash, gate, guard, mantelet, pad, screen, shield, windbreak). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pavis": pavise, paviser, pavisers, pavises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-p-s-v"
	-1 letter: pias, spiv, visa.
	-2 letters: ais, asp, pas, pia, pis, psi, sap, sip, spa, vas, via, vis.
	-3 letters: ai, as, is, pa, pi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s-v"
	+1 letter: parvis, pavins, pavise, spavie, spavin.
	+2 letters: parvise, passive, pavings, paviors, paviser, pavises, peavies, piasava, spavies, spaviet, spavins, vampish.
	+3 letters: captives, pahlavis, parvises, passives, paviours, pavisers, peccavis, piasavas, piassava, plausive, pluvials, prevails, privates, spavined, vampires, vaporise, vaporish, vespiary.
	+4 letters: anviltops, deprivals, expansive, impassive, livetraps, optatives, oviparous, parvolins, passivate, passively, passivism, passivist, passivity, pavilions, pavillons, pervasion, pervasive, piassavas, privacies, privatest, privatise, privatism, tipstaves, vampirish, vampirism, vanaspati, vapidness, vaporings, vaporised, vaporises, vaporizes, vicarship.
	+5 letters: absorptive, adsorptive, appositive, appraisive, ascriptive, assumptive, captivates, disapprove, evaporites, grapevines, nonpassive, operatives, overplaids, overpraise, parvovirus, passivated, passivates, passivisms, passivists, persuasive, pervasions, pikestaves, privateers, privations, privatised, privatises, privatisms, privatives, privatizes, purgatives, pursuivant, reprievals, separative, supravital, vampirisms, vanaspatis, vapidities, vaporising, vaporizers, verapamils, vespiaries, vibraharps, vicarships, videotapes, viviparous.
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