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| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Descriptive of an irregular yarn or slubbing in which local concentrations of twist have accentuated the irregular appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Entertainers (l to r) Conway Twitty, Chubby Checker, Dick Clark, full-length portrait, facing front, doing "the Twist", a dance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "TWITTY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "TWITTY" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "TWITTY" 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 |
| Twitty | Last name | 1,000 | 7,933 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Twitty, TX |
| 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 "TWITTY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | uregelmæssigt, overdrejet. (various references) | |
Dutch | onregelmatig (abnormal, deviating, divergent, irregular, uneven). (various references) | |
French | surtordu. (various references) | |
German | überdreht (hyped, overexcited, overwinds). (various references) | |
Greek | νήμα ανώμαλο, φυτίλι ανώμαλο, φλαμέ. (various references) | |
Italian | sovratorto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ittytway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fio irregular (irregular yarn, uneven yarn). (various references) | |
Spanish | irregular (aberrant, abnormal, fitful, irregular, uneven). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-t-t-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: witty. | |
-2 letters: twit. | |
-3 letters: wit. | |
-4 letters: it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-t-t-t-w-y" | |
+2 letters: twittery. | |
+5 letters: typewritten, wettability. | |
| 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. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Cities 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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