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Ralegh

Definition: Ralegh

Ralegh

Noun

1. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Ralegh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Ralegh

Synonyms: Raleigh (n), Sir Walter Ralegh (n), Sir Walter Raleigh (n), Walter Ralegh (n), Walter Raleigh (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ralegh

English words defined with "Ralegh": Sir Walter RaleghWalter Ralegh. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ralegh

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado (reference)

  • Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Michael Drayton, and Sir John Davies (Everyman's Library) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ralegh

"Ralegh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ralegh" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ralegh

Expressions using "Ralegh": Sir Walter Ralegh Walter Ralegh. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Ralegh": Ralegh-radford.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ralegh

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sir walter ralegh

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ralegh

Language Translations for "ralegh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

aleghray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ralegh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-l-r"

-1 letter: argle, gerah, glare, haler, lager, large, regal.

-2 letters: ager, earl, egal, gale, gear, hale, hare, harl, heal, hear, herl, lear, lehr, rage, rale, real, rhea.

-3 letters: age, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, hae, hag, her, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, rah, reg.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ah, al, ar, eh, el, er, ha, he, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-l-r"
 

+1 letter: haggler, laugher.

 

+2 letters: hagglers, laughers, laughter, lethargy, litharge, narghile, nargileh, thirlage.

 

+3 letters: archangel, ashlering, earthling, gasholder, gearwheel, ghastlier, haltering, heralding, larghetto, lathering, laughters, lethargic, litharges, logorrhea, narghiles, nargilehs, oleograph, phalanger, shearling, slaughter, telegraph, thirlages.

 

+4 letters: alongshore, altogether, anglerfish, archangels, archeology, blathering, challenger, chargeable, earthlight, earthlings, gasholders, gearwheels, geothermal, gonorrheal, grapholect, heliograph, highlander, horselaugh, languisher, largemouth, larghettos, leathering, lethargies, lighterage, loggerhead, logorrheas, longhaired, oleographs, overslaugh, phalangers, pharyngeal, phlebogram, rehandling, ringhalses, shearlings, slathering, slaughters, telegraphs, telegraphy, theurgical.

 

+5 letters: altogethers, archaeology, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, challengers, cliffhanger, earthlights, enthralling, farthingale, flexography, generalship, grapholects, heliographs, highlanders, holographed, holographer, horselaughs, hourglasses, lamplighter, languishers, largemouths, lighterages, loggerheads, nightwalker, oligarchies, overhauling, overslaughs, paleography, phlebograms, phraseology, polygrapher, preachingly, rechallenge, relaunching, rheological, searchingly, searchlight, slaughtered, slaughterer, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, xylographer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ralegh


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 6C 65 67 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .-    .-..    .    --.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#103 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 006C 0065 0067 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

526778717374

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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