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Definition: REIS |
REISNoun1. A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. 2. The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents. Plural1. Of Rei |
Date "REIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
REIS | English | Regional Economic Information System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: REIS |
| English words defined with "REIS": Rais. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "REIS": Reis Effendi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "REIS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (journey, travel, trip, voyage), Bavarian (rice), Dutch (journey, trip, voyage), Faeroese (occasion, time), Frisian (journey, trip, voyage), German (rice, scion, shoot, slip, sprig, twig), Manx (race ), Turkish (chairman, chief, head), Welsh (rice). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Een Vreemde reis of de surrealistische wereld (1966) Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis (1965) De Reis om de wereld in 80 dagen (1957) Een Reis doorheen België (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | S.S. William E. Reis. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gestern noch welkte der Reis, doch morgen fliesst das Wasser reichlich, und das Feld grunt. Sogar den Himmel besiegt der Mensch, wenn er entschieden ist. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "REIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "REIS" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "REIS" 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 |
| Reis | Last name | 4,000 | 3,304 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "REIS": Reis Effendi. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "REIS": Reis-ul-kuttab. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "REIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | رئيس (boss, chef, chief, elder, head, leader, president, ruler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eisray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "REIS": reissue, reissued, reissuer, reissuers, reissues, reissuing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "REIS": hexereis, milreis, nereis, schwarmereis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "REIS": greisen, greisens, nereises, ogreish, ogreism, ogreisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REIS" (pronounced rē"z) |
| 3 | r ē" z | agrees, brees, breeze, decrees, degrees, disagrees, drees, frees, freeze, frieze, Rees, retirees, sprees, threes, trees. |
| 2 | -ē" z | absentees, abductees, adoptees, amputees, appease, appointees, bees, Cees, cheese, chemise, conferees, Dees, deportees, designees, detainees, devotees, disease, displease, draftees, ease, enlistees, enrollees, escapees, expertise, fees, fleas, flees, foresees, franchisees, Geez, gies, guarantees, guaranties, honorees, inductees, internees, interviewees, Jeez, journalese, keas, keys, knees, Leas, Lees, lessees, licensees, nominees, overseas, parolees, pawnees, peas, Pease, pleas, please, referees, returnees, rupees, seas, sees, seize, siamese, skees, skis, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, teas, tease, tees, these, trainees, trapeze, trustees, underseas, unease, vees, wheeze. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ires, rise, sire. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ers, ire, rei, res, sei, ser, sir, sri. | |
-2 letters: er, es, is, re, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arise, biers, birse, bries, cires, cries, dries, emirs, fires, fries, frise, heirs, hires, keirs, kiers, liers, mires, miser, osier, peris, piers, pries, prise, raise, reifs, reins, resid, resin, ribes, rices, rides, riels, riles, rimes, rinse, ripes, risen, riser, rises, rites, rives, serai, serif, serin, shier, shire, sieur, siker, sired, siree, siren, sires, siver, sizer, skier, slier, speir, spier, spire, tiers, tires, tries, viers, vires, weirs, wires, wiser, wries. | |
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