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SAFA

"SAFA" is a common misspelling or typo for: safari, safe, saga, sofa.


Specialty Definition: SAFA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Safa in Arabia, according to Arabian legend, is the hill on which Adam and Eve came together, after having been parted for two hundred years, during which time they wandered homeless over the face of the earth. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: SAFA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

safa

EnglishSolar-array failure analysisN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: SAFA

Non-English Usage: "SAFA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (eraser).

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Usage Frequency: SAFA

"SAFA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAFA" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%8124,375

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SAFA

The following table summarizes the usage of "SAFA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SafaLast name13060,623
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAFA

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

safa

29

peyami safa

5

al safa

4

f reza safa

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SAFA

Derivations

Words beginning with "SAFA": safari, safaried, safariing, safaris. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SAFA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-s"

-1 letter: aas, fas.

-2 letters: aa, as, fa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-s"
 

+1 letter: afars, alfas, favas, haafs.

 

+2 letters: aftosa, facias, faenas, fangas, farads, fascia, fatwas, faunas, fracas, mafias, safari, sifaka, tafias.

 

+3 letters: affairs, affrays, afghans, aftosas, agrafes, alfakis, ashfall, caftans, carafes, facades, facials, fajitas, fallals, fanegas, fantasm, fantast, fantasy, farfals, farinas, fasciae, fascial, fascias, faucals, favelas, kaftans, maffias, raffias, safaris, sifakas, taffias, zaffars.

 

+4 letters: abfarads, affaires, affiants, afflatus, afghanis, agraffes, airfares, alfalfas, alfaquis, alforjas, ashfalls, camshaft, carfares, catfaces, catfalls, earflaps, facemask, fairways, falbalas, fanatics, fanfares, fantails, fantasia, fantasie, fantasms, fantasts, faradays, faradise, faradism, farinhas, farragos, fasciate, fastback, fastball, fatalism, fatalist, fatbacks, fatheads, favellas, fazendas, feasance, fermatas, flatcaps, flatcars, flatwash, flatways, fleabags, flyaways, fracases, fractals, fumarase, haftaras, handfast, hausfrau, infantas, infaunas, khalifas, leafages, makefast, parfaits, raftsman, ratafees, ratafias, safaried, safranin, seacraft, seafarer, taffetas, tailfans, waftages, warfares.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SAFA


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

53 41 46 41

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)

01010011 01000001 01000110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#70 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0046 0041

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

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

53354035

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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