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WOM

"WOM" is a common misspelling or typo for: whom, woe, wok, womb, won, woo, worm, wow.

 

Specialty Definition: WOM

DomainDefinition

Computing

WOM write-only memory. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: WOM

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

WOM

EnglishWrite once memoryN/A

WOM

GermanWeltorganisation fuer MeteorologieGeography

WOM

ItalianPassaparola(Word Of Mouth)Nel linguaggio del marketing è quel tipo di pubblicità che inconsapevolmente fanno i consumatori quando dicono a paren-ti e amici di essere soddisfatti di un certo prodotto.N/A

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

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Synonyms: WOM

Synonyms by domain: Web objects management (computing), Word Of Mouth Nel linguaggio del marketing è quel tipo di pubblicità che inconsapevolmente fanno i consumatori quando dicono a paren-ti e amici di essere soddisfatti di un certo prodotto. (abbreviation, business).

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Modern Usage: WOM

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dou Wom Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: WOM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Against MacHismo: Rubem Alves, Leonardo Boff, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jose Miguez Bonino, Juan Luis Segundo ... and Others Talk About the Struggle of Wom (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: WOM

"WOM" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WOM" is used about 5 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
Unclassified Items100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WOM

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

wom

79

wam wom

9

n wom

6

blow job old wom

5

defen self wom

5

eat less.com wom

4

production wom

3

body building wom

2

mature wom

2

advertising consumer depict female in mass media n portray represent viewers wom

2

immobilien.com wom

2

submissive wom

2

signetics wom

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

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Derivations: WOM

Derivations

Words beginning with "WOM": woman, womaned, womanhood, womanhoods, womaning, womanise, womanised, womanises, womanish, womanishly, womanishness, womanishnesses, womanising, womanize, womanized, womanizer, womanizers, womanizes, womanizing, womankind, womanless, womanlier, womanliest, womanlike, womanliness, womanlinesses, womanly, womanpower, womanpowers, womans, womb, wombat, wombats, wombed, wombier, wombiest, womblike, wombs, womby, women, womenfolk, womenfolks, womenkind, womera, womeras, wommera, wommeras. (additional references)

Words containing "WOM": airwoman, airwomen, alderwoman, alderwomen, anchorwoman, anchorwomen, antiwoman, assemblywoman, assemblywomen, bondwoman, bondwomen, businesswoman, businesswomen, camerawoman, camerawomen, chairwoman, chairwomen, charwoman, charwomen, churchwoman, churchwomen, clergywoman, clergywomen, cochairwoman, cochairwomen, committeewoman, committeewomen, congresswoman, congresswomen, councilwoman, councilwomen, countrywoman, countrywomen, craftswoman, craftswomen, enwomb, enwombed, enwombing, enwombs, everywoman, everywomen, fisherwoman, fisherwomen, forewoman, forewomen, freedwoman, freedwomen, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, horsewoman, horsewomen. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mow.

Words within the letters "m-o-w"

-1 letter: mo, om, ow, wo.

 Words containing the letters "m-o-w"
 

+1 letter: meow, mown, mows, whom, womb, worm.

 

+2 letters: embow, meows, miaow, mowed, mower, whamo, whomp, woman, wombs, womby, women, worms, wormy.

 

+3 letters: awmous, beworm, bowman, bowmen, cowman, cowmen, deworm, embows, enwomb, haymow, mallow, marrow, meadow, mellow, meowed, miaows, minnow, morrow, mowers, mowing, unmown, wadmol, whammo, whilom, whomps, whomso, wisdom, womans, wombat, wombed, womera, wormed, wormer, wormil.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WOM


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

57 4F 4D

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)

01010111 01001111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#79 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 004F 004D

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

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

574947

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INDEX

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


  

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