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WAVEY

Definition: WAVEY

WAVEY

Noun

1. The snow goose.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Wavey \Wa"vey\, noun. (Zo["o]l.) The snow goose. [Canadian, & Local United States]. (references)

 

Crosswords: WAVEY

English words defined with "WAVEY": snow goose. (references)

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Digital Photo Gallery: WAVEY
 

"Wavey post" by Michelle Kwajafa
Commentary: "A post in the sun."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: WAVEY

"WAVEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WAVEY" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WAVEY

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

hair wavey

3

hair style wavey

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

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Derivations: WAVEY

Derivations

Words beginning with "WAVEY": waveys. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WAVEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-v-w-y"

-1 letter: wave, wavy.

-2 letters: ave, awe, aye, vaw, wae, way, wye, yaw, yea, yew.

-3 letters: ae, aw, ay, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-v-w-y"
 

+1 letter: wavery, waveys.

 

+3 letters: avowedly, driveway, everyway, giveaway, overwary.

 

+4 letters: driveways, giveaways, overweary.

 

+5 letters: everywoman, wavelessly, waveringly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WAVEY


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

57 41 56 45 59

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

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

=

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 01000001 01010110 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

W A V E Y

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0056 0045 0059

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

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

5735563959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Digital Art
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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