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Definition: SPIRY |
SPIRYAdjective1. Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. 2. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine. |
Date "SPIRY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: SPIRY |
| Etymologies containing "SPIRY": Spearmint. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SPIRY" 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 |
| Spiry | Last name | 170 | 49,272 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SPIRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спираловиден (gyrate, helical, spiral, turbinate, winding), спирален (convolute, convoluted, corkscrew, gyrate, helical, spiral), висок и тънък, островръх (acuminate, arrow-headed, peaked, peaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπειρώδησ, υψηλόσ και λεπτόσ (spindling), ελικοειδήσ (helical, sinuous, spiral, tortuous, turbinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | a guglia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | speekeenagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iryspay остроконечный;спиральный. (various references) spiral (helical, loop, spiral), sivri tepeli (peaky, spired), sivri (acute, beaked, edged, jagged, nipping, pointed, pungent, sharp, sharp pointed, spinose, spinous, spired), sarmal (convolute, convoluted, curled, helical, spiral, spiri-, voluted, winding), helezoni (helical, spiri-, winding). (various references) xoắn ốc có chóp hình nón, có chóp nhọn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SPIRY": perspiry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: rips, spry, yips. | |
-2 letters: pis, pry, psi, rip, sip, sir, spy, sri, yip. | |
-3 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: crispy, prissy, sirupy, stripy. | |
+2 letters: crisply, pirayas, piscary, prosily, pursily, pyrites, pyrosis, pyurias, scrimpy, shrimpy, spicery, spidery, spriggy, springy, syrphid, trypsin. | |
+3 letters: airplays, asperity, crispily, cyprians, gossipry, isospory, isotropy, papistry, perspiry, pleurisy, porosity, priestly, prissily, pyralids, pyramids, pyrexias, pyritous, pyrrhics, shipyard, slippery, spagyric, sparkily, sparsity, spinnery, spirally, sportily, spraying, syrphian, syrphids, trypsins, vespiary, whiprays, whispery, yperites. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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