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A motte and bailey castle stood on the banks of the river during the medieval period. No remains are now visible above ground, but the site of the castle is commemorated in local street names.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Afan."
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Afan Evu (1945) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In Wonsan Harbor, North Korea, circa 10-13 September 1951, seen from USS Floyd B. Parks (DD-884), which is coming alongside to take on fuel. Photographed by AFAN E.A. McDade. Credit: NAVY. |  | USS Merganser (AMS-26) tied up to USS Conserver (ARS-39) in Wonsan Harbor, Korea. Photographed by AFAN W.C. Newbill. The original photo is dated 23 October 1950. Note navigation bouy on Conserver's after deck and ships in background, including another AMS and a high-speed minesweeper (DMS). Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "AFAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "AFAN" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AFAN" 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 |
| Afan | Last name | 100 | 75,626 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
afan | 4 |
afan oduu oromoo | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-n" | |
-1 letter: ana, fan. | |
-2 letters: aa, an, fa, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-n" | |
+1 letter: faena, fanga, fauna. | |
+2 letters: afghan, caftan, faenas, fanega, fangas, farina, faunae, faunal, faunas, fraena, kaftan. | |
+3 letters: affiant, affinal, afghani, afghans, antifat, caftans, fanatic, fanegas, fanfare, fantail, fantasm, fantast, fantasy, farinas, farinha, fazenda, flagman, infanta, infauna, kaftans, tailfan. | |
+4 letters: affiance, affiants, afghanis, alfaquin, antefixa, antifoam, avifauna, epifauna, fahlband, faineant, fanatics, fandango, fanegada, fanfares, fanfaron, fantails, fantasia, fantasie, fantasms, fantasts, farinhas, farmhand, farmland, faunally, favonian, fazendas, feasance, filarian, flagrant, flancard, flatland, flavanol, fleabane, foramina, fragrant, handfast, infantas, infaunae, infaunal, infaunas, landfall, langlauf, nonfatal, paraffin, raftsman, rainfall, safranin, tailfans, unafraid, warfarin. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 46 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000110 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A F A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0046 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35403548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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