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"AXEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "my father who is peace". |
Date "AXEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: AXEL |
| Non-English Usage: "AXEL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (axis, axle, shaft, shoulder, spindle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Axel, I would like you to meet Mona. (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) Don't think, Axel! It makes my dick itch! (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) Governor Axel has appointed a new sheriff, Dan Nodeen. (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady) Good night, Axel. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter; writing credit: Barney Cohen; Martin Kitrosser) I'm getting more ass than a toilet seat and Axel here, he's getting better than ever. (The Deer Hunter; writing credit: Michael Cimino; Deric Washburn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ich - Axel Cäsar Springer (1970) Axel Nort (1965) Die Unheimliche Wandlung des Axel Roscher (1943) Axel! (2002) | |
Song Titles | Axel F (performing artist: Harold Faltermeyer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his two granddaughters, Joyce and Evelyn, outside the Peterson home. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna | Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled. |
| The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "AXEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "AXEL" is used about 38 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) | 97.37% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AXEL" 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 |
| Axel | Last name | 300 | 25,832 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "AXEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "my father who is peace". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "AXEL." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Absalom | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Absalom | Male | English | N/A |
| Absolon | Male | French | Absalom |
| Axelle | Female | French | Axel |
| Acke | Male | Scandinavian | Axel |
| Axel | Male | Scandinavian | Absalom |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Axel Springer Verlag AG | Sweden | Axel Johnson AB |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "AXEL": Erik Axel Karlfeldt. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
axel rose | 133 | axel garrett | 5 |
axel | 122 | axel meisen | 5 |
axel f | 34 | axel rear | 5 |
pell axel rudi | 19 | 2003 axel f | 5 |
axel red | 15 | axel lyrics pell rudi | 5 |
axel trailer | 13 | axel sot | 5 |
axel manitou | 12 | axel biography rose | 4 |
axel dexter | 11 | axel ubago | 4 |
american axel | 11 | axel ratio | 4 |
axel picture rose | 10 | axel download f mp3 | 4 |
axel fernando | 9 | axel jewelry | 4 |
axel bauer | 9 | axel name real rose | 4 |
axel foley | 8 | axel springer verlag | 4 |
axel springer | 8 | axel braun | 4 |
axel wheel | 7 | axel pell rudi tab | 4 |
axel manitou super | 7 | axel ring | 4 |
axel johnson | 6 | axel rudin | 3 |
axel comp manitou | 6 | axel mortgage | 3 |
axel munthe | 5 | axel ratio rear | 3 |
axel karakasis | 5 | axel bearing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AXEL": axels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "AXEL": paclitaxel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AXEL": paclitaxels. (additional references) | |
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"AXEL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaxe, acel, Acelt, Actel, adxe, Aecl, ael, aeol, aex, aexe, Ajely, Aksel, Amel, anel, anell, apel, apell, arel, arxe, Atel, auxe, auxil, awel, axa, axaf, axea, axee, Axeen, axem, Axen, axeo, axep, axer, axet, axex, axez, axie, axij, axl, axled, axlet, axol, axu, ayel, Ayelu, caxel, Exel, exell, faxel, Ixil, kaxe, laxel, oxle, paxel, pxel, raxaul, xae, xel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AXEL" (pronounced a"ksul) |
| 5 | a" k s u l | axle. |
| 4 | -k s u l | pixel. |
| 3 | -s u l | antimissile, apostle, basal, brasil, bristle, bustle, cancel, capsule, Castle, colossal, consul, council, counsel, diesel, dismissal, dispersal, docile, dorsal, epistle, facile, fissile, fossil, gracile, gristle, Hansel, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pencil, Proconsul, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, stencil, tassel, Tattersall, tensile, Tercel, Thistle, tinsel, tonsil, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, unsell, utensil, vassal, vessel, whistle, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: axle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-x" | |
-1 letter: ale, axe, lax, lea, lex. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, ax, el, ex, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-x" | |
+1 letter: axels, axile, axled, axles, exalt, latex, laxer, relax. | |
+2 letters: alexia, alexin, axlike, calxes, exalts, exhale, flaxen, flaxes, laxest, lexica, luxate, plexal, poleax, sexual, xenial. | |
+3 letters: abaxile, adnexal, alexias, alexine, alexins, asexual, axillae, calyxes, dextral, exactly, exalted, exalter, example, exclaim, exclave, exempla, exhaled, exhales, exilian, explain, explant, exposal, exuvial, fixable, flaxier, galaxes, hexapla, latexes, laxness, lexical, luxated, luxates, maxwell, mixable, overlax, oxalate, poleaxe, relaxed, relaxer, relaxes, relaxin, taxable, taxless, textual, vexilla, waxlike. | |
| 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 58 45 4C |
| 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 01011000 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A X E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0058 0045 004C |
| 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)35583946 |
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