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DYAKS

Definition: DYAKS

DYAKS

Noun plural

1. The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DYAKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1929. (references)


Crosswords: DYAKS

English words defined with "DYAKS": DayaksHead-hunter. (references)

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Usage Frequency: DYAKS

"DYAKS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "DYAKS" is used about 6 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)50%3202,518
Noun (plural)50%3202,518
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Rhyming with "DYAKS"

Words rhyming with "DYAKS" (pronounced 'Dy"aks'): Dayaks. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DYAKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-k-s-y"

-1 letter: daks, days, kays, yaks.

-2 letters: ads, ask, ays, dak, day, kas, kay, sad, say, ska, sky, yak.

-3 letters: ad, as, ay, ka, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-k-s-y"
 

+1 letter: alkyds.

 

+2 letters: darkeys, keypads, skidway, skyward.

 

+3 letters: daybooks, dayworks, katydids, keycards, kyanised, ladykins, skidways, skywards, vandykes, weekdays, workdays.

 

+4 letters: ankylosed, backyards, daybreaks, dockyards, junkyards, kailyards, kaleyards, keyboards, skyjacked, skylarked, stockyard, yardstick, yardworks.

 

+5 letters: backwoodsy, brickyards, dyskinesia, stockyards, swaybacked, thylakoids, yardsticks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DYAKS


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

44 59 41 4B 53

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)

01000100 01011001 01000001 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#89 &#65 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0059 0041 004B 0053

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

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

3859354553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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