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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Listen, Grayson, I got 106 bucks and 75 cents in the bank. (Platinum Blonde; writing credit: Harry Chandlee; Douglas W. Churchill) | |
Lyrics | Hadn't-a been for Grayson, I'd-a been in Tennessee well now, boy ("Tom Dooley"; performing artist: The Kingston Trio) This next one tells the story of a Mr. Grayson, a beautiful ("Tom Dooley"; performing artist: The Kingston Trio) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mystery of Grayson Hall (1914) Larry Grayson (1975) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wardroom of the RESEARCH L to R - Grayson, Allen, Rhodes sitting, Duorford, Pixley. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Grayson gives out reports on Wilson's condition to newspaper men. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Doctor Gary [i.e. Cary] Grayson, President Wilson's personal physician, photographed as he left the White House today ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "GRAYSON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRAYSON" is used about 69 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) | 100% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GRAYSON" 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 |
| Grayson | Last name | 8,000 | 1,618 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Grayson, GA (city, FIPS 34596) 2. Grayson, KY (city, FIPS 32572) 3. Grayson, LA (village, FIPS 31250) 4. Grayson, OK (town, FIPS 31150) |
Expression using "GRAYSON": Grayson County. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"GRAYSON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brayson, Drayson, Gaysoc, Grason, Grayon, Graystone, Grenson, Greylorn, Greysotne, Mrtyson, Rayosan, Raysun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-o-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: argons, argosy, groans, gyrons, orangs, orangy, organs, rayons, sarong. | |
-2 letters: agons, agony, angry, argon, arson, gnars, gorsy, grans, grays, groan, gyron, gyros, orang, organ, rangy, rayon, roans, sonar, yangs, yarns, yogas. | |
-3 letters: agon, gars, gays, gnar, goas, gory, goys, gran, gray, gyro, nags, naos, nary, nays, nogs, nosy, oars, orgy, osar, rags, rang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-o-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: gyrations, nongreasy, signatory. | |
+3 letters: androgynes, gastronomy, gynandrous, gyrfalcons, gyroplanes, sonography. | |
+4 letters: absorbingly, androgynies, androgynous, cosignatory, dangerously, designatory, grandiosely, grandiosity, granophyres, hydrogenase, overstaying, oxygenators, playgrounds, scenography, stenography. | |
+5 letters: clangorously, granulocytes, hydrogenases, hydrogenates, languorously, laryngoscope, laryngoscopy, oropharynges, transmogrify, ungraciously. | |
| 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)47 52 41 59 53 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. .- -.--. ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000001 01011001 01010011 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R A Y S O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0041 0059 0053 004F 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)41523559534948 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Cities 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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