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Date "FRINK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Frink /frink/ v. The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found esp. on the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what `frink' means, but they aren't telling. Compare gorets. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FRINK |
| Specialty definitions using "FRINK": gorets. (references) |
| "FRINK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FRINK" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FRINK" 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 |
| Frink | Last name | 2,000 | 6,495 |
| 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 |
frink professor | 114 |
frink | 13 |
frink professor simpsons | 5 |
stephen frink | 4 |
elizabeth frink | 4 |
america frink | 3 |
character frink simpsons | 3 |
downloads frink professor | 3 |
frink rule | 2 |
frink prof | 2 |
frink john professor | 2 |
frink john | 2 |
frink professor sound | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: fink, firn, kirn, rink. | |
-2 letters: fin, fir, ink, irk, kif, kin, kir, rif, rin. | |
-3 letters: if, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: firkin, knifer. | |
+2 letters: finmark, firkins, forking, funkier, kerfing, knifers, ratfink. | |
+3 letters: fernlike, finmarks, finnmark, firepink, foreskin, franking, franklin, freaking, frisking, frocking, ratfinks, refusnik. | |
+4 letters: drawknife, finickier, finnmarks, firepinks, foreskins, forsaking, franklins, freckling, kingcraft, refusenik, refusniks, scarfskin, trunkfish. | |
+5 letters: backfiring, defrocking, fingerlike, fingerpick, finnickier, flickering, folksinger, freakiness, friskiness, frolicking, kingcrafts, kingfisher, refuseniks, scarfskins, turfskiing, unfrocking. | |
| 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)46 52 49 4E 4B |
| 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)01000110 01010010 01001001 01001110 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R I N K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 0049 004E 004B |
| 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)4052434845 |
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