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DK

"DK" is a common misspelling or typo for: dike, do, duke.


Specialty Definition: DK

DomainDefinition

Computing

DK Datakit dk The country code for Denmark. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DK

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DK

DanishDanmarkGeography

DK

DutchDenemarkenGeography, Law

dk

EnglishDerrickN/A

DK

FinnishTanskaGeography

DK

FrenchDanemarkGeography, Law

DK

GermanDänemarkGeography

DK

GreekÎ"ανίαGeography

DK

ItalianRegno di DanimarcaGeography, Law

DK

PortugueseReino da DinamarcaGeography

DK

SpanishDinamarcaGeography

DK

SwedishKonungariket DanmarkGeography

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: DK

Specialty definitions using "DK": Datakit. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DK" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark).

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Commercial Usage: DK

DomainTitle

Books

  • DK LEGO Readers: Mission to the Arctic (Level 3: Reading Alone) (reference)

  • DK Readers: Astronaut, Living in Space (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) (reference)

  • DK Atlas of World History (reference)

  • DK NFL Readers: Rambling Running Backs (Level 4: Proficient Readers) (reference)

  • DK Readers: Beastly Tales (Level 3: Reading Alone) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: DK

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Cambodia

In December 1978, Vietnam announced formation of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS) under Heng Samrin, a former DK division commander. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DK

"DK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.61% of the time. "DK" is used about 59 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)96.61%5744,859
Noun (common)3.39%2245,945
                    Total100.00%59N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: DK

The following table summarizes the usage of "DK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DkLast name20032,125
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DK

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dk

316

dk general lee

14

hooters dk

195

jubii dk

14

dk bike

122

bmx dk

13

dk stephans

122

dk stephens

13

dk publishing

56

dk sexland

13

dk book

49

dk ofir

13

dk mame

42

dk scor

13

dk bicycle

32

dk stephan

12

dk management model

29

dk 64

11

dk name

29

dk furniture

10

dk karaoke

26

celeb dk nude

9

dk sex

24

dk mods

8

celeb dk free nude

21

adultlust dk

8

dk lite

20

dk gästebuch zaun

8

dk porn

18

dk bmx bike

8

beastlover dk

18

com dk stephans

7

dk smile

16

dk publisher

7

dk majordomo

15

dk yahoo

7

dk multimedia

14

beastlinks dk

7

dk nugget.com

14

dk software

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: DK

Derivations

Words containing "DK": bodkin, bodkins, grandkid, grandkids, handkerchief, handkerchiefs, handkerchieves, roadkill, roadkills, vodka, vodkas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-k"
 

+1 letter: dak, kid.

 

+2 letters: daks, dank, dark, dawk, deck, deke, desk, dhak, dick, dike, dink, dirk, disk, dock, dork, drek, duck, duke, dunk, dusk, dyke, eked, kadi, kids, kind, kudo, kudu, skid.

 

+3 letters: alkyd, asked, baked, biked, caked, coked, darks, darky, dawks, decks, deked, dekes, dekko, desks, dhaks, dicks, dicky, diked, diker, dikes, dikey, dinks, dinky, dirks, disks, docks, dorks, dorky, drake, drank, dreck, dreks, drink, drouk, drunk, ducks, ducky, duked, dukes, dumka, dumky, dunks, dusks, dusky, dyked, dykes, dykey, faked, hiked, hoked, inked, irked, joked, juked, kadis, kedge, kendo, keyed, khadi, kheda, kiddo, kiddy, kinds, kited, knead, kneed, kudos, kudus, kudzu, laked, liked, miked, naked, nuked, piked, poked, puked, raked, ryked, skald, skeed, skids, skied, skyed, toked, tsked, vodka, waked, yoked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DK


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

44 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004B

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

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

3845

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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