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"ALEC" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "men who defend". |
Date "ALEC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
"ALEC" is a common misspelling or typo for: able, alas, ale, alee, alley, lace, laic. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ALEC A Language with an Extensible Compiler. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ALEC | English | Authorized Linux Education Center | Computer - (Linux, Caldera) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ALEC |
| Specialty definitions using "ALEC": A Language with an Extensible Compiler. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Alec is becoming a Republicanand he wants to get married! (St. Elmo's Fire; writing credit: Joel Schumacher; Carl Kurlander) Alec, shut these windows. (Family Plan; writing credit: Paul Bernbaum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's Alec Templeton Time (1955) Smart Alec (1951) Cher Alec Cher Janet (1975) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Alec Gelanin with Auklet. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Sir Alec Guiness | Acting is happy agony. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "ALEC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.96% of the time. "ALEC" is used about 672 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) | 98.96% | 665 | 9,875 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.04% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 672 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ALEC" 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 |
| Alec | First name Male | 6,000 | 930 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ALEC" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "men who defend". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ALEC." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Aleksander | Male | Albanian | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Ancient Greek | Alexander |
| Alexandros | Male | Ancient Greek | Alexander |
| Aleksandar | Male | Bulgarian | Alexander |
| Aleksandra | Female | Bulgarian | Alexander |
| Aleksander | Male | Croatian | Alexander |
| Alexandr | Male | Czech | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Czech | Alexander |
| Alexander | Male | Dutch | N/A |
| Alexandra | Female | Dutch | Alexander |
| Xander | Male | Dutch | Alexander |
| Alec | Male | English | Alexander |
| Alex | Male, Female | English | Alexander |
| Alexander | Male | English | N/A |
| Alexandra | Female | English | Alexander |
| Alexandrea | Female | English | Alexander |
| Alexandria | Female | English | Alexander |
| Lex | Male | English | Alexander |
| Zander | Male | English | Alexander |
| Alechjo | Male | Esperanto | Alexander |
| Aleksandro | Male | Esperanto | Alexander |
| Aleksanteri | Male | Finnish | Alexander |
| Santeri | Male | Finnish | Alexander |
| Alexandre | Male | French | Alexander |
| Alexander | Male | German | N/A |
| Alexandra | Female | German | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Greek | Alexander |
| Alexandros | Male | Greek | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Hungarian | Alexander |
| Alexandre | Male | Hungarian | Alexander |
| Sándor | Male | Hungarian | Alexander |
| Alastar | Male | Irish | Alexander |
| Alessandra | Female | Italian | Alexander |
| Alessandro | Male | Italian | Alexander |
| Sender | Male | Jewish | Alexander |
| Aleksandar | Male | Macedonian | Alexander |
| Aleksander | Male | Polish | Alexander |
| Aleksandra | Female | Polish | Alexander |
| Olek | Male | Polish | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Portuguese | Alexander |
| Alexandre | Male | Portuguese | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Romanian | Alexander |
| Alexandru | Male | Romanian | Alexander |
| Aleksandr | Male | Russian | Alexander |
| Aleksandra | Female | Russian | Alexander |
| Sasha | Male, Female | Russian | Alexander |
| Alexandra | Female | Scandinavian | Alexander |
| Alasdair | Male | Scottish | Alexander |
| Aleksander | Male | Serbian | Alexander |
| Aleksandra | Female | Serbian | Alexander |
| Aleksander | Male | Slovene | Alexander |
| Alejandra | Female | Spanish | Alexander |
| Alejandro | Male | Spanish | Alexander |
| Iskender | Male | Turkish | Alexander |
| Oleksander | Male | Ukrainian | Alexander |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ALEC": Alec Guinness ♦ Sir Alec Guinness. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ALEC": smart-alec. | |
| 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 |
alec baldwin | 396 | smart alec | 11 |
alec | 115 | alec peng su | 10 |
alec power | 67 | alec fan fiction max | 10 |
alec su | 65 | alec baldwin fatone joey | 9 |
alec guinness | 59 | alec baldwin naked | 9 |
alec brown | 27 | alec waugh | 9 |
alec newman | 26 | alec best bet | 8 |
alec empire | 24 | alec gallery su | 8 |
alec martinez | 24 | alec baldwin basinger kim | 7 |
alec biography guinness | 20 | alec baldwin nature second | 7 |
alec metro | 20 | sir alec guinness | 7 |
alec su vicki zhao | 20 | alec mcclure | 7 |
alec baldwin nude | 20 | alec trevelyan | 6 |
alec baldwin movie | 19 | alec baldwin picture | 6 |
wilder alec | 18 | alec angel dark | 6 |
alec star war | 15 | alec baldwin brother | 6 |
alec baldwin gallery photo | 15 | alec shoes | 6 |
alec drae sun | 14 | alec wek | 6 |
alec john such | 11 | alec baldwin photo | 6 |
alec buck | 11 | alec him in played star war | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ALEC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Alister (Aleck, Alexander), Alistair (Aleck, Alexander). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | alecay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ALEC": alecs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ALEC": acatalectic, acatalectics, adrenalectomies, adrenalectomized, adrenalectomy, analecta, analects, bidialectal, bidialectalism, bidialectalisms, caleche, caleches, catalectic, catalectics, dialect, dialectal, dialectally, dialectic, dialectical, dialectically, dialectician, dialecticians, dialectics, dialectological, dialectologically, dialectologies, dialectologist, dialectologists, dialectology, dialects, hypercatalectic, interdialectal, multidialectal, pinealectomies, pinealectomize, pinealectomized, pinealectomizes, pinealectomizing, pinealectomy, subdialect, subdialects, undialectical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ALEC" (pronounced a"lik) |
| 4 | a" l i k | anencephalic, gallic, italic, metallic, phallic. |
| 3 | -l i k | acrylic, alcoholic, allelic, anabolic, angelic, bucolic, catholic, diastolic, frolic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, hyperbolic, idyllic, melancholic, metabolic, nonalcoholic, nonpublic, parabolic, pedophilic, phenolic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l" | |
-1 letter: ace, ale, cel, lac, lea. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l" | |
+1 letter: alecs, cable, calve, camel, carle, cecal, cella, chela, clade, clave, clean, clear, cleat, decal, eclat, fecal, glace, ileac, laced, lacer, laces, lacey, lance, leach, lycea, macle, place, scale. | |
+2 letters: acetal, acetyl, aculei, aecial, alcade, alcove, almuce, anlace, atelic, becalm, bleach, cabled, cables, cablet, cackle, caecal, cajole, calces, calesa, calked, calker, called, caller, callet, calmed, calmer, calque, calved, calves, calxes, camels, camlet, cancel, candle, cannel, cantle, caplet, carcel, carles, carpel, carrel, cartel, carvel, castle, cattle, caudle, caules, cedula, celiac, cellae, cellar, cental, cereal, chaleh, chalet, chapel, chelae, chelas, cicale, clades, claque, claret, clause, claver, claves, clawed, clawer, clayed, clayey, cleans, clears, cleats, cleave, coaled, coaler, coeval, colead, cradle, credal, culpae, cuneal, decals, declaw, eclair, eclats, enlace, epical, facile, faecal, falces, fecial, fecula, glaces, glance, hackle, heliac, inlace, lacers, laches, lacier, lacked, lacker, lackey, lacune, lanced, lancer, lances, lancet, launce, leachy, legacy, lexica, locale, locate, mackle, macled, macles, macule, malice, marcel, mescal, mezcal, oracle, palace, parcel, placed, placer, places, placet, plaice, pleach, plicae, rackle, recall, reclad, recoal, rectal, relace, scaled, scaler, scales, sclera, solace, tackle, talced, tectal, thecal, unlace. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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