ELECTRESS

Definition: ELECTRESS

ELECTRESS

Noun

1. The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ELECTRESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Crosswords: ELECTRESS

English words defined with "ELECTRESS": Electoress. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	I gioielli dell'Elettrice palatina al Museo degli argenti = The jewels of the Electress Palatine in the Museo degli argenti (reference) Sophie, Electress of Hanover; a personal portrait (reference) (more book examples)
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"ELECTRESS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ELECTRESS" is used about 3 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)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Language		Translations for "electress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		electressay.(various references)

Romanian		principesã electoare. (various references)

Turkish		seçmen (constituent, elector, poll, voter). (various references)

Vietnamese		nữ cử tri. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ELECTRESS": electresses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ELECTRESS" (pronounced 'E*lect"ress'): Chantress, Commandress, Conductress, Contendress, Correctress, Corruptress, Defendress, Demandress, Detractress, Directress, Dowress, Enchantress, Exactress, foundress, huntress, Inspectress, instructress, Intrudress, Inventress, Jointress, Neatress, Offendress, Suggestress, Suitress, Supportress, Tauntress, temptress, Tormentress, Translatress, Waitress. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-l-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: celestes, reelects, secretes, sesterce, treeless.
	-2 letters: celeste, creeses, cresset, reelect, resects, secrete, secrets, selects, streels, teleses, tercels, tressel.
	-3 letters: certes, creels, creese, crests, elects, erects, esters, lessee, lesser, recess, reests, relets, resect, resees, resets, screes, secret, select, serest, sleets, steels, steers, steles, steres, streel, tercel, terces.
	-4 letters: celts, ceres, cetes, creel, cress, crest, elect, erect, erses, ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, resee, reset, rests, scree, sects, seels, seers, seres, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, terce, terse, trees, tress.
	-5 letters: cees, cels, celt, cere, cess, cete, eels, else, erst, eses, leer, lees, leet, less, lest, lets, recs, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, secs, sect, seel, seer, sees, sels, sere, sers, sets, teel, tees, tele, tels, tree.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-l-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: centerless, preselects.
	+2 letters: corselettes, electresses, electroless, reescalates, telecasters, telecourses.
	+3 letters: clerestories, electrolyses, letterspaces, respectables, sclerometers.
	+4 letters: chesterfields, electroscopes, preselections, steeplechaser, weltschmerzes.
	+5 letters: celebratedness, cholinesterase, clothespresses, creatureliness, creditableness, disrespectable, electrogeneses, electrogenesis, electroosmoses, electrotonuses, ensorcellments, overspeculates, preadolescents, reflectiveness, respectfulness, steeplechasers, superspectacle, teleprocessing, verticalnesses.
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