Erewhon

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Erewhon

Definition: Erewhon

Erewhon

Noun

1. Fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Erewhon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

"Erewhon" is a common misspelling or typo for: earphone, earshot, earthen, eyeshot, freshen, reecho.

 

Commercial Usage: Erewhon

DomainTitle

Books

  • Erewhon (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books)) (reference)

  • Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited (reference)

  • Erewhon or, Over the Range (The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler - Volume 2) (reference)

  • Erewhon Revisited [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon (1835-1902) A Memoir (2 Volumes) (BCL1-PR English Literature) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

Top     

Usage Frequency: Erewhon

"Erewhon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erewhon" is used about 2 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 (singular)100%2245,945

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Erewhon

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

erewhon

31

butler erewhon samuel

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Erewhon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nowhere, whereon.

Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-o-r-w"

-1 letter: erenow, hereon.

-2 letters: heron, hewer, honer, newer, owner, renew, rewon, rowen, wheen, where, whore.

-3 letters: enow, erne, ewer, here, hern, hero, hewn, hoer, hone, horn, howe, ween, weer, were, whee, when, wore, worn, wren.

-4 letters: eon, ere, ern, ewe, hen, her, hew, hoe, hon, how, nee, new, noh, nor, now, one, ore, owe, own.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-o-r-w"
 

+1 letter: nowheres.

 

+2 letters: homeowner, whereinto, whereunto, whereupon.

 

+3 letters: homeowners, horsewomen, whensoever.

 

+4 letters: downhearted, fisherwomen, hereinbelow, netherworld, northwester, washerwomen, weatherworn, whoremonger, workbenches, wrongheaded.

 

+5 letters: henceforward, netherworlds, northwestern, northwesters, overweighing, overwhelming, southwestern, warehouseman, warehousemen, whencesoever, whoremongers, worthinesses.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Erewhon


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

45 72 65 77 68 6F 6E

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)

01000101 01110010 01100101 01110111 01101000 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#114 &#101 &#119 &#104 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0072 0065 0077 0068 006F 006E

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

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

39847189748180

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.