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Definition: MISSEL |
MISSELNoun1. Mistletoe. |
Date "MISSEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Missel \Mis"sel\, noun. Mistletoe. [Obsolete]. (references) |
Crosswords: MISSEL |
| English words defined with "MISSEL": Draine ♦ Holm thrush ♦ Skirlcock, Skrike, Squawking thrush, Stone thrush, Stormcock, Sycock ♦ Thricecock, Throstle cock ♦ Wood thrush. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MISSEL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (missal). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "MISSEL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "MISSEL" is used about 6 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 (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MISSEL" 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 |
| Missel | Last name | 130 | 55,414 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "MISSEL": missel bird ♦ missel thrush. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "MISSEL": missel-thrush. | |
| 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 |
crisis cuban missel | 7 |
missel | 4 |
command missel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MISSEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | имелов дрозд. (various references) | |
Hungarian | léprigó. (various references) | |
Manx | treshlen vooar (missel thrush), lhon ny keylley (missel thrush). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isselmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tordo-visgueiro, tordoveia. (various references) | |
Romanian | sturz mare (missel-thrush). (various references) | |
Russian | дрозд-деряба. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drozak imelaš. (various references) | |
Turkish | ökseardıcı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MISSEL": missels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MISSEL" (pronounced mi"sul) |
| 5 | m i" s u l | antimissile, dismissal, missal, missile. |
| 4 | -i" s u l | bristle, epistle, fissile, gristle, Thistle, whistle. |
| 3 | -s u l | apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bustle, cancel, capsule, Castle, colossal, consul, council, counsel, diesel, dispersal, docile, dorsal, facile, fossil, gracile, Hansel, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, stencil, tassel, Tattersall, tensile, Tercel, jostle, microfossil, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pencil, pixel, Proconsul, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, tinsel, tonsil, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, unsell, utensil, vassal, vessel, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: slimes, smiles. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-s-s" | |
-1 letter: isles, limes, miles, mises, seism, semis, slime, slims, smile. | |
-2 letters: elms, isle, isms, leis, less, lies, lime, mels, mess, mile, mils, mise, miss, seis, sels, semi, sims, slim. | |
-3 letters: elm, els, ems, ess, ism, lei, lie, lis, mel, mil, mis, sei, sel, sim, sis. | |
-4 letters: el, em, es, is, li, me, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-s-s" | |
+1 letter: aimless, lissome, messily, mislies, missels, missile, mueslis, rimless, samiels, seismal, similes, simnels, simples, smilers, smileys. | |
+2 letters: beslimes, besmiles, brimless, dishelms, elitisms, filmsets, flimsies, glimpses, impulses, leftisms, limbless, limbuses, limeless, liminess, limpness, litmuses, mailless, malaises, melismas, midsoles, mildness, mindless, misdeals, misfiles, misleads, mislikes, mislives, misrules, missable, missiles, misspell, misspelt, misstyle, mosslike, obelisms, plenisms, realisms, remissly, simplest, slimiest, slimmers, slimmest, slimness, slimsier, smilaxes, solecism, sublimes, timeless. | |
| 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: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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