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Date "MOB-CAP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Mob-cap (A). Is a plain cap, from Dutch mob = a cap Probably mop is another form of the same word, and all come from the Latin mappa (a clout), whence our word map (a drawing on cloth), in contradistinction to a cartoon (a drawing on paper). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MOB-CAP |
| Specialty definitions using "MOB-CAP": Knot and Bridle. (references) |
| "MOB-CAP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOB-CAP" is used about 8 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MOB-CAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | touca (bonnet, cap, coif, hood). (various references) | |
Russian | домашний чепец (mob cap). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mobcap. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-m-o-p" | |
-1 letter: campo. | |
-2 letters: ambo, camp, capo, coma, comb, comp. | |
-3 letters: abo, amp, bam, bap, boa, bop, cab, cam, cap, cob, cop, mac, map, moa, mob, moc, mop, oca, pac, pam, pom. | |
-4 letters: ab, am, ba, bo, ma, mo, om, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-m-o-p" | |
+1 letter: mobcaps. | |
+3 letters: amblyopic, procambia. | |
+4 letters: comparable, comparably, compatible, compatibly, computable, procambial, procambium, subcompact. | |
+5 letters: compactible, compassable, compatibles, compellable, compensable, problematic, procambiums, subcompacts. | |
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