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Definition: Nilsson |
NilssonNoun1. Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Nilsson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
"Nilsson" is a common misspelling or typo for: nelson. |
Synonyms: NilssonSynonyms: Brigit Nilsson (n), Marta Brigit Nilsson (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Nilsson's pipefish (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Nilsson |
| English words defined with "Nilsson": Brigit Nilsson ♦ Marta Brigit Nilsson. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Nilsson": Fleng. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Torre Nilsson (1973) Sigge Nilsson och jag (1938) | |
Song Titles | Without You (performing artist: Harry Nilsson) Coconut (performing artist: Nilsson) Gotta Get Up (performing artist: Nilsson) Jump Into The Fire (performing artist: Nilsson) Let The Good Times Roll (performing artist: Nilsson) | |
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 | Plate XVII. 61. Argentina silus, (Ascanius), Nilsson. From specimen collected at Biddeford, Maine. 62. Argentina striata, Goode and Bean. From N. Lat. 28.6 , W. Long. 85.5, in 111 fathoms. 63. Bathylagus euryops, Goode and Bean. Fro m N. Lat. 39.9, W. Long. 70.5, in 600 fathoms. 64. Bathylagus Benedicti, Good e and Bean. From N. Lat. 39.0, W. Long. 70.1, in 1,344 fathoms.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | P. CXVI. 392. Trachypterus arcticus, (Brunnich), Nilsson. From Day, "Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland." 393. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Blainville, " Journal de Physique," Vol. LXXXVII. 394. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Shaw, "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London," Vol. I.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Nilsson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nilsson" is used about 79 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) | 100% | 79 | 37,388 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Nilsson" 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 |
| Nilsson | Last name | 2,000 | 7,383 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Nilsson": Brigit Nilsson ♦ Marta Brigit Nilsson. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
harry nilsson | 151 |
charlotte nilsson | 112 |
nilsson | 34 |
jesse nilsson | 33 |
lisa nilsson | 28 |
harry lyrics nilsson | 28 |
lennart nilsson | 22 |
inger nilsson | 20 |
ulrika nilsson | 13 |
birgit nilsson | 12 |
josefin nilsson | 11 |
magnus nilsson | 11 |
walter nilsson | 9 |
martin nilsson | 9 |
lisa lyrics nilsson | 7 |
rob nilsson | 7 |
nilsson tommy | 6 |
lyrics nilsson | 6 |
nilsson point | 6 |
moss nilsson | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Nilsson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | pastor Nilsson (Reverend Nilsson - the). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Syngnathus rostellatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Nilsson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hilson, Insjon, Kilson, Neilsons, Neilstown, Nialson, Nijsen, Nijssen, nillson, nilson, nilssoni, Nilssonia, Ninsun, Pilsdon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-n-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: linns, linos, lions, loins, noils, silos, soils. | |
-3 letters: inns, ions, linn, lino, lins, lion, loin, loss, nils, noil, oils, silo, sins, soil, soli, sols, sons. | |
-4 letters: inn, ins, ion, lin, lis, nil, nos, oil, ons, sin, sis, sol, son, sos. | |
-5 letters: in, is, li, lo, no, on, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: solanins. | |
+2 letters: insolents, lessoning, looniness, nonfossil, nonsolids, solanines. | |
+3 letters: cloisonnes, inclusions, innersoles, insolences, insolvents, loneliness, lovingness, plainsongs, santolinas, singletons, unholiness. | |
+4 letters: ascensional, clingstones, conclusions, convulsions, counselings, declensions, dissonantly, ignobleness, insolations, insulations, langostinos, looninesses, nominalisms, nominalists, nonplastics, nonplussing, nonsensical, pensionless, proinsulins, sensational, tensionless, ungodliness, womanliness. | |
+5 letters: calypsonians, clownishness, colonialness, concessional, confessional, consistently, consolations, counsellings, engrossingly, folksingings, functionless, geosynclines, insolvencies, ironicalness, langoustines, lonelinesses, longshorings, lovingnesses, luminousness, lysogenising, mandolinists, manifoldness, nationalises, nationalisms, nationalists, neutrinoless, nonclassical, nondisableds, nonessential, nonhospitals, nonsocialist, nonsolutions, obligingness, plasminogens, rationalness, slovenliness, sulfonations, translations, unholinesses, unloveliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 6C 73 73 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. .-.. ... ... --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01101100 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i l s s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 006C 0073 0073 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48757885858180 |
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