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Definition: Prudence |
PrudenceNoun1. Discretion in practical affairs. 2. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Prudence" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to exercise prudence and good judgment". |
Date "prudence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Prudence \Pru"dence\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression prudentia, contr. from providentia. See Prudent, and compare to Providence.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | A quality of mind that restrains the wise boarder from trying to find out how his landlady makes her hash. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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Synonyms: PrudenceSynonyms: circumspection (n), discreetness (n), discretion (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: imprudence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Care | Alertness; (activity); attention; prudence; circumspection; (caution); anxiety; forethought; precaution; (preparation); tidiness; (order), (cleanliness); accuracy; (exactness); minuteness, attention to detail. |
Caution | Noun: caution; cautiousness; Adjective: discretion, prudence, cautel, heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation. |
Foresight | Forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion; (prejudgment); prudence; (caution). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Prudence; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast. |
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Screenplays | To quote Cicero: rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor. (The Black Hole; writing credit: Jeb Rosebrook; Bob Barbash) It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning And Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning Phoebe's delightful, Maude is disarming (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Prudence and the Pill (1968) Jewish Prudence (1927) Away Goes Prudence (1920) Prudence on Broadway (1919) | |
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 | A beautiful clump of "pickle-weed or Salicornia grows in a rocky tidal pool in Prudence Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A RI EPA vessel was donated for the 1997 transplant operation. The staging area was off Prudence Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Mark Fonseca demonstrates the transplant process to reporters in the first of a series of images that illustrate the underwater process from a beach off Prudence Island, RI. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A deer tick - Ixodes dammini - is quite abundant on Prudence Island. These small creatures can be quite dangerous to humans as they are carriers of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | All will be well with Prudence at the wheel. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New England prudence near Cortland, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emerson | The one prudence of life is concentration. |
Henry Fielding | The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. |
| Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. | |
Marcus T. Cicero | Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. |
Samuel Johnson | Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. |
| Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. | |
William Blake | Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But what is to be done in reference to foreigners, depending much upon their actions, and the variation of designs and interests, must be left in great part to the prudence of those, who have this power committed to them, to be managed by the best of their skill, for the advantage of the common-wealth. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The sale of a security held for an unpaid debt owing by an enemy shall be deemed to have been valid irrespective of notice to the owner if the creditor acted in good faith and with reasonable care and prudence, and no claim by the debtor on the ground of such sale shall be admitted. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | However he passed before it no more, obeying at once the instinct of timidity and the instinct of prudence, peculiar to lovers. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Zeal without prudence is like a ship adrift. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first. |
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Health | Dietary prudence and hygienic measures are safe and simple preventive techniques, but they do not eliminate entirely the risk of diarrhea. (references) | |
In addition to diagnostic prudence, elaborate planning and precise understanding of three-dimensional anatomy of the regions of proposed injection are essential for safe administration. (references) | ||
Prudence and current medical practice dictate that the patient or individual responsible for legal consent should be informed of all reasonable medical and surgical alternative therapies, the possibility of limited or absent benefits, the lack of permanent response and the unpredictability of response to an individual dose, and the need for repeated administration. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brunei Darussalam | The Sultan said in a 1989 interview that he intended to proceed, with prudence, to establish more liberal institutions in the country and that he would reintroduce elections and a legislature when he "[could] see evidence of a genuine interest in politics on the part of a responsible majority of Bruneians." In 1994, a constitutional review committee submitted its findings to the Sultan, but these have not been made public. (references) |
Australia | U.S. firms should exercise normal commercial prudence when doing business in the Australian market and are advised to perform due diligence on likely business partners and customers. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words. His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. Polydore Smith |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Freeman, though conducted with a zeal and prudence meriting entire approbation, has not been equally successful. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | In the midst of uncertainties necessarily connected with the great interests of the United States, prudence requires a continuance of our defensive and precautionary arrangement. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | What ever obstructions may be thrown in the way of the judicial authorities of the General Government, it is hoped they will be able peaceably to overcome them by the prudence of their own officers and the patriotism of the people. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | I pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Prudence and good sense do require, however, that new steps be taken to ease the payments deficit and prevent any gold crisis. |
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| "Prudence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.65% of the time. "Prudence" is used about 208 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) | 83.65% | 174 | 23,577 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.87% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (common) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 208 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "prudence" 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 |
| Prudence | First name Female | 4,000 | 1,655 |
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| "Prudence" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to exercise prudence and good judgment". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "prudence". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Prudence | Male | English | To exercise prudence and good judgment |
| Prudenzio | Male | Italian | To exercise prudence and good judgment |
| Prudentius | Male | Late Roman | To exercise prudence and good judgment |
| Prudencio | Male | Spanish | To exercise prudence and good judgment |
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Prudence." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Pru | Female | English | Prudence |
| Prudence | Female | English | Prudentius |
| Prue | Female | English | Prudence |
| Prudenzio | Male | Italian | Prudentius |
| Prudentius | Male | Late Roman | N/A |
| Prudencio | Male | Spanish | Prudentius |
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Expressions using "prudence": prudence concept ♦ Prudence Island. Additional references. | |
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Afrikaans | beleid (discretion, generalship, musical time, policy, politics, tact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urtësi (docility, ductility, meekness, sapience, wisdom), maturi (abstinence, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, forethought, policy, Providence, wariness), kursim (economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, saving, stockpiling, thrift), ekonomi (economics, economy, managed economy, thrift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيطة (precaution, providence), حكمة (aphorism, discreetness, foresight, maxim, policy, proverb, sagacity, sapience, say, sobering, wholesomeness, wisdom), حصافة (sagacity, wisdom), حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), تحذر (suspicion), تعقل (discretion, steady), تبصر (contemplate, follow smb. with one's eyes, insight, premeditation, reflect, shrewdness), إقتصاد (economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scantiness, thrift), إحتياطات (precincts), إحتراس (caution, doubt, precaution, vigilance), رجاحة العقل (sapience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсъдливост (judgement, sanity), благоразумие (discretion, discrimination, policy), предпазливост (care, caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, guardedness, heed, precaution, wariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 慎重. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prozíravost (acumen, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, Providence, sagacity, vision), opatrnost (care, caution, policy, precaution, wariness), obezřetnost (circumspection, deliberation, Providence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forsigtighedsprincip (conservatism, prudence concept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorzichtigheid (caution, discretion, generalship), omzichtigheid (discretion, generalship), beleid (discretion, generalship, musical time, policy, politics, tact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | singardemo (discretion, generalship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پروا (Heed, Solicitude), ملاحظه (Consideration, Heed, Regard, Respect, Tact), حزم (Discretion, Precaution), احتیاط (Canniness, Caution, Discretion, Guard, Nicety, Precaution, Reservation, Reserve, Vigilance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varovaisuusperiaate (conservatism, prudence concept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prudence (Providence), précaution (precaution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Umsicht (caution, circumspection, discretion, generalship, judiciousness), klugheit (acuity, astuteness, brightness, cleverness, cunningness, intelligence, judiciousness, knowledgeability, sagaciousness, sagacity, shrewdness, soundness, wisdom), Besonnenheit (calm, deliberateness, level-headedness, quietness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σωφροσύνη (saneness, wisdom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתי ות (discretion, mildness, moderacy, moderation, patience, restraint, temperance), תבו " (discreetness, discretion, intelligence, knowledge, reason, sagacity, understanding, wisdom), פקחות (cleverness, intelligence, savvy, shrewdness, smartness), ערמ" (craftiness, cunning, guile, machination, oodle, shrewdness, wile, wisdom, wit), חכמ" (insight, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom), ז"ירות (care, carefulness, caution, discreetness, discretion, look out, mind, observation, steady, take care, wariness), בי " (comprehension, insight, intellect, understanding, wisdom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | óvatosság (caution, chariness, circumspection, conservatism, discretion, heed, precaution, providence, reserve, wariness), okosság (astuteness, brightness, cleverness, discrimination, sagacity, sapience, shrewdness), körültekintés (caution, circumspection, discretion, foresight, imprudence, wariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebijaksanaan (discretion, policy, wisdom, wit), bijaksana (discreet, politic, sane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prudenza (cageyness, care, caution, chariness, discretion, foresight, safety, wariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 賢明 (intelligence, wisdom), 思慮 , 慎重 (discretion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しりょ, し"りょ (careful, deliberate, divine will, thoughtful, thoughtfulness), し"ちょう (brand new, discretion, elongation, expansion, extension, height, profound, Shinchou, stature, the Manchu Dynasty, uncompression), ふ"べつし" (discrimination, distinction), せさい (practical wisdom, shrewdness, worldly wisdom), け"めい (eagerness, earnestness, intelligence, risking one's life, subject, term, title, wisdom), じちょう (assistant director, self derision, vice-, vice-director). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feeudys (credit, decency, decent behaviour, discretion, modesty), feeudid (modesty), creenaght (art, astuteness, policy, wisdom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udencepray prudência (canniness, caution, chariness, discretion, freehand, policy, providence, wariness, wisdom), ponderação (attention, deliberation, reflection, reflexion, wariness, weighing), sensatez (solidity, wisdom), circuspecção, cautela (care, caution, chariness, heed, precaution, river-horse, vigilance, wariness). (various references) prudenţã (care, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, deliberation, forecast, stay), prevedere (augury, care, discretion, forecast, foreknowledgement, foresight, forethought, precaution, prevision, Providence, provision), precauţie (caution, chariness, wariness), economie (chariness, economics, economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, retrenchment, saving, savings, thrift), chibzuialã (consideration, reflexion, rumination, thinking). (various references) благоразумие (policy). (various references) gliocas (wisdom). (various references) promišljenost (forethought, notability), znanje (attainment, ken, know how, knowledge, lore), razboritost (circumspection, discernment, soberness), obazrivost (circumspection, precaution), nauka (knowledge, letters, science). (various references) prudencia (caution, circumspection, deliberation, discreetness, discretion). (various references) klokhet (sagacity, sanity, wisdom). (various references) sağgörü (clairvoyance, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, sagacity), sağduyu (common sense, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, good sense, horse sense, judgement, lucidity, lucidness, mother wit, nous, reason, sense), ihtiyat (backlog, caution, cautiousness, deliberation, discretion, precaution, reserve, reserve service, spare, substitute, vigilance, wariness), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit), öngörü (calculation, foresight, prescience). (various references) розсудливість (advisability, canniness, sobriety, soundness, wisdom), ощадливість (chariness, economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony), обачність (canniness, caution, chariness, circumspection, wariness), передбачливість (caution, foresight, long-sightedness). (various references) tính thận trọng (cautiousness, tenderness, watchfulness), tính khôn ngoan (mellowness, shrewdness), tính cẩn thận sự khôn ngoan, sự thận trọng (carefulness, caution, chariness, circumspection, circumspectness, judiciousness, precaution, restraint, temperance, vigilance, wariness), sự cẩn thận (care, religiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | providentia, prudentia, prudentiae, prudentiam, rationabilem, sapientia, sapientiae, sapientiam, sapientias. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egw h sofia kateskhnwsa boulhn kai gnwsin kai ennoian egw epekalesamhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ego sapientia habito in consilio et eruditis intersum cogitationibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | I, wisdam, dwelle in counseil; and am among to lerned thoytis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of ingenious inventions. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ako nga kaalam naghimo sa kabuotan nga maoy akong puloyanan. Ug nagapangita sa kahibalo ug sa pagpili-sa-maayo. |
| Chinese | 我 智 慧 以 靈 明 為 居 所 、 又 尋 得 知 識 ' 謀 略 。 |
| Croatian | Ja, mudrost, boravim s razboritošæu i posjedujem znanje umna djelovanja. |
| Danish | Jeg, Visdom, er Klogskabs Nabo og råder over Kundskab og Kløgt. |
| Dutch | Ik, Wijsheid, woon bij de kloekzinnigheid, en vinde de kennis van alle bedachtzaamheid. |
| Finnish | Minä, viisaus, olen perehtynyt mielevyyteen, olen löytänyt tiedon ja taidollisuuden. |
| French | Moi, la sagesse, j`ai pour demeure le discernement, Et je possède la science de la réflexion. |
| German | Ich, Weisheit, wohne bei der Klugheit und weiß guten Rat zu geben. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Mwen menm Bon Konprann, mwen gen lespri. Mwen gen bon tèt pou m' konprann. |
| Hungarian | Én bölcsesség lakozom az eszességben, és a megfontolás tudományát megnyerem. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Akulah hikmat; padaku ada pengertian, kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa aku ini, Hikmat, adalah duduk bersama-sama dengan akal tajam, dan aku telah mendapat segala pengetahuan dan kepandaian. |
| Italian | Io, la Sapienza, possiedo la prudenza e ho la scienza e la riflessione. |
| Maori | ¶ Kua meinga e ahau, e te whakaaro nui, ko te ngarahu pai hei nohoanga moku, e kitea ana e ahau te mohio me te ata whakaaro. |
| Norwegian | Jeg, visdommen, har klokskap i eie, og jeg forstår å finne kloke råd. |
| Portuguese | Eu, a sabedoria, habito com a prudência, e possuo o conhecimento e a discrição. |
| Rumanian | Eu, Knyelepciunea, am ca locuinyq mintea, wi pot nqscoci cele mai chibzuite planuri. |
| Russian | с, ТЕНХ"ТПУФШ, П'ЙФБА У ТБЪХНПН Й ЙЭХ ТБУУХ"ЙФЕМШОПЗП ЪОБОЙС. |
| Swedish | Jag, visheten, är förtrogen med klokheten, och jag råder över eftertänksam insikt. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prudence": prudences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "prudence": imprudence, jurisprudence. (additional references) | |
Words containing "prudence": imprudences, jurisprudences. (additional references) | |
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"Prudence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Predencia, prefence, prience, Prodesco, prudance, pruden, prudenc, Prudencio, Prudenter, prudnece, pruedence, pudence, pvudence, Rodenko, Rundenko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prudence" (pronounced pruw"duns) |
| 7 | p r uw" d u n s | imprudence, jurisprudence. |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, cadence, coincidence, confidence, correspondence, credence, decadence, dependence, dissidence, evidence, guidance, impedance, incidence, independence, interdependence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, precedence, Providence, residence, riddance, subsidence, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, acceptance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: creped, decern, endure, enured, perdue, pruned, pureed, reduce. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creep, crepe, crude, cured, deuce, drupe, dunce, duper, educe, ender, endue, enure, nuder, pence, perdu, preed, preen, prude, prune, puree, rupee, undee, under, upend. | |
-4 letters: cede, cepe, cere, crud, cued, curd, cure, curn, deep, deer, dene, dere, dree, duce, dune, dupe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: prudences. | |
+2 letters: imprudence, prepunched, uncarpeted, underprice, unpuckered. | |
+3 letters: imprudences, superceding, superinduce, underpriced, underprices, unperceived, unprocessed, unprotected. | |
+4 letters: counterposed, deuteranopic, preannounced, precautioned, superinduced, superinduces, unchaperoned, undeciphered, unprejudiced. | |
+5 letters: counterpoised, jurisprudence, perpendicular, prescheduling, supercalender, superinfected, unappreciated, unprecedented, unpredictable. | |
| 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. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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