PIGEON-HOLE

Date "PIGEON-HOLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Pigeon-hole (A). A small compartment for filing papers. In pigeon-lockers a small hole is left for the pigeons to walk in and out. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Domain	Title
Books	Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals (reference) (more book examples)
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"PIGEON-HOLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "PIGEON-HOLE" is used about 10 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)	70%	7	133,076
Adjective (general or positive)	30%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Language		Translations for "PIGEON-HOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		lokero (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, safe-deposit box, section, speciality). (various references)

French		casier (pigeonhole). (various references)

Hungarian		rekesz polcon, rekesz íróasztalé, galambdúc (columbarium, Cote, dovecot, dovecote, loft, pigeonry), félretesz (allocate, cast aside, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off), elrendez (align, arrange, dispose, Marshal, order, organize, tidy up, to arrange in tiers, to array, to calendar, to dispose, to do up, to lay out, to marshal, to pigeonhole, to pose, to put to rights, to range, to rank, to set sg to rights, to square, to tidy, to tidy up, trim). (various references)

Manx		towl buird. (various references)

Pig Latin		igeon-holepay

Romanian		pune la dosar (file), pune în sertar, sertar (drawer), lãsa sã aştepte, gaurã pentru porumbei, colţ retras, casetã (box, casket, coffer, colophon), cãsuţã (cottage, hovel). (various references)

Russian		ящик для корреспонденции (pigeonhole). (various references)

Swedish		fack (box, branch, case, compartment, department, field, line, partition, pigeonhole, section, speciality, trade). (various references)

Turkish		yazı masası çekmecesi (pigeonhole), çekmece (drawer, pigeonhole). (various references)

Vietnamese		lỗ chu�"ng chim b�" câu ngăn kéo, hộc tủ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	loculo, loculos, loculum. (various references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pigeonhole.
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-o-p"
	-1 letter: oenophile.
	-2 letters: geophone.
	-3 letters: eloping, epigone, heeling, helping, hooping, looping, peeling, pinhole, poohing, pooling.
	-4 letters: eloign, epigon, epilog, gonoph, goonie, hoeing, holing, holpen, hoolie, hoping, legion, logion, looing, loping, oleine, oohing, peeing, penile, phenol, pigeon, pinole, poling, pongee.
	-5 letters: eloin, elope, genie, genip, gipon, helio, hinge, igloo, ingle, leone, liege, lingo, logoi, longe, looie, neigh.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-o-p"
	+1 letter: phenologies, pigeonholed, pigeonholer, pigeonholes.
	+2 letters: nephrologies, phrenologies, pigeonholers.
	+5 letters: phenomenologies, phenomenologist.
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PIGEON-HOLE

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