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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sapphics A Greek and Latin metre, so named from Sappho, the inventor. Horace always writes this metre in four-line stanzas, the last being an Adonic. There must be a caesura at the fifth foot of each of the first three lines, which runs thus:- The Adonic is- The first and third stanzas of the famous Ode of Horace (i. 22) may be translated thus, preserving the metre:- He of sound life, who ne'er with sinners wendeth, Needs no Maurish bow, such as malice bendeth, Nor with poisoned darts life from harm defendeth, Fuscus believe me. Once I, unarmed, was in a forest roaming, Singing love lays, when i' the secret gloaming Rushed a huge wolf, which, though in fury foaming, Did not aggrieve me. E.C.B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Books | |
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| "SAPPHICS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "SAPPHICS" is used about 4 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sapphics | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "SAPPHICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | Сафически Стихове. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | apphicssay Poesía Sáfica. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SAPPHICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sapphica. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-p-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sapphic. | |
-2 letters: aspics, aspish, phasic, phasis, spahis, spicas. | |
-3 letters: aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, caphs, chaps, chias, chips, hasps, picas, ships, spahi, spica, spics. | |
-4 letters: asci, asps, caph, caps, cash, chap, chia, chip, chis, haps, hasp, hips, hiss, ichs, pacs, paps, pash, pass, phis, pias, pica, pics, pips, pish, piss, psis, sacs, saps, sash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-p-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: spaceship. | |
+2 letters: spaceships. | |
+3 letters: hippocrases. | |
+4 letters: captainships. | |
+5 letters: championships, psychopathics, psychopathies, spectatorship, supergraphics, superphysical. | |
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| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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