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ABLER

Definitions: ABLER

ABLER

Adjective

1. Superl. of Able.

2. Comp. of Able.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ABLER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Usage Frequency: ABLER

"ABLER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABLER" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (comparative)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: ABLER

The following table summarizes the usage of "ABLER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
AblerLast name40021,109
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABLER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abler

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ABLER

Language Translations for "ABLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ¯"较能. (various references)

   

German

  

fähiger. (various references)

   

Italian

  

piu' abile. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ëŠ¥ë ¥ 있ëŠ" (able, Ablest). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ableray.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

более годный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mas capaz, más capaz/hábil. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ABLER

Derivations

Words ending with "ABLER": capabler, enabler, fabler, stabler, unstabler. (additional references)

Words containing "ABLER": diablerie, diableries, diablery, enablers, fablers, stablers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ABLER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abber, abeer, aber, abier, Abla, ablark, abled, Ablex, Abley, ablo, ablur, Akber, Albar, Albaro, Alber, Albero, Alberro, albet, albey, albir, Albor, albur, alear, aleer, aler, Alero, alher, Allexr, alur, Ayler, balear, balera, baller, Ballerup, Eybler, Habeler, Obler. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ABLER"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ABLER" (pronounced ā"buler or ā"bler)
5ā" b u l erenabler, Stabler.
4-b u l ergobbler, humbler.
3-u l eralveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, granular, hackler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, juggler, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, testicular, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrangler, wrestler.
3-b l erAmbler, assembler, babbler, cobbler, gambler, rambler, scribbler, temblor, tumbler, warbler.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ABLER

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: baler, blare, blear.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-r"

-1 letter: able, bale, bare, bear, blae, brae, earl, lear, rale, real.

-2 letters: alb, ale, arb, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, ear, era, lab, lar, lea, reb.

-3 letters: ab, ae, al, ar, ba, be, el, er, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-r"
 

+1 letter: ambler, arable, bailer, balder, balers, balker, baller, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, bawler, blamer, blared, blares, blazer, blears, bleary, boreal, fabler, garble, herbal, labret, lamber, librae, marble, rabble, ramble, verbal, warble.

 

+2 letters: algebra, amblers, arables, babbler, baffler, bailers, balkers, balkier, ballers, balmier, barbell, barbels, barbule, barless, barleys, barrels, battler, bawlers, becrawl, bedrail, belabor, bilayer, blabber, blacker, bladder, blamers, blander, blanker, blarney, blaster, blather, blatter, blazers, bleaker, bleared, bleater, bloater, brabble, brailed, braille, braless, bramble, brattle, bravely, brawled, brawler, brawlie, caliber, calibre, clabber, clamber, curable, dabbler, drabble, dryable, durable, earlobe, enabler, fablers, friable, gabbler, gambler, gambrel, garbled, garbler, garbles, grabble, halberd, halbert, herbals, hirable, labeler, labored, laborer, labrets, lambers, lambert, lambier, liberal, librate, marbled, marbler, marbles, nebular, parable, puberal, rabbled, rabbler, rabbles, rambled, rambler, rambles, ratable, relabel, retable, ridable, ropable, rowable, rubella, rubeola, rulable, slabber, stabler, triable, verbals, wabbler, warbled, warbler, warbles, wirable.

 

+3 letters: absolver, adorable, afebrile, albacore, albicore, algebras, arbalest, arbelest, arboreal, arbuscle, arguable, atremble, babblers, bachelor, badgerly, bafflers, balancer, balefire, balloter, ballsier, baluster, banderol, bankerly, bannerol, barbells, barbicel, barbless, barbules, barflies, bargello, barkless, barleduc, barnacle, barnlike, barrable, barreled, barrenly, battlers, baulkier, beadroll, bearable, bearably, bearlike, beclamor, becrawls, bedrails, beggarly, beglamor, belabors, belabour, berascal, betrayal, bewailer, bilander, bilayers, bilinear, biyearly, blabbers, bladders, bladdery, blancher, blarneys, blasters, blastier, blathers, blatters, blazoner, bleacher, blearier, blearily, blearing, bleaters, bloaters, brabbled, brabbler, brabbles, bracelet, braciole, bracteal, bractlet, brailled, brailles, brambled, brambles, brattled, brattles, brawlers, brawlier, brazenly, breccial, bribable, brocatel, brucella, burnable, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres, capabler, cartable, cerebral, clabbers, clambers, curbable, cymbaler, dabblers, deverbal, diablery, drabbled, drabbles, drapable, drawable, drivable, durables, earlobes, embalmer, emblazer, enablers, erasable, exorable, farmable, fireable, fireball, flabbier, fordable, formable, framable, furlable, gabblers, gamblers, gambrels, garblers, garbless, glabrate, grabbled, grabbler, grabbles, gradable, grazable, growable, halberds, halberts, harebell, hearable, hibernal, hireable, imbalmer, inarable, labelers, labeller, laborers, laborite, laboured, labourer, lamberts, leeboard, liberals, liberate, librated, librates, marblers, marblier, operable, operably, overable, palpebra, parables, parsable, partible, portable, pourable, preamble, prebasal, probable, provable, prunable, pubertal, rabblers, radiable, raisable, ramblers, rateable, rateably, readable, readably, reapable, reburial, rebuttal, reefable, reelable, relabels, reliable, reliably, rentable, retables, reusable, rideable, rinsable, rippable, rubellas, rubeolar, rubeolas, ruinable, rustable, scrabble, scramble, servable, sharable, slabbers, slabbery, sorbable, sortable, sparable, stablers, storable, surfable, tearable, titrable, tradable, turnable, umbellar, umbrella, urbanely, variable, verbally, wabblers, wabblier, wamblier, warblers, wearable, workable, writable.

 

+4 letters: abolisher, abradable, absoluter, absolvers, accruable, admirable, adverbial, agreeable, agreeably, airmobile, alabaster, albacores, albicores, algebraic, alterable, alterably, arbalests, arbelests, arbuscles, assembler, astrolabe, awardable, bachelors, bacterial, bairnlier, balancers, balefires, balladeer, ballerina, balloters, balusters, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, bannerols, barbicels, barcarole, bargellos, barleducs, barnacled, barnacles, baroquely, barrelage, barrelful, barreling, barrelled, baseliner, beadrolls, beardless, bearishly, beastlier, beclamors, becrawled, bedraggle, beglamors, beglamour, belabored, belabours, beleaguer, berascals, betrayals, betrothal, bewailers, bicameral, bilanders, bilateral, bizarrely, blabbered, blackener, blaeberry, blanchers, blarneyed, blathered, blatherer, blattered, blazoners, bleachers, bleariest, blockader, bluebeard, bluegrass, boardlike, bolivares, boulevard, brabblers, bracelets, bracioles, bracteole, bractlets, brainless, brakeless, bramblier, branchlet, brawliest, breadline, breakable, breathily, bricolage, broadleaf, brocatels, bromelain, bromeliad, brucellae, brucellas, brutalise, brutalize, bulwarked, burladero, burnables, caballero, cablegram, cabrioles, cabriolet, calibrate, carbazole, carbuncle, celebrant, celebrate, cerebella, cerebrals, clabbered, clambered, clamberer, clearable, colorable, coverable, crossable, crushable, curveball, cymbalers, derivable, desirable, desirably, diablerie, draftable, drapeable, drillable, drinkable, driveable, droppable, elaborate, embalmers, emblazers, embrangle, embryonal, endurable, endurably, enterable, erectable, execrable, execrably, favorable, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, forgeable, frameable, frangible, frankable, generable, glabellar, grabblers, grantable, graspable, grazeable, groupable, handlebar, harebells, herbalist, heritable, honorable, hyperbola, ignorable, illiberal, imbalmers, incurable, inferable, insurable, irascible, irritable, jailbreak, labellers, laborites, labourers, lamebrain, learnable, leeboards, liberally, liberated, liberates, liberator, libraries, litterbag, lubricate, lumberman, marbleise, marbleize, marbliest, memorable, memorably, miserable, miserably, nonarable, nonverbal, numerable, orderable, overlabor, palpebrae, palpebral, palpebras, parboiled, parbuckle, penumbral, permeable, porbeagle, portables, preambles, prebattle, prebendal, pregnable, preverbal, previable, printable, probables, railbuses, reachable, rebalance, reburials, rebuttals, referable, refutable, refutably, relabeled, relatable, reliables, removable, removably, renewable, renewably, reparable, repayable, reputable, reputably, resalable, rescuable, revisable, revivable, revocable, revokable, rotatable, saturable, scrabbled, scrabbler, scrabbles, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, screwball, scrutable, separable, severable, shareable, slabbered, sparables, spareable, squabbler, steerable, storables, strobilae, subaerial, subaltern, subcellar, subdermal, superable, superably, tablature, tableware, tenurable, tolerable, tolerably, trabecula, traceable, tractable, tradeable, trainable, treatable, tribulate, trilobate, trustable, turntable, umbrellas, unridable, unstabler, utterable, variables, venerable, venerably, verbalism, verbalist, verbalize, veritable, veritably, vertebral, vibratile, wearables, worktable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ABLER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 42 4C 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    .-..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#76 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 004C 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3536463952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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