Benefactress

Definition: Benefactress

Benefactress

Noun

1. A woman benefactor.

Date "benefactress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references)

"Benefactress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Benefactress" is used about 3 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)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "benefactress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mirëbërëse. (various references)

Arabic		‏المحسنة. (various references)

Czech		dobrodinka. (various references)

Finnish		hyväntekijä (benefactor). (various references)

French		bienfaitrice. (various references)

German		wohltäterin, gönnerin (patroness). (various references)

Greek		ευεργέτιδα. (various references)

Hungarian		jótevő nő. (various references)

Italian		benefattrice. (various references)

Korean		여자 후원자. (various references)

Manx		ben viallagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		enefactressbay

Portuguese		benfeitora (patroness). (various references)

Romanian		binefãcãtoare. (various references)

Russian		благодетельница. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dobrotvorka. (various references)

Spanish		benefactora. (various references)

Swedish		välgörarinna. (various references)

Turkish		hayırsever kadın (lady bountiful). (various references)

Ukranian		благодійниця, доброчинниця. (various references)

Vietnamese		người l� m ơn (benefactor). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Avestan	200-600	dâthrish. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "benefactress": benefactresses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "benefactress" (pronounced 'Ben`e*fac"tress'): Advoutress, Cloistress, Creatress, Dictatress, Doctress, Fautress, Fostress, Introductress, Littress, Maistress, Malefactress, Mastress, mattress, Mulattress, Portress, Preceptress, Productress, Rectress, sculptress, Seductress, traitress, Tutress, Victress, Votress. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-f-n-r-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: absentees, absenters, bescreens, cabernets, erectness, fasteners, fenestrae, freebases, reascents, refastens, sarcenets.
	-4 letters: absences, absentee, absenter, acerbest, assenter, bareness, bescreen, cabernet, casernes, cateress, centares, centeses, cerastes, earnests, esterase, fastener, feasters, fenestra, freebase, freeness, reascent, reenacts, refasten, refences, sarcenet, sarsenet, secretes, serenate, serenest, sesterce, tenebrae, tesserae.
	-5 letters: absence, absents, actress, afreets, ancress, ascents, banters, basters.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-f-n-r-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: benefactresses.
	+5 letters: comfortablenesses.
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