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Date "BLOOD-LETTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The technic of venesection may be described briefly. . . . --the letting of blood in the treatment of a disease. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The scars on his abdomen testify to blood-letting rituals. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Crow.. |
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| "BLOOD-LETTING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "BLOOD-LETTING" is used about 15 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) | 86.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLOOD-LETTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | venaesectio (bloodletting, phlebotomy), aareladning (bloodletting, phlebotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aderlating (bleeding, loss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sangellaso (bleeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | saignée (bleating, bled, bleeding, bloodletting), phlébotomie (bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aderlassen (bloodletting, phlebotomy), Aderlass (bleeding, blood letting, phlebotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφαίμαξη (bleeding, blood letting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salasso (bleeding, bloodletting, drain, phlebotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey folley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ood-lettingblay sangria (bleed, cupping, depletion). (various references) кровопускание (bleeding, bloodletting, depletion, phlebotomy, venesection). (various references) sangría (bend, bleeding, indentation, phlebotomy, sangaree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bloodletting. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-t" | |
-3 letters: bloodline. | |
-4 letters: blooding, blotting, boodling, bottling, tootling. | |
-5 letters: belling, belting, betting, bigoted, biltong, blotted, bolling, bolting, boogied, booting, bootleg, bottled, dolling, dotting, eidolon, eobiont, gillnet, glenoid, glinted, globoid, ignoble, ingoted, lentigo, lentoid, letting, looting, lotting, obliged, telling, tingled, tolling, tooling, tooting, tootled. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: bloodlettings. | |
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