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CRE

Date "CRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

"CRE" is a common misspelling or typo for: care, core, creed, creek, creel, creep, crew, cry, cure.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CRE

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CRE

EnglishCommittee of regulation for electricityLaw

CRE

FrenchCommission de régulation de l'électricitéN/A

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

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Commercial Usage: CRE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Forced March to Loon Cre (reference)

  • The True reporte of the prosperous successe which God gaue vnto our English souldiours against the forraine bands of our Romaine enemies, lately ariued (but soone inough to theyr cost) in Ireland in the yeare 1580, gathered out of the letters of moste cre (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CRE

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

During the period of September 1996 to the end of June of 2000, CRE awarded a total of 21 distribution permits and 16 transportation permits to private companies. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

The CRE monitors the response to such notices for 5 years. (references)

United Kingdom

After investigating a complaint, the CRE may issue a notice requiring that the discrimination be stopped. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CRE

"CRE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.77% of the time. "CRE" is used about 69 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
Noun (singular)63.77%4451,500
Noun (proper)18.84%1397,576
Unclassified Items14.49%10111,207
Noun (common)2.9%2245,945
                    Total100.00%69N/A

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

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Expressions: CRE

Expression using "CRE": Cre enzyme. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CRE": Cre-ange, cre-binding.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRE

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

cre ecuador

14

cre lox

4

colliers cre

3

50 cre hm

2

endo cre

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CRE

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

French

  

enzyme Cre (Cre enzyme). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CRE

Derivations

Words beginning with "CRE": creak, creaked, creakier, creakiest, creakily, creakiness, creakinesses, creaking, creaks, creaky, cream, creamcups, creamed, creamer, creameries, creamers, creamery, creamier, creamiest, creamily, creaminess, creaminesses, creaming, creampuff, creampuffs, creams, creamware, creamwares, creamy, crease, creased, creaseless, creaser, creasers, creases, creasier, creasiest, creasing, creasy, create, created, creates, creatin, creatine, creatines, creating, creatinine, creatinines, creatins, creation, creationism. (additional references)

Words ending with "CRE": acre, chancre, fiacre, involucre, lucre, massacre, mediocre, nacre, simulacre, stavesacre, sucre, wiseacre. (additional references)

Words containing "CRE": accredit, accreditable, accreditation, accreditations, accredited, accrediting, accredits, accrete, accreted, accretes, accreting, accretion, accretionary, accretions, accretive, acreage, acreages, acred, acres, aircrew, aircrews, airscrew, airscrews, anacreontic, anacreontics, ancress, ancresses, anticreative, antisecrecy, bescreen, bescreened, bescreening, bescreens, chancres, cocreate, cocreated, cocreates, cocreating, cocreator, cocreators, concrescence, concrescences, concrescent, concrete, concreted, concretely, concreteness, concretenesses, concretes, concreting, concretion. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rec.

Words within the letters "c-e-r"

-1 letter: er, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-r"
 

+1 letter: acre, care, cere, cero, cire, core, crew, cure, ecru, race, reck, recs, rice.

 

+2 letters: acerb, acred, acres, arced, areca, areic, brace, caber, cadre, cager, caner, caper, cared, carer, cares, caret, carex, carle, carse, carte, carve, cater, caver, cedar, ceder, ceorl, cerci, cered, ceres, ceria, ceric, ceros, chare, cheer, chert, chore, cider, cires, citer, clear, clerk, coder, comer, cooer, coper, cored, corer, cores, corse, cover, cower, coyer, crake, crane, crape, crate, crave, craze, creak, cream, credo, creed, creek, creel, creep, creme, crepe, crept, crepy, cress, crest, crews, cried, crier, cries, crime, cripe, crone, crore, croze, crude, cruel, cruet, cruse, cuber, cured, curer, cures, curet, curie, curse, curve, cuter, cyder, decor, decry, dicer, dreck, ecrus, erect, erica, eruct, escar, facer, farce, force, grace, icier, icker, lacer, lucre, macer, mercy, nacre, nicer, ocher, ochre, ocker, ocrea, pacer, perch, price, raced, racer, races, rance, reach, react, rebec, recap, recce, recks, recon, recta, recti, recto, recur, recut, relic, retch, riced, ricer, rices, ruche, scare, score, scree, screw, serac, sucre, terce, trace, trice, truce, ulcer, ureic, wreck, xeric.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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