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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. |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CRE | English | Committee of regulation for electricity | Law |
CRE | French | Commission de régulation de l'électricité | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.77% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.84% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 14.49% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 2.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | enzyme Cre (Cre enzyme). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ecray | ||||
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). | |
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. | |
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| 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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