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Definition: PERSEID |
PERSEIDNoun1. One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862. |
"PERSEID" is a common misspelling or typo for: paresis, parsed, perked, persuade, perused, precede, preside, pressed, pursed, pursued. |
| 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 |
discovery meteor perseid shower | 93 |
perseid meteor shower | 56 |
2003 meteor perseid shower | 11 |
perseid | 10 |
perseid meteor | 6 |
meteor meteor perseid shower | 3 |
discovery meteor perseid | 2 |
meteor peak perseid shower | 2 |
2003 meteor perseid | 2 |
2003 perseid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: preside, speired, spiered. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: desire, eiders, espied, peised, perdie, prides, prised, redips, reside, spider, spired. | |
-2 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dries, drips, eider, pedes, peers, peise, peris, perse, piers, preed, prees, prese, pride, pried, pries, prise, redes, redip, reeds, resid, rides, riped, ripes, seder, sered, siped, sired, siree, speed, speer, speir, spied, spier, spire, spree. | |
-3 letters: deep, deer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airspeed, demireps, deprives, despiser, disperse, duperies, epiderms, impeders, perished, precised, preedits, premised, presided, presider, presides, prevised, priested, reprised, respired, respited, simpered, speedier. | |
+2 letters: airspeeds, bediapers, crispened, deciphers, depicters, deprivers, despaired, despairer, despisers, despoiler, diplexers, dispenser, dispersed, disperser, disperses, disrepute, distemper, draperies, eldership, ephedrins, epidermis, impressed, insphered, pedaliers, pedicures, pedigrees, pedlaries, pedleries, perfidies, periderms, peroxides, persisted, perspired, phrensied, predigest, premedics, president, presiders, presifted, presliced, priedieus, proteides, pruderies, redeposit, redispose, reimposed, reposited, reshipped, respliced, skippered, slippered, spiderier, spiderweb, superwide, whispered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 53 45 49 44 |
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