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Definitions: -ISH |
-ISH1. A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish. 2. A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white. |
Crosswords: -ISH |
| Etymologies containing "-ISH": Peevish ♦ Submonish. (references) |
| "-ISH" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "-ISH" is used about 10 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "-ISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | -al. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: his. | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-s" | |
-1 letter: hi, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-s" | |
+1 letter: chis, dish, fish, ghis, hies, hins, hips, hisn, hiss, hist, hits, ichs, khis, phis, pish, shim, shin, ship, shit, shiv, shri, sigh, sinh, sith, this, wish. | |
+2 letters: aphis, apish, chias, chics, chins, chips, chits, cuish, dashi, dishy, fishy, girsh, hafis, haiks, hails, hairs, hajis, heils, heirs, heist, hicks, hides, highs, hikes, hills, hilts, hilus, hinds, hints, hires, hissy, hists, hives, hoise, hoist, kiths, knish, nighs, ohias, piths, rishi, sahib, saith, sheik, shied, shiel, shier, shies, shift, shill, shily, shims, shine, shins, shiny, ships, shire, shirk, shirr, shirt, shist, shits, shiva, shive, shivs, shoji, shris, shtik, sighs, sight, sinhs, sixth, smith, spahi, stich, sushi, swish, swith, thins, whids, whigs, whims, whins, whips, whirs, whish, whisk, whist, whits, wisha. | |
+3 letters: aguish, ahimsa, airths, aphids, arshin, ashier, ashing, aspish, banish, bights, bimahs, births, bishop, bluish, boyish, chains, chairs, chaise, chiasm, chiaus, chicks, chicos, chides, chiefs, chiels, chiles, chilis, chills, chimbs, chimes, chimps, chinas, chines, chinks, chinos, chints, chirks, chirms, chiros, chirps, chirrs, chisel, chives, choirs, chrism, coyish, danish, dashis, dhobis, dhotis, dhutis, dights, dished, dishes, dovish, dryish, dudish, eights, elfish, elvish, ethics, faiths, famish, fetish, fiches, fichus, fifths, fights, filths, finish, firths, fished, fisher, fishes, friths, garish, geisha, ghazis, girths, goyish, griths, habits, hadjis, haggis, haikus, hajjis, hakims, halids, heishi, heists, helios, hemins, hiatus, hiders, hights, hikers, hillos, hinges, hippos, hirers, hirsel, hirsle, hispid, hissed, hisser, hisses, histed, hoicks, hoised, hoises, hoists, holies, holism, holist, hosier, hosing, houris, hubris, huskie, hybris, hyoids, ichors, ihrams, immesh, impish, inches, inmesh, inrush, ischia, isohel, isthmi, itches, jadish, jihads, khadis, khakis, kibosh, kirsch, kishka, kishke, kithes, kitsch, laichs, laighs, lathis, latish, lavish, liches, lichis, lichts, lights, lithos, lowish, marish, mashie, miches, mights, minish, mirths, mishap, mishit, modish, monish, mopish, mulish, neighs, newish, niches, nights, nihils, ninths, oafish, oddish, offish, ogrish, oldish, orchis, owlish, palish, parish, perish, phasic, phasis, phials, phizes, physic, physis, pished, pishes, poisha, polish, popish, punish, rachis, radish, rakish, raphis, ravish, rawish, relish, reship, rhinos, riches, rights, rishis, sahibs, saithe, sandhi, schism, schist, schizo, schizy, schrik, schtik, schuit, scyphi, seiche, shaird, shairn, shanti, sharif, shavie, sheikh, sheiks, sheila, sherif, shibah, shield, shiels, shiers, shiest, shifts, shifty, shikar, shiksa, shikse, shills, shimmy, shindy, shined, shiner, shines, shinny, shires, shirks, shirrs, shirts, shirty, shists, shitty, shivah, shivas, shiver, shives, shojis, shriek, shrift, shrike, shrill, shrimp, shrine, shrink, shrive, shtick, shtiks, shying, sighed, sigher, sights, siphon, sirrah, sixths, skeigh, sleigh, slight, smirch, smiths, smithy, snitch, spahis, sphinx, spilth, squish, stichs, stitch, stithy, sushis, swishy, switch, swithe, tahsil, theins, theirs, theism, theist, thesis, thicks, thighs, thills, things, thinks, thiols, thirds, thirls, thirst, thrips, thyrsi, tights, tilths, tithes, tonish, toyish, tushie, unship, unwish, uppish, vanish, weighs, whiffs, whiles, whilst, whimsy, whines, whirls, whirrs, whisht, whisks, whisky, whists, whites, whosis, wiches, widish, widths, wights, winish, wished, wisher, wishes, withes, yirths. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)2D 49 53 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00101101 01001001 01010011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)- I S H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)002D 0049 0053 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)15435342 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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