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-ISM

Definition: -ISM

-ISM

1. A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -ISM

Specialty definitions using "-ISM": creeping featuritis. (references)
Etymologies containing "-ISM": AnilinismBromoiodismEgotismIsomeromorphismmercurialismNicotinismOvismSpermismtropism, TychismZionism, Zoism. (references)

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Usage Frequency: -ISM

"-ISM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "-ISM" is used about 3 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)66.67%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Modern Translations: -ISM

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

Chinese 

  

惟 (only), å"¯ (alone, only, yes), 主義 (ideology). (various references)

   

German

  

-ismus. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

イスラム文化 (Islamic culture, Isvestia, Izvestia). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

イズム. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: -ISM

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ism, mis, sim.

Words within the letters "i-m-s"

-1 letter: is, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "i-m-s"
 

+1 letter: aims, amis, dims, imps, isms, jism, mibs, mids, migs, mils, mirs, mise, miso, miss, mist, nims, rims, semi, shim, sima, simp, sims, skim, slim, smit, swim, vims.

 

+2 letters: agism, amias, amids, amies, amins, amirs, amiss, bimas, brims, deism, dimes, disme, emirs, emits, films, firms, gimps, gismo, glims, iambs, imams, imids, impis, items, jisms, limas, limbs, limes, limns, limos, limps, maids, mails, maims, mains, mairs, maist, mavis, maxis, mesic, metis, miasm, micas, micks, midis, midst, miens, miffs, miggs, mikes, miles, milks, mills, milos, milts, mimes, minas, minds, mines, minis, minks, mints, minus, mires, mirks, misdo, miser, mises, misos, missy, mists, misty, mites, mitis, mitts, mixes, moils, moist, munis, music, mysid, omits, osmic, oxims, pimas, pimps, prims, prism, rimes, salmi, scrim, seism, semis, shims, sigma, simar, simas, simps, sixmo, skimo, skimp, skims, slime, slims, slimy, smile, smirk, smite, smith, stime, stimy, swami, swims, tamis, times, trims, whims, wimps.

 

+3 letters: admits, ageism, agisms, ahimsa, aimers, ambits, amices, amicus, amides, amidst, amigas, amigos, amines, amnios, amusia, animas, animes, animis, animus, armies, autism, axioms, bedims, bemist, bimahs, bimbos, biomes, blimps, camisa, camise, cesium, chiasm, chimbs, chimes, chimps, chirms, chrism, civism, claims, climbs, climes, comics, cosmic, crimes, crimps, cubism, cumins, deisms, demies, demise, demits, denims, dermis, desmid, dimers, disarm, dismal, dismay, dismes, egoism, elemis, emails, emesis, eonism, famish, favism, fermis, flimsy, gamins, gimels, gimmes, gismos, gizmos, glimes, grimes, hakims, hemins, holism, iambus, idioms, ihrams, images, imagos, imaums, imbeds, imbues, imides, imines, immesh, immies, impels, impish, impose, impost, inarms, inmesh, inmost, inseam, iodism, isomer, isthmi, jasmin, kamiks, kamsin, kelims, kermis, kilims, kismat, kismet, koumis, kumiss, lamias, limans, limbas, limbos, limbus, limens, limeys, limits, limpas, limpsy, linums, lissom, litmus, lyrism, mafias, magics, mailes, maills, maists, maizes, mamies, manias, manics, mantis, maquis, marish, mashie, masjid, massif, mastic, mastix, matins, mavies, mavins, maxims, mbiras, medias, medics, medius, merits, mesial, mesian, miaous, miaows, miasma, miasms, miauls, miches, micros, midges, midsts, mights, mikvos, milers, milles, milpas, mimeos, mimers, mimics, mimosa, minces, miners, minims, minish, minkes, minors, minxes, mioses, miosis, mirths, mirzas, misact, misadd, misaim, misate, miscue, miscut, misdid, miseat, misers, misery, misfit, mishap, mishit, miskal, mislay, misled, mislie, mislit, mismet, mispen, missal, missay, missed, missel, misses, misset, missis, missus, misted, mister, misuse, miters, mitres, mixers, mixups, mizens, modish, moires, molies, momism, monies, monish, monism, monist, mopish, morris, mosaic, motifs, movies, moxies, mucins, muesli, muftis, mujiks, mulish, murids, muscid, musics, musing, musjid, muskie, muskit, muslin, mutism, myasis, myosin, myosis, mysids, mystic, nanism, nimbus, nizams, nomism, nudism, obiism, odiums, ogrism, opiums, osmics, osmium, ostium, oximes, passim, porism, primas, primes, primos, primps, primus, prisms, purism, racism, ramies, remise, remiss, remits, rimers, rimose, rimous, sadism, saimin, salami, salmis, samiel, samite, scampi, schism, scrimp, scrims, seisms, semina, sexism, shimmy, shrimp, sigmas, simars, simian, simile, simlin, simmer, simnel, simony, simoom, simoon, simper, simple, simply, sitcom, sixmos, skimos, skimps, skimpy, slimed, slimes, slimly, slimsy, smalti, smidge, smilax, smiled, smiler, smiles, smiley, smirch, smirks, smirky, smiter, smites, smiths, smithy, sodium, somite, spirem, squirm, stigma, stimes, stymie, submit, summit, surimi, swamis, swimmy, theism, timers, tmesis, truism, umiacs, umiaks, umiaqs, verism, vermis, vomits, whimsy, wisdom, zamias, zirams, zombis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: -ISM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0049 0053 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

15435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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