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Definitions: -OUS |
-OUS1. A suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc. 2. An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc. |
Crosswords: -OUS |
| English words defined with "-OUS": -ic ♦ Iodous ♦ -ite. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "-OUS": Neuropodous ♦ Pignoration. (references) |
| "-OUS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "-OUS" is used about 2 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Words ending with "ous": Torous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sou. | |
| Words within the letters "o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: duos, nous, onus, opus, ouds, ours, oust, outs, souk, soul, soup, sour, sous, sumo, udos. | |
+2 letters: autos, bogus, bolus, bonus, bosun, bouse, bousy, bouts, buoys, conus, coups, cusso, doums, douse, duros, euros, focus, fouls, fours, gouts, gusto, hocus, hours, house, jouks, joust, judos, kudos, kusso, locus, lotus, louis, loups, lours, louse, lousy, louts, meous, modus, momus, moues, mouse, mousy, muons, nodus, nouns, ouphs, ousel, ousts, ouzos, pious, poufs, pours, pouts, quods, roues, roups, rouse, roust, routs, sajou, scour, scout, scudo, shout, shoyu, snout, solum, solus, sorus, sough, souks, souls, sound, soups, soupy, sours, souse, south, soyuz, spout, stoup, stour, stout, sudor, sulfo, sumos, swoun, thous, tofus, tolus, tonus, torus, tours, touse, touts, umbos, uncos, updos, yours, youse. | |
+3 letters: amours, arouse, audios, aurous, ausubo, awmous, bayous, bijous, blouse, blousy, bosque, bosuns, boughs, boules, bounds, bourgs, bourns, bourse, boused, bouses, buboes, buckos, buffos, buncos, bunkos, burros, busboy, buteos, cerous, chorus, chouse, choush, clonus, clouds, clours, clouts, coccus, coitus, coleus, comous, consul, cornus, corpus, coughs, coulis, counts, coupes, course, courts, cousin, couths, coypus, crocus, croups, crouse, cruors, curios, cursor, cussos, custom, custos, cymous, donuts, doofus, dorsum, doubts, doughs, doumas, douras, doused, douser, douses, drouks, duomos, durocs, ensoul, erugos, escudo, exodus, famous, flours, flouts, fluors, foetus, fondus, forums, founds, founts, fucose, fucous, fugios, furors, fusion, futons, ghouls, glomus, glouts, gluons, gouges, gourds, groups, grouse, grouts, guacos, guanos, guiros, gumbos, guyots, hokums, hounds, houris, housed, housel, houser, houses, hullos, humors, insoul, iodous, jorums, jouals, joules, jousts, joyous, jumbos, juncos, juntos, jupons, jurors, khoums, knouts, koumis, koumys, kouros, kousso, kussos, locums, locust, loughs, louies, loupes, loused, louses, lupous, miaous, moguls, mohurs, mosque, moulds, moults, mounds, mounts, mourns, moused, mouser, mouses, mousey, mousse, mouths, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros, mungos, mutons, nodous, nonuse, nouses, oakums, obelus, obolus, obtuse, occurs, oculus, odeums, odious, odiums, odours, oleums, omasum, onrush, onuses, opiums, opuses, oscula, oscule, osmium, osmous, osmund, ostium, ouches, oughts, ounces, ouphes, ousels, ousted, ouster, outask, outers, outgas, outsat, outsaw, outsee, outset, outsin, outsit, ouzels, ovules, parous, pilous, poilus, porous, poseur, possum, pouffs, poults, pounds, poyous, pseudo, puntos, putons, quoins, quoits, quotas, quotes, ramous, rimous, robust, rogues, roques, rouens, rouges, roughs, rounds, roused, rouser, rouses, rousts, routes, rouths, rufous, rugosa, rugose, rugous, rumors, sajous, sapour, savour, scours, scouse, scouth, scouts, serous, setous, setout, shogun, should, shouts, shoyus, shroud, slouch, slough, snouts, snouty, sobful, sodium, soleus, solums, solute, souari, soucar, soudan, soughs, sought, souled, sounds, souped, source, soured, sourer, sourly, soused, souses, souter, souths, spouse, spouts, sprout, stound, stoups, stoure, stours, stoury, stouts, stroud, stucco, studio, stupor, subito, sublot, suborn, succor, sudors, suitor, sukkot, summon, sunbow, sundog, swound, swouns, togues, tophus, toques, torous, tossup, toughs, toused, touses, tousle, trouts, tumors, turbos, tussor, tutors, ugsome, undoes, unions, unison, unshod, unsold, unsown, unstop, upbows, upmost, uprose, upshot, upsoar, uptoss, uredos, utmost, uveous, venous, vinous, voduns, vogues, vrouws, wounds, youngs, youths, yupons, zounds. | |
| 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 4F 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00101101 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)- O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)002D 004F 0055 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)15495553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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