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"ACROSTICS" is a plural of: acrostic. |
Date "ACROSTICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Acrostics Puzzles, generally in verse, consisting of two words of equal length The initial letters of the several lines constitute one of the secret words, and the final letters constitute the other word. Also words re-arranged so as to make other words of similar significance, as "Horatio Nelson" re-arranged into Honor est a Nilo. Another form of acrostic is to find a sentence which reads the same backwards and forwards, as E.T.L.N.L.T.E., the initial letters of "Eat To Live, Never Live To Eat;" which in Latin would be, E.U.V.N.V.U.E. (Ede Ut Vivas, Ne Vivas Ut Edas). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ACROSTICS |
| English words defined with "ACROSTICS": Acrostical. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams. |
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| "ACROSTICS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACROSTICS" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
acrostics | 79 |
acrostics poem | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"ACROSTICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accostic, accrostic, accrostics, acroustic, Marostica. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acrostic. | |
-2 letters: accosts, acrotic, aorists, arctics, aristos, castors, corsacs, costars, racists, sacrist, satoris, scotias. | |
-3 letters: accost, across, actors, aorist, aortic, arctic, aristo, ascots, assort, castor, ciscos, coacts, coasts, coatis, corsac, costar, crasis, crissa, crista, racist, ratios, roasts, satori, scarts, scoria, scotia, scrota, sistra, sitars, stairs, stoics, tarocs, triacs, tsoris. | |
-4 letters: actor, airts, arsis, ascot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: desiccators, escharotics. | |
+3 letters: confiscators, coruscations, gastroscopic, macrocytosis. | |
+4 letters: accordionists, aristocracies, chiaroscurist, chromaticisms, consecrations, crosshatching, microcassette, microcrystals, prostacyclins, sacrosanctity, stratocracies. | |
+5 letters: antiscorbutics, bronchiectases, bronchiectasis, bronchospastic, carcinomatoses, carcinomatosis, chiaroscurists, classificatory, clavichordists, coconspirators, commercialists, electrostatics, microcassettes, pantisocracies, pococurantisms, scarifications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 52 4F 53 54 49 43 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .-. --- ... - .. -.-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C R O S T I C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0052 004F 0053 0054 0049 0043 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)353752495354433753 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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