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ALLUMETTE

Definition: ALLUMETTE

ALLUMETTE

Noun

1. A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Allumette \Al`lu`mette\, noun. [French expression, from allumer to light.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: ALLUMETTE

Non-English Usage: "ALLUMETTE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (Lucifer, match).

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ALLUMETTE

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
allumette	3
allumette quebec	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: ALLUMETTE

Language		Translations for "ALLUMETTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		lac aux Allumettes (Allumette Lake). (various references)

Pig Latin		allumetteay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ALLUMETTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: emulate.
	-3 letters: amulet, eluate, luteal, mallee, mallet, metate, mettle, muleta, mullet, mutate.
	-4 letters: allee, elate, elute, latte, lutea, matte, metal, mulla, telae, tulle, tutee, ulema.
	-5 letters: alee, alme, alum, emeu, lame, late, leal, leet, lute, male, mall, malt, mate, matt, maul, maut, meal, meat, meet, mell, melt, meta, mete, mule, mull, mute, mutt, tael.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-t-t-u"
	+4 letters: multinucleate, multitalented, penultimately.
	+5 letters: multinucleated.
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.

Alternative Orthography: ALLUMETTE

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

41 4C 4C 55 4D 45 54 54 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01001100 01001100 01010101 01001101 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#76 &#85 &#77 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004C 0055 004D 0045 0054 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

354646554739545439

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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