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Definition: CANTOS |
CANTOSPlural1. Of Canto |
Date "CANTOS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Heroes, Cantos. Most nouns ending in o add es to form the plural; as, heroes, negroes, potatoes, stuccoes, manifestoes, mosquitoes. Words ending in io or yo add s; as, folios, nuncios, olios, ratios, embryos. The following words, being less frequently used, often puzzle us to know whether to add s or es to form the plural: armadillos, cantos, cuckoos, halos, juntos, octavos, provisos, salvos, solos, twos, tyros, virtuosos. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CANTOS |
| Specialty definitions using "CANTOS": Faërie Queene ♦ Haidee, Heroes ♦ Kumara ♦ Orlando Furioso ♦ Raghu. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CANTOS": Canto. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CANTOS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (canthus), Spanish (follicle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flores y cantos (1973) Tres cantos (1948) | |
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| "CANTOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CANTOS" is used about 73 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% | 73 | 39,105 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CANTOS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cantos | Last name | 300 | 29,231 |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CANTOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Gesänge (chants, singings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antoscay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CANTOS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: candus, Canossa, cantasi, Cantes, cantii, Cantlow, Cantock, cantoo, cantop, canus, canutes, Canuto, canutus, canvos, Catfoss, Cathos, catons, cattoes, cattus, Cenbose, centis, centros, Cingoz, Cinos, Cinto, citos, contis, conto, cuanto, cuantos, cunto, Jantos, katos, santos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cotans, octans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, coast, coats, costa, cotan, octan, santo, scant, tacos. | |
-2 letters: acts, ants, cans, cant, cast, cats, coat, cons, cost, cots, naos, nota, oast, oats, ocas, scan, scat, scot, snot, stoa, taco, tans, taos, tons. | |
-3 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, cos, cot, nos, not, oat, oca, ons, sac, sat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: actions, atonics, cantons, cantors, cartons, cations, conatus, contras, cratons, octanes, octants, sacaton, toucans. | |
+2 letters: accounts, acetones, aconites, actinons, agnostic, ancestor, auctions, canoeist, canonist, cantdogs, capstone, captions, carotins, cartoons, cautions, centavos, chantors, chitosan, coagents, coasting, coatings, coenacts, cognates, congrats, constant, contacts, contains, contrast, coolants, corantos, cosecant, courants, downcast, enactors, endocast, factions, jaconets, lactones, monastic, nonfacts, notecase, octagons, octanols, opencast, oscitant, osculant, ostracon, pactions, sacatons, sanction, sonantic, sonicate, stockman, tachyons, tacnodes, tactions, wainscot, zacatons. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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