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Definition: Capone |
CaponeNoun1. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Capone" is a common misspelling or typo for: capon. |
Synonyms: CaponeSynonyms: Al Capone (n), Alphonse Capone (n), Scarface (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Capone |
| English words defined with "Capone": Al Capone, Alphonse Capone. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do? (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) Mackey is not a cop. He's Al Capone with a badge. (The Shield; writing credit: Brian Freyermuth) And I want dirty money only, everything you're holding for Capone that's off the books. (Road to Perdition; writing credit: Max Allan Collins; Richard Piers Rayner) Well, you're a liar Like every hoodlum since Cain up through Capone, you've learned to hide behind some quirk in the law. And mister, you are a two-bit hoodlum. (Dragnet 1966; writing credit: Richard L. Breen; Jack Webb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Regreso de Al Capone (1969) Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969) Due mafiosi contro Al Capone (1966) Al Capone (1959) Little Capone (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Al Capone, with a cigar and a big smile, leaving Federal building in Miami, Fla., preceded by his attorney Abe Teitelbaum.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chicago Cubs player Gabby Hartnett autographing a baseball for Sonny Capone who is sitting with his father Al Capone and other gangsters at a charity baseball game.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Capone" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capone" is used about 21 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 (proper) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Capone" 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 |
| Capone | Last name | 2,000 | 6,329 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Capone": Al Capone ♦ Alphonse Capone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
al capone | 1,178 | capone lyrics mr | 8 |
capone | 250 | capone foe | 8 |
capone e mr | 146 | al capone prohibition | 8 |
al capone picture | 119 | capone lyrics n noreaga | 8 |
capone n noreaga | 87 | al capone poster | 8 |
al capone biography | 48 | capone cue | 7 |
capone mr | 41 | capone e mr picture | 7 |
capone noreaga | 32 | al capone movie | 7 |
capone e | 31 | al capone scarface | 7 |
capone e lyrics mr | 29 | capone nore | 6 |
al capone quote | 27 | cetrulo capone | 6 |
al capone cigar | 25 | al capone line time | 5 |
al capone photo | 24 | dj capone | 5 |
al capone pic | 23 | capone e lyrics | 5 |
al capone history | 22 | capone mae | 5 |
alphonse capone | 15 | capone e mr pic | 5 |
al capone museum | 12 | al capone hideout | 5 |
capone frank | 9 | al capone frank | 5 |
capone lyrics | 9 | al bio capone | 4 |
capone sonny | 9 | chaiken capone | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Misspellings | |
"Capone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aponte, cajone, Campine, Campione, Capanne, Capener, capense, Capie, Capino, Capponi, captone, Capuana, Carpano, Carpene, Caupenne, Chapone, Ciapino, Cofone, Cuproine, Kapeno, Kapon, kapuni, Kupona, Scapania. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: canoe, capon, copen, ocean, paeon, pecan, ponce. | |
-2 letters: acne, aeon, cane, cape, capo, cone, cope, nape, neap, nope, once, open, pace, pane, pean, peon, pone. | |
-3 letters: ace, ane, ape, can, cap, cep, con, cop, eon, nae, nap, oca, one, ope, pac, pan, pea, pec, pen. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, en, na, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: apnoeic, panoche. | |
+2 letters: apocrine, canephor, canopied, canopies, caponier, caponize, capstone, cenotaph, chaperon, conepate, conepatl, coparent, endocarp, opencast, panoches, portance, procaine. | |
+3 letters: campesino, canephors, caponiers, caponized, caponizes, capstones, captioned, cenotaphs, chaperone, chaperons, companied, companies, compendia, conepates, conepatls, coparents, copartner, copayment, cyclopean, cymophane, decapodan, encompass, endocarps, moonscape, poignance, policeman, porcelain, portances, procaines, procreant, proscenia, snowscape, syncopate, townscape. | |
| 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)43 61 70 6F 6E 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. --- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 006F 006E 0065 |
| 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)376782818071 |
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