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Definitions: Caramel |
CaramelAdjective1. Having the color of caramel; a moderate yellow-brown. Noun1. Firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk. 2. Burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food. 3. A medium to dark tan color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caramel" was first used: 1725. (references) |
Etymology: Caramel \Car"a*mel\, noun. [French expression caramel (Compare to Spanish caramelo), Late Latin expression canna mellis, cannamella, canamella, calamellus mellitus, sugar cane, from or confused with Latin canna reed mel, mellis, honey. See Cane.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | = cermet. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Brown substance formed by heating sugar and used for colouring certain spirits and wines. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Non-crystallisable substance obtained by pyrogenation from sugars or from molasses. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: CaramelSynonyms: buff (n), caramel brown (n), caramelized sugar (n), raw sienna (n), yellowish brown (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caramel |
| English words defined with "caramel": Black-jack ♦ caramel apple, caramel brown, caramel bun, caramelise, caramelize, Caromel, creme caramel ♦ popcorn ball. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caramel": CANDY CUTTER, HAND, CANDY SPREADER, candy-maker helper, car coat ♦ MOLASSES AND CARAMEL OPERATOR ♦ SUPERVISOR, SUGAR HOUSE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Caramel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (caramel, fudge), Manx (caramel), Romanian (caramel). |
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Lyrics | I take them caramel with a hint of vanilla ("What's Your Flava?"; performing artist: Craig David) | |
Tongue Twisters | How much caramel can a canny cannibal cram into a camel, if a canny cannibal can cram caramel into a camel? (references; author: unknown) | |
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| "Caramel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.43% of the time. "Caramel" is used about 70 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 (singular) | 91.43% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.86% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "caramel": caramel apple ♦ caramel brown ♦ caramel bun ♦ caramel caramel brown ♦ caramel custard ♦ cream caramel ♦ creme caramel. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "caramel": caramel-coated. | |
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| 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 "caramel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sheqerkë (candy, Goody, sugarplum, sweet, sweetie, sweetmeat, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy), sheqer i karamelizuar (candy), karamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرملية كرامل, قطعة من الحلوى الدبقة, سكر محروق كرامل أو حلوى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | karamelu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | светло кафяв цвят, карамел (burnt sugar, rock candy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 焦糖 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pálený cukr, karamelová barva, karamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | caramel, karamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکجورشیرینی مرکب ازقندوشیره ومیوه , مایل به قرمز, قندسوخته , تافی (Butterscotch, Taffy), رنگ زرد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poltettu sokeri, karamelliväri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caramel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καραμέλλα (lozenge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שזף סוכר, קרמל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karamell (burnt sugar, toffee), égetett cukor (burnt sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kembang gula (bonbon), gula bakar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caramello (bonbon, candy, lozenge, sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キャ"ネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes), カルボン酸 (carboxylic acid, Karma), カルメ焼 (Carlos, curry, curry and rice, curry corner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キャラメル , カルメラ , カルメやき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caramel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | caramèl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aramelcay caramelo (blackjack, bonbon, candy, cream candy, lozenge, nicy, sweet, toffee). (various references) caramelã (toffee), caramel. (various references) карамель, жженый сахар. (various references) karamela (taffy toffy, toffee, toffy). (various references) caramelo (bonbon, candy, humbug, lozenge, sweet, taffy, toffee). (various references) kola (coal, croak, pass out, toffee, toffy). (various references) สีน้ำตาลอมเหลือง (buff), ที่มีสีน้ำตาลอมเหลือง (buff), คาราเมล. (various references) karamela (butterscotch, candy), karamel. (various references) карамель. (various references) đường thắng kẹo caramen m u nâu nhạt, đường caramen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | caramel. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caramel": caramelise, caramelised, caramelises, caramelising, caramelize, caramelized, caramelizes, caramelizing, caramels. (additional references) | |
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"Caramel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arame, Aromel, Caerfanell, caracel, caramelly, caramelo, Carapelli, carbamoyl, Carbamyl, careem, carmal, Carmela, Cartmell, caruanae, ceramel, Cramley, Korumel, Nagriamel, Narazel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "caramel" (pronounced ke"rumul) |
| 4 | -u m u l | animal, decimal, infinitesimal, maximal, minimal, optimal, proximal. |
| 3 | -m u l | abnormal, abysmal, baptismal, camel, dermal, dismal, enamel, endodermal, epidermal, formal, geothermal, Hamal, hydrothermal, informal, isothermal, mammal, mesodermal, normal, paranormal, pommel, primal, pummel, thermal, tramel, trammel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cameral, ceramal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: calmer, camera, marcel. | |
-2 letters: alarm, areal, areca, camel, carle, clear, craal, cream, lacer, lamer, macer, macle, malar, realm. | |
-3 letters: acme, acre, alae, alar, alec, alma, alme, area, calm, came, care, carl, clam, cram, earl, lace, lama, lame, lear, maar, mace, male, marc, mare, marl, meal, merl, race, rale, real, ream. | |
-4 letters: aal, ace, ala. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: caramels, ceramals. | |
+2 letters: acclaimer, bicameral, cablegram. | |
+3 letters: acclaimers, acromegaly, acrylamide, aldermanic, alphameric, amerciable, cablegrams, calamander, calamaries, camelopard, campestral, caramelise, caramelize, carmagnole, cavalrymen, clawhammer, comparable, macroscale, malefactor, menarcheal, metacarpal, ramshackle, sarcolemma, scleromata, unicameral. | |
+4 letters: acromegalic, acrylamides, aeromedical, aeronomical, blackmailer, calamanders, camelopards, candelabrum, caramelised, caramelises, caramelized, caramelizes, carmagnoles, cavalierism, chamberlain, declamatory, diametrical, emasculator, embraceable, exclamatory, macroscales, malefactors, malpractice, marketplace, marshalcies, matriculate, metacarpals, paramedical, parenchymal, reclaimable, reclamation, sacramental, sarcolemmal, sarcolemmas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 61 6D 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .- -- . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100001 01101101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r a m e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0061 006D 0065 006C |
| 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)37678467797178 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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