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EDITRESS

Definition: EDITRESS

EDITRESS

Noun

1. A female editor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Usage Frequency: EDITRESS

"EDITRESS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EDITRESS" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EDITRESS

Language Translations for "EDITRESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

editrice, editorialista (editor), scrittrice di articoli di fondo, redattrice. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

editressay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

director (chief executive, collocutor, conductor, director, editor, executive, governor, guv, head, headman, leader, leading, manager, master, officer, president, principal, provost, rector). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

editör (editor, editor in chief, publisher). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

редактор-жінка. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người thu thập v xuất bản nữ chủ bút. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EDITRESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "EDITRESS": editresses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EDITRESS"

Words rhyming with "EDITRESS" (pronounced 'Ed"i*tress'): Actress, Adulatress, Advoutress, Ancestress, Arbitress, Architectress, Auditress, Backstress, Benefactress, Cloistress, Competitress, Creatress, Dictatress, Doctress, Emulatress, Executress, Fabricatress, Fautress, fornicatress, Fostress, Huckstress, idolatress, Imitatress, Introductress, Littress, Maistress, Malefactress, Mastress, mattress, Ministress, Moderatress, Mulattress, Nomenclatress, Oratress, Portress, Preceptress, Productress, Progenitress, Proprietress, Rectress, schoolmistress, sculptress, seamstress, Seductress, sempstress, songstress, Spinstress, Stimulatress, traitress, tress, Tutress, Victress, Votress. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EDITRESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diesters, resisted, sistered.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: deserts, desires, dessert, diester, dieters, dissert, reedits, resides, resited, resites, strides, tressed.

-2 letters: deists, desert, desire, desist, deters, dieses, dieter, direst, driest, eiders, esters, reedit, reests, resets, reside, resids, resist, resite, rested, retied, reties, seders, seised, seiser, serest, series, sirees, sister, steeds, steers, steres, stride, tiered.

-3 letters: deers, deets, deist, deter, diets, dirts, dites, drees, dress, drest, dries, edits, eider, erses, ester, redes, reeds, reest, reset, resid, rests, retie, rides, rises, rites, seder, seeds, seers, seise, sered, seres, sides, sired, siree, sires, sited, sites, steed, steer, stere, stied, sties, stirs, terse, tides, tiers, tired, tires, treed, trees, tress, tried, tries.

-4 letters: deer, dees, deet, dere, dies, diet, dire, dirt, diss, dite, dits, dree, edit, eide, erst, eses, ides, ired, ires, rede, reds, reed, rees, reis, rest, rete, rets, ride, rids, rise, rite, seed, seer, sees, seis, sere, sers, sets, side, sire, sirs, site, sits, sris, stir, teds, teed, tees, tide, tied, tier, ties, tire, tree.

-5 letters: dee, die, dis, dit, eds, ere, ers, ess, ids, ire, its, red, ree, rei, res, ret, rid, see, sei, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sri, ted, tee, tie, tis.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bestrides, destriers, digesters, dissenter, disserted, dressiest, persisted, redigests, residents, restudies, siderites, steadiers, tiredness.

 

+2 letters: advertises, asterisked, dermestids, desertions, detersives, diestruses, directness, directress, disreputes, disrespect, dissenters, dissertate, distempers, distressed, distresses, dosimeters, editresses, missteered, predigests, presidents, redeposits, semidesert, servitudes, sidestream, sidestroke, spideriest, streamside, stridences, trendiness, waitressed, watersides.

 

+3 letters: adversities, advertisers, coresidents, dentistries, desiderates, dirtinesses, discreetest, disheartens, disinterest, disrespects, dissertated, dissertates, diversities, dosimetries, dysenteries, federalists, overstrides, pasteurised, pederasties, pedestrians, predestines, retiredness, rinderpests, semideserts, siderolites, sidestepper, sidestrokes, streamsides, stridencies, syncretised, tardinesses, threadiness, tirednesses, westernised.

 

+4 letters: adroitnesses, adversatives, copresidents, depositaries, depositories, dermatitises, desecrations, desensitizer, desperations, determinisms, determinists, directedness, directnesses, directresses, disbursement, discernments, discreetness, discreteness, disinterests, disrespected, disseverment, distilleries, distributees, divestitures, draftinesses, drysalteries, headmistress, indirectness, indorsements, intercrossed, interspersed, intrepidness, irredentisms, irredentists, ketosteroids, nightdresses, nonresidents, outsiderness, proselytised, redigestions, rescindments, resensitized, resuscitated, shirtdresses, shirtsleeved, sidesteppers, slipstreamed, spiritedness, stereopsides, sturdinesses, superintends, tawdrinesses, torridnesses, trendinesses, turbidnesses, turgidnesses, understories, understudies.

 

+5 letters: chesterfields, densitometers, desensitizers, desiderations, desultoriness, diastereomers, differentness, directionless, disaggregates, disagreements, disbursements, discourtesies, disenchanters, disintegrates, disinterested, disinterments, disorientates, disparateness, disrespectful, disrespecting, disseverments, dissymmetries, endometrioses, endometriosis, endoparasites, interdiffuses, methysergides, misadventures, misregistered, pedestrianism, predesignates, predestinates, predigestions, presidentship, pteridosperms, reconditeness, redistributes, reductiveness, reestablished, resynthesized, retirednesses, semiaridities, semidiameters, semisedentary, serendipities, serendipitous, stipendiaries, straightedges, threadinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EDITRESS


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

45 44 49 54 52 45 53 53

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)

01000101 01000100 01001001 01010100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#68 &#73 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0044 0049 0054 0052 0045 0053 0053

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

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

3938435452395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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