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Definition: EIGH |
EIGHInterjection1. An exclamation expressing delight. |
Date "EIGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Crosswords: EIGH |
| Non-English Usage: "EIGH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Scottish (a file, ice, nf. g.+e; ice). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "EIGH" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EIGH" is used about 11 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "EIGH": eigh-teenth, eigh-teenth-century. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eigh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | eighay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EIGH": eight, eightball, eightballs, eighteen, eighteens, eighteenth, eighteenths, eightfold, eighth, eighthly, eighths, eighties, eightieth, eightieths, eights, eightvo, eightvos, eighty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EIGH": aweigh, dreigh, heigh, inveigh, neigh, outweigh, overweigh, reweigh, skeigh, skreigh, sleigh, weigh. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EIGH": airfreight, airfreighted, airfreighting, airfreights, bantamweight, bantamweights, counterweight, counterweighted, counterweighting, counterweights, cruiserweight, cruiserweights, deadweight, deadweights, featherweight, featherweights, flyweight, flyweights, freight, freightage, freightages, freighted, freighter, freighters, freighting, freights, heavyweight, heavyweights, height, heighten, heightened, heightening, heightens, heighth, heighths, heights, hundredweight, hundredweights, inveighed, inveigher, inveighers, inveighing, inveighs, lightweight, lightweights, makeweight, makeweights, middleweight, middleweights, neighbor, neighbored, neighborhood, neighborhoods, neighboring, neighborliness, neighborlinesses, neighborly, neighbors, neighbour, neighboured, neighbouring, neighbours, neighed, neighing, neighs, outweighed, outweighing, outweighs, overweighed, overweighing, overweighs, overweight, overweighted, overweighting, overweights, paperweight, paperweights, pennyweight, pennyweights, reweighed, reweighing, reweighs, skreighed, skreighing, skreighs, sleighed, sleigher, sleighers, sleighing, sleighs, sleight, sleights, superheavyweight, superheavyweights, ultralightweight, underweight, underweights, unweight, unweighted, unweighting, unweights, weighable, weighed, weigher, weighers, weighing, weighman, weighmen, weighs, weight, weighted, weighter, weighters, weightier, weightiest, weightily, weightiness, weightinesses, weighting, weightless, weightlessly, weightlessness, weightlessnesses, weightlifter, weightlifters, weightlifting, weightliftings, weights, weighty, welterweight, welterweights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "Eigh": Fleigh, Seigh, Sweigh. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i" | |
-1 letter: ghi, gie, hie. | |
-2 letters: eh, he, hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i" | |
+1 letter: eight, gighe, heigh, hinge, neigh, weigh. | |
+2 letters: aweigh, chigoe, dreigh, driegh, eching, eighth, eights, eighty, geisha, haeing, hegari, hegira, height, hewing, hexing, hieing, higgle, higher, hinged, hinger, hinges, hoagie, hoeing, hogtie, neighs, nighed, nigher, sighed, sigher, skeigh, sleigh, weighs, weight, whinge. | |
+3 letters: bedight, bighead, bighted, chewing, chigger, chigoes, choregi, delight, dighted, echoing, eighths, eightvo, english, etching, fighter, freight, gahnite, geishas, ghazies, gherkin, ghillie, ghoulie, girshes, girthed, gothite, greyish, grushie, gushier, hagride, heading, healing, heaping, hearing, heating, heaving, hedgier, hedging, heeding, heeling, heezing, hefting, hegaris, hegiras, heighth, heights, heiling, heiring, helling, helming, helping, helving, hemming, henting, herding, herring, higgled, higgler, higgles, highest, highted, hingers, hoagies, hoglike, hogtied, hogties, hygeist, hygiene, inveigh, leching, lighted, lighten, lighter, megahit, megilph, meshing, neighed, nighest, nightie, ogreish, peching, pishoge, refight, rehinge, relight, resight, reweigh, righted, righter, shewing, shingle, shoeing, sighers, sighted, sighter, skreigh, sleighs, sleight, theming, thighed, tighten, tighter, toughie, unhinge, weighed, weigher, weights, weighty, whinged, whinges. | |
+4 letters: adhering, alighted, atheling, beaching, bedights, behaving, behoving, beknight, belching, benching, berthing, bigheads, blighted, blighter, brighten, brighter, cheating, checking, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cheffing, chevying, chigetai, chiggers, cohering, deashing, delights, dinghies, dogeship, doughier, dreggish, earthing, eighteen, eighthly, eighties, eightvos, epigraph, esophagi, etchings, euchring, exhaling, exhuming, eyesight, fetching, fighters, fleishig, fleshing, flighted, freights, freshing, frighted, frighten, gahnites, galabieh, gharries, gherkins, ghillies, ghostier, ghoulies, gilthead, glitches, gnathite, goethite, gothites, graphite, greenish, grinches, grumphie, gushiest, haggises, hagrides, hangfire, havening, havering, headings, healings, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heckling, hedgepig, hedgiest, heelings, heighten, heighths, heisting, helloing, helpings, hennaing, heritage, herrings, herrying, higglers, highbred, highlife, highness, hireling, histogen, homegirl, homering, honeying, hoveling, hovering, hungrier, hygeists, hygieist, hygienes, hygienic, ingather, inhering, inveighs, knighted, leaching, leashing, leeching, letching, lightens, lighters, lightest, litharge, megahits, megalith, megillah, megilphs, mightier, naething, narghile, nargileh, neighbor, neighing, nighness, nighties, ochering, outweigh, overhigh, peaching, penlight, perching, philabeg, philibeg, pishoges, pishogue, plighted, plighter, prefight, reaching, refights, regolith, rehinged, rehinges, rehiring, relights, resights, retching, reweighs, righters, rightest, righties, scheming, seething, semihigh, sennight, shaggier, sheafing, shealing, shearing, sheaving, shedding, sheening, sheering, sheeting, shelling, shelving, shending, shieling, shigella, shingled, shingler, shingles, shrewing, sighless, sighlike, sighters, sightsee, skreighs, sleighed, sleigher, sleights, slighted, slighter, sphering, sphinges, teaching, teething, teiglach, theurgic, thieving, thirlage, tigerish, tightens, tightest, toughies, unhinged, unhinges, unweight, ushering, weighers, weighing, weighman, weighmen, weighted, weighter, welching, welshing, wenching, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing, whelming, whelping, whetting. | |
+5 letters: achieving, angelfish, anguished, anguishes, antheming, ashlering, athelings, bedighted, beheading, beholding, behooving, behowling, beknights, benighted, berhyming, beshaming, bigheaded, bleaching, blenching, blighters, blighties, bothering, breaching, breathing, breeching, brightens, brightest, busheling, cacheting, chagrined, chasseing, chelating, chigetais, chiseling, ciphering, clenching, coheading, coliphage, coshering, creeshing, cyphering, deadlight, dehiscing, dehorning, dehorting, delighted, delighter, detaching, discharge, dithering, dogeships, dogfishes, doughiest, doughlike, doughtier, drenching, earthling, eightball, eighteens, eightfold, eightieth, encashing, enchasing, englished, englishes, enhaloing, enhancing, enlighten, enmeshing, enriching, enthusing, epigraphs, epigraphy, epiphragm, eschewing, exhorting, eyebright, eyesights, fathering, firefight, firelight, fleeching, flenching, fleshings, fletching, flightier, flyweight, foresight, freighted, freighter, frenching, frightens, galabiehs, garfishes, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gathering, gaucherie, gearshift, gemutlich, ghastlier, gheraoing, ghettoing, ghettoize, ghostiest, ghostlier, ghostlike, gibberish, gigahertz, giltheads, globefish, gnathites, goethites, goosefish, gothicize, graphemic, graphites, grouchier, growthier, grumphies, guilloche, gushiness, hagfishes, hagridden, haltering, hammering, hampering, hangfires, hankering, hanseling, happening, harbinger, hardening, harkening, hastening, haughtier, headlight, hectoring, hedgepigs, hedgingly, heehawing, hegemonic, heightens, helmeting, heralding, heritages, hermitage, heroizing, highflier, highflyer, highlifes, hindering, hirelings, hirseling, histogens, hogfishes, hogtieing, hoidening, hollering, homegirls, hosteling, houseling, hovelling, hoydening, humdinger, hungering, hungriest, hunkering, hygieists, hygienics, hygienist, hyphening, ideograph, immeshing, infighter, ingathers, inmeshing, inveighed, inveigher, judgeship, kashering, koshering, kvetching, lathering, lechering, lengthier, lengthily, lethargic, lichening, lightened, lightener, lightered, lightface, lightless, lightness, lightsome, limelight, litharges, megaliths, megillahs, megilloth, metheglin, mightiest, mischarge, mothering, naethings, narghiles, nargilehs, naughtier, neighbors, neighbour, nightless, nightlife, nightmare, nightside, nighttime, nightwear, oesophagi, outweighs, overlight, overnight, oversight, overweigh, pemphigus, penlights, perishing, philabegs, philibegs, phlegmier, phoneying, pigfishes, pigheaded, pishogues, pleaching, plighters, pothering, preaching, preflight, prehiring, quenching, rechewing, reechoing, regoliths, rehabbing, rehanging, rehashing, rehearing, reheating, reheeling, rehemming, rehinging, rehousing, relighted, relishing, reshaping, reshaving, reshingle, reshining, reshoeing, reshowing, resighted, retighten, rewashing, reweighed, richening, righteous, rightness, rightsize, safelight, scraighed, searching, sennights, serigraph, shaggiest, shaveling, shealings, shearings, shearling, sheathing, sheetings, shelvings, shielding, shielings, shigellae, shigellas, shinglers, shivering, shlepping, shoveling, showering, shredding, shrieking, shrieving, shrinkage, sidelight, sightless, sightlier, sightseen, sightseer, sightsees, sketching, skreighed, sleighers, sleighing, sleuthing, slightest, sloughier, something, spaghetti, syphering, teachings, teethings, tethering, theogonic, theologic, theurgies, theurgist, thighbone, thingness, thirlages, threading, threaping, threating, threeping, threshing, tightened, tightener, tightness, tightrope, tightwire, tochering, trenching, unheeding, unhelming, unmeshing, unsighted, unweights, upheaping, upheaving, uplighted, uprighted, vetchling, weeknight, weighable, weighters, weightier, weightily, weighting, wheedling, wheelings, wheepling, wherrying, whingeing, whitening, whitewing, withering, wreathing, wrenching, wuthering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 49 47 48 |
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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)01000101 01001001 01000111 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E I G H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0049 0047 0048 |
| 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)39434142 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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