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EYE-SPOT

Definition: EYE-SPOT

EYE-SPOT

Noun

1. An eyelike spot of color.

2. A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Usage Frequency: EYE-SPOT

"EYE-SPOT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EYE-SPOT" is used about 7 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%7133,076

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

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Anagrams: EYE-SPOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eyespot, peyotes.

Words within the letters "e-e-o-p-s-t-y"

-1 letter: peyote, tepoys, topees.

-2 letters: estop, pesto, pesty, poesy, poets, potsy, seepy, sepoy, steep, stope, tepoy, topee, topes, tyees, types, typos.

-3 letters: epos, espy, eyes, opes, opts, oyes, pees, peso, pest, pets, poet, pose, post, posy, pots, pyes, seep, sept, spot, step, stey, stop, stye, tees, toes, tope, tops, toys, tyee, tyes, type, typo.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-o-p-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: ecotypes, eyespots, neotypes, serotype.

 

+2 letters: cerotypes, eyepoints, genotypes, geophytes, mesophyte, neophytes, polyester, proselyte, serotypes, stenotype.

 

+3 letters: endophytes, ferrotypes, hemoptyses, hypotenuse, hypotheses, hypsometer, lectotypes, mesophytes, phenotypes, polyesters, polytenies, polythenes, proselyted, proselytes, pyrometers, stenotyped, stenotypes, stereotype, stereotypy, xerophytes.

 

+4 letters: deployments, employments, hepatocytes, heterospory, hypocenters, hypotensive, hypotenuses, hypothenuse, hypothesize, hypsometers, persecutory, plenteously, polychaetes, polystyrene, proselytise, proselytize, proteolyses, pycnometers, pyrometries, pyroxenites, pythonesses, splenectomy, stenotypies, stereophony, stereoscopy, stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes, stereotypic, terpolymers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EYE-SPOT


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

45 59 45 2D 53 50 4F 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011001 01000101 00101101 01010011 01010000 01001111 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

E Y E - S P O T

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0059 0045 002D 0053 0050 004F 0054

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

3959391553504954

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