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GENETTE

Definitions: GENETTE

GENETTE

Noun

1. The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.

2. One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"GENETTE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born".

 

Crosswords: GENETTE

Non-English Usage: "GENETTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (genet), Italian (genet).

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Usage Frequency: GENETTE

"GENETTE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "GENETTE" is used about 19 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 (proper)94.74%1882,615
Noun (singular)5.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%19N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: GENETTE

"GENETTE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "GENETTE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
EugeneMaleEnglishN/A
GeneMaleEnglishEugene
GenetteFemaleEnglishGene
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GENETTE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

genette

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GENETTE

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

Swedish

  

Gintkatt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Misk Kedisi (civet, civet cat, genet, zibet, zibeth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GENETTE

Derivations

Words beginning with "GENETTE": genettes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: GENETTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-n-t-t"

-2 letters: genet, tenet, tenge.

-3 letters: gene, gent, nett, teen, tent.

-4 letters: eng, gee, gen, get, nee, net, tee, teg, ten, tet.

-5 letters: en, et, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: genettes.

 

+2 letters: detergent, teetering.

 

+3 letters: detergents, eighteenth, eyeletting, genteelest.

 

+4 letters: eighteenths, enfettering, metagenetic, reintegrate, relettering, renegotiate, retightened.

 

+5 letters: entanglement, estrangement, exenterating, interrogatee, intersegment, magnetometer, petrogenetic, redintegrate, reintegrated, reintegrates, renegotiated, renegotiates, restrengthen, revegetating, revegetation, snaggleteeth, strengthened, strengthener, telemetering, togetherness, witenagemote.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GENETTE


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

47 45 4E 45 54 54 45

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)

01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0045 0054 0054 0045

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

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

41394839545439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Derived from
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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