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Definition: Glottis |
GlottisNoun1. The vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Glottis \Glot"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression from the tongue. See Gloss an explanatory remark.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The vocal apparatus of the larynx, consisting of the true vocal cords (plica vocalis) and the opening between them (rima glottidis). (references) |
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Crosswords: Glottis |
| English words defined with "glottis": glottal, glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop, Glottidean ♦ hiccough, hiccup ♦ inferior vocal cord, inferior vocal fold ♦ Larypgismus ♦ singultus, Subglottic, Supraglotic ♦ true vocal cord, true vocal fold. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glottis": Laryngeal Neoplasms ♦ stage I laryngeal cancer, stage II laryngeal cancer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glottis": Epiglottis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glottis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (glottis), Dutch (glottis), German (glottis). |
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| "Glottis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glottis" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glottis": false glottis ♦ glottis spuria ♦ glottis vera ♦ true glottis. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glottis | 22 |
frog glottis | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glottis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الزردمة المزمار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глотис. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嗓门. (various references) | |
Czech | štìrbina mezi hlasivkami. (various references) | |
Danish | glottis. (various references) | |
Dutch | glottis. (various references) | |
Farsi | فاصله بین تارهای صوتی , چاکنای , دهانه حنجره . (various references) | |
French | glotte. (various references) | |
German | stimmritze, glottis. (various references) | |
Greek | γλωττίδα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hangrés (hiatus). (various references) | |
Indonesian | glotis, celah suara. (various references) | |
Italian | glottide. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 声門 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいもん (influential family, main entrance, main gate, the man in power, voice print, written oath). (various references) | |
Korean | 성문. (various references) | |
Manx | sluggid (weasand, whirlpool). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ottisglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glote. (various references) | |
Romanian | glotã. (various references) | |
Russian | голосовая щель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glotis. (various references) | |
Spanish | glotis. (various references) | |
Turkish | glotis, nefes borusu ağzı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | голосова щілина. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glottis": glottises. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glottis": epiglottis, proglottis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glottis": epiglottises, polyglottism, polyglottisms. (additional references) | |
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"Glottis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galeotti, Galiotti, gloitis, glootis, glotes, glotis, glotiss, glott, Goltix, Gotsis, Gottes, gottis, Gotzis, Gullotti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glottis" (pronounced glÄ"tus) |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: gilts, glost, stilt, tilts, toils, toits. | |
-3 letters: gilt, gist, gits, list, lits, logs, lost, loti, lots, oils, silo, silt, slit, slog, slot, soil, soli, tils, tilt, togs, toil, toit, tost, tots. | |
-4 letters: git, gos, got, its, lis, lit, log, lot, oil, sit, sol, sot, til, tis, tog, tot. | |
-5 letters: go, is, it, li, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: slotting. | |
+2 letters: bottlings, glottides, glottises, spotlight, stoplight. | |
+3 letters: cetologist, cytologist, epiglottis, ethologist, fetologist, footlights, gastrolith, ghostliest, gluttonies, litigators, nostalgist, ontologist, outlasting, postflight, proglottis, spotlights, stoplights, topologist, totalising, typologist. | |
+4 letters: anthologist, cetologists, cytologists, egotistical, ethnologist, ethologists, etymologist, fetologists, gastroliths, gestational, graptolites, gustatorily, histologist, litigations, metrologist, mythologist, nostalgists, ontologists, osteologist, outglitters, outhustling, pathologist, petrologist, poltergeist, postulating, proglottids, spotlighted, stagflation, stilettoing, subtotaling, tautologies, teleologist, tetralogies, topologists, torchlights, tribologist, typologists. | |
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