Haint

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Haint, Taint. Haint is used indiscriminately for haven't and hasn't. Taint is used for tisn't. Their use is indicative of an entire lack of culture. Source: Slips of Speech.
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Date "Haint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Crosswords: Haint

Specialty definitions using "Haint": Taint. (references)

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

Welsh (faint, pestilence).

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Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Haint (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Haint (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Haint" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Haint" 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
Lexical Verb (base form)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-i-n-t"
	-1 letter: anti, hant, hint, tain, than, thin.
	-2 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, hat, hin, hit, nah, nit, nth, tan, tin.
	-3 letters: ah, ai, an, at, ha, hi, in, it, na, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-i-n-t"
	+1 letter: canthi, hating, hatpin, shanti, tahini.
	+2 letters: absinth, acanthi, anthill, anthoid, bathing, gahnite, gnathic, habitan, hafting, hairnet, halting, hanting, hasting, hatpins, hatting, heating, hematin, hoatzin, inearth, inhabit, inthral, jacinth, lathing, manihot, shaitan, shantih, shantis, sheitan, sthenia, tahinis, tannish, tarnish, thawing, thiamin, thiazin, unfaith, xanthic, xanthin.
	+3 letters: absinthe, absinths, airthing, anorthic, anthelia, anthelix, anthemia, antherid, anthesis, anthills, anthodia, antihero, antiphon, antiship, anything, aphanite, asthenia, asthenic, astonish, atechnic, atheling, batching, biathlon, catching, catechin, chanties, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chitosan, dianthus, earthing, echinate, ethician, ethnical, faintish, faithing, fanlight, farthing, gahnites, gnathion, gnathite, habitans, habitant, habiting, haematin, hairnets, halation, handiest, handlist, handwrit, haptenic, hatching, haunting, hearting, hematein, hematine, hematins, herniate, hesitant, himation, histamin, hoactzin, hoatzins, horntail, humanist, humanity, hyacinth, inchoate, inearths, ingather, inhabits, inhalant, insheath, inswathe, inthrall, inthrals, isthmian, jacinthe, jacinths, katchina, latching, lathings, loathing, manihots, matching, naething, nightcap, nightjar, patching, perianth, phthalin, pitchman, scathing, shafting, shaitans, shanties, shantihs, sheitans, standish, stashing, sthenias, swathing, tachinid, tankship, teaching, thacking, thanking, thebaine, thespian, thiamine, thiamins, thiazine, thiazins, thinclad, thionate, thrawing, tithonia, tranship, trashing, trichina, unfaiths, watching, whinchat, wrathing, xanthein, xanthine, xanthins, yachting, zenithal.
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