HELICES

Definition: HELICES

HELICES

Plural

1. Of Helix

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: HELICES

Specialty definitions using "HELICES": Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ♦ Protein Structure, Secondary, Protein Structure, Tertiary. (references)

Etymologies containing "HELICES": Helix. (references)

"HELICES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.10% of the time. "HELICES" is used about 69 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 (plural)	97.1%	67	40,952
Lexical Verb (-s form)	2.9%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	69	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "HELICES": a-helices.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "HELICES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		螺旋 (Helix, Helixes, spiral). (various references)

Hungarian		spirálvonal (helix), csigavonal (helix, scroll, snail, spiral, volute), csavarvonal (helix). (various references)

Pig Latin		eliceshay

Spanish		Hélice (airscrew, blade, control edge, fan blade, helical groove, helix, loading spiral, loading vane, prop, propeller, screw, scroll, spiral, vane). (various references)

Turkish		helisler, helezonlar, sarmal eğriler, salyangozlar, sümüklüböcekler. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "HELICES": anthelices, superhelices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HELICES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Halaicu, Halaucest, Hawlicek, Heikes, helic, helicase, Helicat, Helice, helicies, helico, helijet, Heyliger, hilciaz, Rheticus, th'likes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lichees.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-s"
	-1 letter: chiels, chiles, chisel, leches, lichee, liches, seiche.
	-2 letters: ceils, chiel, chile, eches, heels, heils, leech, shiel, slice.
	-3 letters: cees, ceil, cels, chis, eche, eels, elhi, else, heel, heil, hies, ices, ichs, isle, lech, lees, leis, lice, lich, lies, seel, sice.
	-4 letters: cee, cel, chi, cis, eel, els, hes, hic, hie, his, ice, ich, lee, lei, lie, lis, sec, see, sei, sel, she, sic.
	-5 letters: eh, el, es, he, hi, is, li, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-s"
	+1 letter: cheesily, chiseled, chiseler, schliere, vehicles.
	+2 letters: alchemies, chelipeds, chenilles, chiselers, chiselled, chiseller, clerihews, cleverish, clipsheet, leachiest, lecheries, scheelite, schlemiel, schlieren.
	+3 letters: alchemizes, anthelices, chevaliers, chisellers, clipsheets, cohesively, heelpieces, helicities, hemicycles, scheelites, schlemiels, squelchier.
	+4 letters: aesthetical, cephalexins, chainwheels, chandeliers, chandleries, channelizes, chatelaines, cherishable, chillnesses, cholesteric, clomiphenes, clothesline, entelechies, ethicalness, hectoliters, helicopters, hemiacetals, hemiplegics, lecithinase, lectureship, manchineels, psychedelia, psychedelic, squelchiest, wheelchairs.
	+5 letters: archeologies, beseechingly, bleacherites, candlefishes, chalcedonies, chanticleers, chesterfield, chillinesses, clotheslined, clotheslines, cohesionless, cuttlefishes, encephalitis, ethicalities, hemerocallis, heteroclites, hexadecimals, lecithinases, lectureships, melancholies, mischanneled, nucleophiles, oligochaetes, phylacteries, pitchblendes, psychedelias, psychedelics, rescheduling, sepulchering, stepchildren, superhelical, superhelices, technologies, technophiles, thermoclines.
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