Herakles

Definition: Herakles

Herakles

Noun

1. (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality.

"Herakles" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Hera's glory".

Date "Herakles" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Synonyms: Herakles

Synonyms: Alcides (n), Heracles (n), Hercules (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Herakles (1962)
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Domain	Title
Books	Herakles (reference) Herakles & the Swastika: Greek Volunteers in the German Army (reference) Herakles (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (reference) Herakles and the Sea-Monster in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting (reference) Hesiod: The Work and Days/Theogony/the Shield of Herakles (reference) (more book examples)
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"Herakles" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.32% of the time. "Herakles" is used about 31 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 (proper)	90.32%	28	65,706
Noun (plural)	6.45%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (-s form)	3.23%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	31	N/A

"Herakles" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Hera's glory".

The following table summarizes names related to "Herakles."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Herakles	Male	Greek Mythology	N/A
Hercules	Male	Roman Mythology	Herakles
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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.

Language		Translations for "Herakles"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, healthy, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliotrope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, hellfire, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hemstitch, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, herald, Hercules, Hermes, hernia, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヘラクレス (Hercules). (various references)

Pig Latin		erakleshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-k-l-r-s"
	-1 letter: healers, leakers.
	-2 letters: ashler, haeres, halers, healer, hearse, kasher, lakers, larees, lasher, leaker, leaser, rakees, reales, resale, reseal, sealer, shaker, shekel, slaker.
	-3 letters: akees, arles, asker, earls, easel, erase, eskar, esker, hakes, haler, hales, hares, harks, harls, heals, hears, heels, heres, herls, kales, keels, laker, lakes, lakhs, laree, lares, larks, laser, leaks, lears, lease, leash, leeks, leers, lehrs, rakee, rakes, rales, reals, reeks, reels, rheas, saker, saree, selah, seral, shake, shale, share, shark, sheal, shear, sheer, slake, sleek.
	-4 letters: akee, alee, ales, ares, arks, arse, earl, ears, ease, eels, ekes, elks, else, eras, haes, hake, hale, hare, hark, harl, heal, hear, heel, here, herl, hers, kaes, kale, keas, keel, lake, lakh, lark, lars, lase, lash, leak, lear, leas, leek, leer, lees, lehr, leke, leks, rake, rale, rase, rash, real, reek, reel, rees, resh, rhea, sake, sale, sark, seal, sear, seek, seel, seer, sera, sere, shea, skee.
	-5 letters: ale, als, are, ark, ars, ash, ask, ear, eel, eke, elk, els, era, ere, ers, hae, has, her, hes, kae, kas, kea, lar, las, lea, lee, lek, rah, ras, ree, res, sae, sal, sea, see, sel, ser, sha, she, ska.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-k-l-r-s"
	+1 letter: lakeshore, rakehells, sheldrake.
	+2 letters: lakeshores, sheldrakes.
	+3 letters: leukorrheas, rathskeller, stakeholder.
	+4 letters: blatherskite, halterbreaks, leatherbacks, leathernecks, rathskellers, shellcracker, stakeholders.
	+5 letters: blatherskites, shellcrackers.
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