Hitchings

Definition: Hitchings

Hitchings

Noun

1. United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (born in 1905).

Synonym: Hitchings

Synonym: George Herbert Hitchings (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hitchings

English words defined with "Hitchings": George Herbert Hitchings. (references)

"Hitchings" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Hitchings" is used about 12 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)	83.33%	10	111,207
Noun (plural)	16.67%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Hitchings" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Hitchings	Last name	400	20,833
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "Hitchings": George Herbert Hitchings. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-h-h-i-i-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: hitching, itchings.
	-2 letters: chitins, histing, insight, itching.
	-3 letters: chints, chitin, citing, hights, icings, nights, siting, snitch, thighs, things.
	-4 letters: chins, chits, highs, hight, hints, hitch, icing, intis, nighs, night, sight, stich, sting, thigh, thing, thins, tings.
	-5 letters: chin, chis, chit, cigs, cist, ghis, gins, gist, gits, high, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, ichs, inch, inti.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-h-h-i-i-n-s-t"
	+3 letters: hemstitching.
	+4 letters: whipstitching.
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