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Definition: Houdini |
HoudiniNoun1. United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HoudiniSynonyms: Erik Weisz (n), Harry Houdini (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Houdini |
| English words defined with "Houdini": Harry Houdini. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Houdini": honoring Houdini. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Houdini (1953) Young Harry Houdini (1987) The Great Houdini (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Houdini swims river in scene from "The man from beyond". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Houdini exposes psychic fraud. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Special starring record engagement of the world's famous jail breaker, Houdini the only and original handcuff king. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Houdini in The master mystery a super-serial in fifteen episodes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Challenge to Houdini, Regent Theatre, Salford. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Harry Houdini, king of cards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Master mystifier, Houdini the greatest necromancer of the age - perhaps of all times--The literary digest. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Houdini, nothing on earth can hold Houdini! Fred Ray & Co. in an intensely funny "Roman travesty" .... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Houdini appears at the Empire Theatre, every evening this week. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stone walls and chains do not make a prison --- for Houdini. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Houdini" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Houdini" is used about 16 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) | 62.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Houdini": Harry Houdini. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Houdini" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hodins, Houcine, houdinis, houldin, Moudiki, Oudinot, Roudin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i-i-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: hound, iodin. | |
-3 letters: hind, nidi, nodi, undo. | |
-4 letters: din, don, duh, dui, dun, duo, hid, hin, hod, hon, hun, ion, nod, noh, oud, udo. | |
-5 letters: do, hi, ho, id, in, no, nu, od, oh, on, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i-i-n-o-u" | |
+3 letters: outchiding. | |
+5 letters: hemodilution, quadriphonic, unlikelihood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 75 64 69 6E 69 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- ..- -.. .. -. .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110101 01100100 01101001 01101110 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o u d i n i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0075 0064 0069 006E 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42818770758075 |
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