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Larousse

Definition: Larousse

Larousse

Noun

1. French lexicographer (1817-1875).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Larousse

Synonyms: Pierre Athanase Larousse (n), Pierre Larousse (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Larousse

English words defined with "Larousse": Pierre Athanase Larousse, Pierre Larousse. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Larousse

DomainTitle

Books

  • Larousse Concise French/English English/French Dictionary (reference)

  • Larousse of Gastronomy (reference)

  • Larousse Gramatica De LA Lengua Espanola Relgas Y Ejercicios/Grammer for Spanish Speakers (reference)

  • Grote Nederlandse Larousse encyclopedie in vijfentwintig delen (reference)

  • Larousse Dictionnaire de la Peinture Flamande et Hollandaise du Moyen Age a nos Jours (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Larousse

"Larousse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Larousse" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)50%3202,518
Noun (singular)50%3202,518
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Larousse

The following table summarizes the usage of "Larousse" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LarousseLast name10082,274
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Larousse

Expressions using "Larousse": Pierre Athanase Larousse Pierre Larousse. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Larousse

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

larousse

169

diccionario larousse

38

dictionnaire larousse

37

larousse gastronomique

16

encyclopedia larousse

14

petit larousse

12

le petit larousse

8

larousse dictionary

7

bibliorom larousse

5

dictionaire larousse

4

dictionary english french larousse

3

edition larousse

3

2003 larousse

2

larousse online

2

editora larousse

2

larousse medical

2

english french larousse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Larousse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: arouses, lassoer, oarless, saurels, serosal.

-2 letters: arouse, assure, lasers, lessor, losers, louses, ousels, rassle, rouses, saurel, serosa, serous, soleus, sorels, urases.

-3 letters: aloes, arles, arose, arses, aures, earls, euros, lares, laser, lases, lasso, lears, loess, lores, loser, loses, lours, louse, lures, oases, orals, orles, ousel, rales, rases, reals, roles, roses, roues, rouse, rules, ruses, sales, saros, sauls, seals, sears, seral, sloes, slues, slurs, soars, solar, soles, solus, soras, sorel, sores, sorus, souls, sours, souse, suers, sural, suras, urase, ureal, ureas, ursae, users.

-4 letters: aero, ales, aloe, also, ares, arse, earl, ears, eras, eros, euro, lars, lase, lass, lear, leas, less, lore, lose, loss, lour, lues, lure, oars, olea, oles, oral, ores, orle, osar, oses, ossa, ours, rale, rase, real, roes, role, rose, roue, rues, rule, ruse, sale, sals, saul, seal, sear, seas, sels, sera, sers, sloe, slue, slur, soar, sola, sole, sols, sora, sore, soul, sour, sous, suer, sues, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user, uses.

-5 letters: ale, als, are, ars, ass, ear, eau, els, era, ers, ess, lar, las, lea, leu, oar, oes, ole, ora, ore, ors, ose, our, ras, res, roe, rue, sae, sal, sau, sea, sel, ser, sol, sos, sou, sue, use.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: caroluses, carousels.

 

+2 letters: carrousels, granuloses, housecarls, plesiosaur, rearousals, slanderous, somersault, sporulates.

 

+3 letters: glamourless, horselaughs, hourglasses, journaleses, outsparkles, overslaughs, pelycosaurs, plesiosaurs, popularises, somersaults, speculators, staurolites, sugarloaves, superalloys, uncrossable.

 

+4 letters: allosauruses, barrelhouses, emasculators, grossularite, leprosariums, loudspeakers, nonreusables, overarousals, prothalluses, sacrilegious, salutatories, salutiferous, slanderously, slaughterous, somersaulted, superposable, ultraserious, urolithiases.

 

+5 letters: clamorousness, counterblasts, garrulousness, gesticulators, glamorousness, grossularites, heterosexuals, hilariousness, hyperarousals, laboriousness, marvelousness, microcapsules, nonuniversals, pasqueflowers, proconsulates, ribonucleases, sensorineural, shuffleboards, somatopleures, somersaulting, southeasterly, sulfonylureas, supercolossal, superloyalist, superovulates, superpersonal, voluntariness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Larousse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 72 6F 75 73 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    .-.    ---    ..-    ...    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0072 006F 0075 0073 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667848187858571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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