LEAPT

Definition: LEAPT

LEAPT

1. Of Leap

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LEAPT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: LEAPT

English words defined with "LEAPT": bound, burst forth ♦ jump ♦ leap, leap out ♦ rush out ♦ sally out, spring. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LEAPT": renown. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I leapt to Saki's face, biting and clawing, but he threw me to the floor and took one swipe with his Katana, slicing my ear. Then he was gone, and I was alone. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

I then leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, or Hull. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

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

Author	Quotation
William Blake	My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The annual turnover generated by the franchise sector has leapt an average 83% year-on-year since 1994, contributing R47.5bn/$7.5bn to the economy last year. In addition, sales from franchises represented 12% of private consumption expenditure. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear. Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! W.J. Candleton
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	The airlines leapt onto the Federal bailout bandwagon like a cross-dressing hunter on a wounded mink.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"LEAPT" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 76.91% of the time. "LEAPT" is used about 472 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	76.91%	363	14,875
Lexical Verb (past participle)	23.09%	109	31,132
Total	100.00%	472	N/A

Language		Translations for "LEAPT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏قفز (bound, flier, gambol, glove, hop, jump, jump out, leap, leapfrog, leaping, lope, pop, skip, spring, start up, vault). (various references)

Chinese		飞跃 (leap, Leaped, leaping). (various references)

Czech		min.èas i příè.min. od leap. (various references)

French		saut (leap, leaping). (various references)

German		gesprungen (atrip, aweigh, bounced, gamboled, jumped, leaped, skipped, split, that has started). (various references)

Greek		αόρ. του leap. (various references)

Hungarian		ugrott. (various references)

Korean		비약하�" (Leaped). (various references)

Pig Latin		eaptlay

Romanian		trecut şi participiu trecut de la leap. (various references)

Russian		прыгать (cavort, cut a caper, cut capers, gambol, hop, jump, jumped, leap, leapfrog, sprang, spring, sprung). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proš. vreme i particip od leap. (various references)

Spanish		saltado (dived, pooping, skip, springing, taken), pret y pp de leap, brincado, bañado. (various references)

Vietnamese		nhảy vọt (leap). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "LEAPT": beleapt, outleapt, overleapt, upleapt. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"LEAPT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elat, gleap, laat, laet, lapet, lapt, leaft, leah, leapeth, leapy, learp, Leatg, leath, Lecat, Leeettt, leet, Legaspi, Legazpi, leidt, leip, leit, lept, Lesapt, liat, Lopata, Olepasto, sleapt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "LEAPT" (pronounced le"pt or lē"pt)
4	l e" p t	leaped, overslept, slept.
3	-e" p t	accept, adept, crept, except, inept, intercept, kept, prepped, Sept, stepped, swept, wept.
3	-ē" p t	heaped, reaped, seeped, steeped.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-t"
	-1 letter: late, leap, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tale, tape, teal, tela, tepa.
	-2 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel.
	-3 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, pa, pe, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-t"
	+1 letter: aplite, caplet, lappet, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelota, petals, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals.
	+2 letters: adeptly, amplest, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apostle, apteral, beleapt, capelet, caplets, chaplet, ectypal, epaulet, explant, fleapit, haplite, heeltap, lappets, outleap, palates, paletot, palette, paliest, pallets, palmate, palpate, palters, pantile, partlet, pastels, patella, peartly, pelotas, peltast, peltate, penalty, persalt, petaled, petrale, peytral, pileate, placate, placets, placket, plaited, plaiter, planate, planets, planted, planter, plaster, platane, plateau, platens, platers, platier, platies, platted, platter, playlet, pleated, pleater, plectra, plicate, plumate, polecat, polenta, potable, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, pulsate, replant, replate, spatzle, stapled, stapler, staples, tadpole, taliped, talipes, tapetal, taphole, templar, trample, typable, upleapt.
	+3 letters: allotype, alphabet, antelope, antipole, apholate, apostles, baldpate, bedplate, calotype, calypter, capelets, chaplets, clodpate, clypeate, compleat, conepatl, copulate, cupulate, depilate, dipteral, eggplant, elephant, endplate, enthalpy, epaulets, epiblast, eucalypt, explants, fleapits, gantlope, haplites, heeltaps, helpmate, interlap, lakeport, lapidate, lappeted, livetrap, malapert, oppilate, outleaps, outleapt, palatine, palestra, paletots, palettes, pallette, palliate, palliest, palmated, palmette, palmetto, palmiest, palpated, palpates, paltered, palterer, paltrier, pamphlet, panatela, panelist, panetela, pantiled, pantiles, pantofle, parental, parietal, parlante, partible, particle, partlets, pastille, pastless, patellae, patellar, patellas, patently, paternal, pathless, patulent, pearlite, pectoral, peculate, pedately, pedestal, pelletal, peltasts, penality, pentacle, pentanol, persalts, petaline, petalled, petalody, petaloid, petalous, petiolar, petrales, petrosal, petulant, peytrals, pieplant, pilaster, pileated, pilotage, pitiable, placated, placater, placates, placenta, plackets, plainest, plaister, plaiters, planchet, plangent, plankter, planters, plantlet, plasters, plastery, platanes, plateaus, plateaux, plateful, platelet, platiest, platters, playdate, playlets, playmate, playtime, pleasant, pleaters, pleating, plethora, plicated, plottage, poetical, polecats, polentas, polestar, populate, portable, portaled, potables, potlache, praelect, prattled, prattler, prattles, preadult, preallot, prelates, prelatic, prenatal, preplant, pretrial, psalters, psaltery, pterylae, pubertal, pulsated, pulsates, replants, replated, replates, reptilia, sceptral, septical, spaetzle, spatzles, spectral, splatted, splatter, spoliate, sprattle, stapelia, staplers, sulphate, tabletop, tadpoles, tailpipe, talipeds, tapeless, tapelike, tapeline, tapholes, telepath, teleplay, templars, template, temporal, tieclasp, tinplate, tippable, toeplate, trampled, trampler, tramples, traplike, trapline, tripedal, triplane, typeable.
	+4 letters: acropetal, adaptable, adoptable, afterclap, allotrope, allotypes, alphabets, amplitude, analeptic, antelopes, antipoles, antisleep, apetalies, apetalous, apholates, apiculate, appellant, appellate, applecart, aspectual, asphalted, atemporal, baldpates, basipetal, bedplates, bookplate, caliphate, calotypes, calypters, capablest, catalepsy, cataplexy, catchpole, chapleted, clodpates, conepatls, copulated, copulates, depilated, depilates, diplomate, doorplate, drawplate, duplicate, eclamptic, ectoplasm, eggplants, elephants, endplates, epaulette, epiblasts, epilation, epitaxial, epithelia, eucalypti, eucalypts, exculpate, explanted, explicate, faceplate, fishplate, flappiest, gantelope, gantlopes, halophyte, haplotype, helpmates, implanted, implanter, implicate, imputable, inculpate, interlaps, interplay, lakeports, lapidated, lapidates, lapstrake, leadplant, livetraps, malaperts, multipage, nameplate, operantly, oppilated, oppilates, outleaped, outplayed, overleapt, overplant, paillette, painterly, palaestra, palatable, palatines, palestrae, palestras, palletise, palletize, pallettes, palliated, palliates, palmately, palmettes, palmettos, palmitate, palpitate, palterers, paltering, paltriest, pamphlets, panatelas, panelists, panetelas, pantalets, pantalone, pantofles, papillate, papillote, parietals, particles, pastelist, pastilles, pastorale, patiently, patrolled, patroller, patrolmen, pearliest, pearlites, pearlitic, peccantly, pectorals, peculated, peculates, peculator, pedestals, penalties, pentacles, pentangle, pentanols, penultima, percolate, perinatal, periplast, perpetual, petallike, petechial, petiolate, petulance, petulancy, phenolate, philately, pieplants, pigtailed, pilasters, pilotages, pinnately, pivotable, pixilated, placaters, placative, placement, placentae, placental, placentas, plaintext, plaintive, plaisters, planchets, planetary, planetoid, plankters, plantable, plantlets, plantlike, plantsmen, plashiest, plastered, plasterer, plateaued, platefuls, platelets, platelike, platesful, platinize, platitude, platooned, playacted, playdates, playmates, playtimes, pleatless, plethoras, plottages, polestars, pollinate, polywater, popliteal, populated, populates, portables, postulate, potential, potlaches, praelects, prattlers, preallots, prebattle, precoital, prelature, preputial, pretravel, pretrials, prevalent, printable, privately, psalteria, psaltries, pullulate, pulmonate, pulsatile, reimplant, repellant, replanted, replaster, replating, replicate, reptilian, reputable, reputably, saltpeter, sapiently, saprolite, scapolite, sceptical, skeptical, soleplate, spaetzles, spatulate, specialty, spectacle, speculate, splatters, splayfeet, spoliated, spoliates, sporulate, spottable, sprattled, sprattles, stampless, stapedial, stapelias, stipulate, stoppable, strapless, sulphated, sulphates, sympetaly, tabletops, tailpiece, tailpipes, tailplane, tapelines, teacupful, telegraph, telepaths, telepathy, teleplays, telophase, templates, temporals, temptable, tieclasps, tinplates, toeplates, tramplers, traplines, triplanes, ultrapure, unplaited.
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