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Definitions: LISS |
LISSNoun1. Release; remission; ease; relief. Transitive verb1. To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. |
Crosswords: LISS |
| Non-English Usage: "LISS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (Lizzie). |
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Movie/TV Titles | El Liss el sharif (1954) | |
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| "LISS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "LISS" is used about 40 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) | 97.5% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LISS" 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 |
| Liss | Last name | 1,000 | 11,192 |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
liss | 26 |
johann liss | 12 |
laurie liss | 10 |
ard liss | 6 |
david liss | 6 |
liss wiley | 5 |
liss vicky | 4 |
ebay laurie liss | 4 |
m liss | 3 |
kingdom liss united | 3 |
bill liss | 3 |
ericsson liss | 2 |
liss plate | 2 |
athletic liss | 2 |
liss steve | 2 |
liss may | 2 |
inc liss wiley | 2 |
howard liss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LISS": lissom, lissome, lissomely, lissomeness, lissomenesses, lissomly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LISS": bliss. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LISS": blissed, blisses, blissful, blissfully, blissfulness, blissfulnesses, blissing, coulisse, coulisses, generalissimo, generalissimos, glissade, glissaded, glissader, glissaders, glissades, glissading, glissandi, glissando, glissandos, pelisse, pelisses, plisse, plisses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: lis, sis. | |
-2 letters: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: bliss, isles, lisps, lists, lysis, sails, sials, silds, silks, sills, silos, silts, sisal, slims, slips, slits, soils, sylis. | |
+2 letters: aisles, assail, assoil, basils, dossil, filses, fossil, fusils, islets, istles, lassie, lisles, lissom, lysins, missal, missel, plisse, salmis, shiels, shills, sibyls, sidles, sigils, siglos, silvas, sisals, skills, skirls, slices, slicks, slides, sliest, slimes, slimsy, slings, slinks, slipes, sloids, smiles, snails, solids, spails, speils, spiels, spiles, spills, splits, spoils, stiles, stills, stilts, suslik, swails, swills, swirls. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 53 53 |
| 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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