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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lynch-pin (Anglo-Saxon, lynis, an axle), whence club. (Qy. lynch-law.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "LYNCH-PIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LYNCH-PIN" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lynchpin. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-n-n-p-y" | |
-2 letters: hypnic, phylic. | |
-3 letters: hinny, lynch, pinch, pinny. | |
-4 letters: chin, chip, clip, inch, inly, lich, linn, liny, pily, piny, pyic, pyin. | |
-5 letters: chi, hic, hin, hip, hyp, ich, icy, inn, lin, lip, nil, nip, phi, pic, pin, ply, yin, yip. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-n-n-p-y" | |
+1 letter: lynchpins. | |
+3 letters: nonphysical. | |
+5 letters: phencyclidine. | |
| 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)4C 59 4E 43 48 2D 50 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01011001 01001110 01000011 01001000 00101101 01010000 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L Y N C H - P I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0059 004E 0043 0048 002D 0050 0049 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)465948374215504348 |
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