Makeweight

Definitions: Makeweight

Makeweight

Noun

1. Anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights".

2. A weight added to the scale to reach a required weight.

Date "makeweight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Synonym: Makeweight

Synonym: filler (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Makeweight

Etymologies containing "makeweight": mantissa. (references)

"Makeweight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Makeweight" 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 (singular)	100%	16	87,710

Language		Translations for "makeweight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtesë (accretion, addendum, additive, appendage, appendix, bonus, extension, extra, increment, insert, intercalation, plus, refill, supplement, weighting), peshë plotësuese. (various references)

Finnish		täytepaino, täyte (dressing, filler, fillet, filling, padding, stuffing). (various references)

Hebrew		� ופך (garnet, turquoise). (various references)

Pig Latin		akeweightmay.(various references)

Portuguese		maquiador, pessoa insignificante (insect bite, jack-towel, nobody, nought, shrimp, whippersnapper), contrapeso (balance, balance weight, ballast weights, ballasting, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equipoise, plummet, wheel weight). (various references)

Russian		довесок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dodatak (add, addendum, addition, additive, adjunct, adulterant, affix, annex, appendage, appendix, apposition, appurtenance, context, extra, insert, overplus, plus, supplement). (various references)

Spanish		tapagujeros, suplente (alternate, deputy, replacement, reserve, stand in, substitute, surrogate, understudy), contrapeso (balance weight, counterbalance, counterbalance weight, counterpoise, counterweight, setoff). (various references)

Swedish		fyllnadsgods (padding). (various references)

Thai		คนหรือสิ่งไม่สำคัญ. (various references)

Turkish		ufak ilave, fasulyeden oyuncu, önemsiz şey (bagatelle, bauble, cypher, iota, knickknack, mickey mouse, molehill, nicknack, no big deal, picayune, rush, small beer, stiver, straw, toy, trifle, tuppence, twopence, unessential, unimportant thing). (various references)

Vietnamese		vật thêm v� o cho nhiều, vật bù v� o cho cân đối trọng người điền trống, người thêm v� o cho đông. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "makeweight": makeweights. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Makeweight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: makaweli. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-k-m-t-w"
	-3 letters: megahit.
	-4 letters: aweigh, gamete, hakeem, hawkie, metage, weight.
	-5 letters: eight, hakim, image, kithe, might, tawie, theme, tweak, weigh, wheat, white, wight, withe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-k-m-t-w"
	+1 letter: makeweights.
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