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Definition: MALM |
MALMNoun1. Alt. of Malmbrick |
Date "MALM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Crosswords: MALM |
| Non-English Usage: "MALM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (malm), Norwegian (mineral), Romanian (malm), Swedish (ore, rock). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bröderna Malm (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "MALM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "MALM" is used about 4 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MALM" 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 |
| Malm | Last name | 1,000 | 12,009 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
malm | 69 |
luggage malm | 13 |
company malm | 12 |
fireplace malm | 7 |
hotel malm | 7 |
ikea malm | 4 |
aviation malm | 3 |
davis malm | 2 |
karta malm | 2 |
jeff malm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MALM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | малм, бял варовик. (various references) | |
Danish | malm (brood, gangue, matrix, ore). (various references) | |
Dutch | malm. (various references) | |
French | malm (sous-système jurassique). (various references) | |
German | Malm. (various references) | |
Hungarian | malm. (various references) | |
Italian | malm (sottoperiodo). (various references) | |
Manx | creg kelkagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | almmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | marga (bog line, loam, loamy, marl), malva (geranium, mallow, mauve, rose geranium, storksbill), greda (chalk, clay, loam, soapstone). (various references) | |
Romanian | malm. (various references) | |
Russian | мергель (marl), мальм. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | meka krečnjačka ilovača. (various references) | |
Swedish | lös kalksten. (various references) | |
Turkish | yumuşak kireçtaşı, kireçli balçık. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MALM": malmier, malmiest, malms, malmsey, malmseys, malmy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MALM" (pronounced mÄ"m) |
| 3 | m Ä" m | Mom. |
| 2 | -Ä" m | aplomb, balm, becalm, bomb, calm, Dom, embalm, Halm, Nom, palm, pogrom, prom, rom, salaam, som, Tom, Yom. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-m" | |
-1 letter: lam. | |
-2 letters: al, am, la, ma, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-m" | |
+1 letter: lemma, malms, malmy. | |
+2 letters: amylum, clammy, embalm, gimmal, hammal, imbalm, lammed, lemmas, mamluk, mammal. | |
+3 letters: almemar, almsman, almsmen, amalgam, ammonal, amylums, clammed, clammer, dilemma, embalms, flammed, gimmals, hammals, hammily, imbalms, immoral, lamming, lemmata, mailman, mailmen, malmier, malmsey, mamluks, mammals, maximal, melamed, melisma, miasmal, milkman, milldam, mimical, minimal, mohalim, myeloma, slammed, slammer, stammel, trammel. | |
+4 letters: aglimmer, alarmism, almemars, aluminum, amalgams, ammonals, analemma, camomile, cimbalom, clammers, clammier, clammily, clamming, clamworm, communal, cymbalom, dilemmas, dimmable, embalmed, embalmer, familism, flamming, flimflam, helmsman, hummable, imbalmed, imbalmer, immolate, immortal, lymphoma, mailbomb, malamute, malaroma, malemiut, malemute, malmiest, malmseys, mamaliga, mameluke, mammilla, maximals, mealtime, mealworm, melamdim, melamine, melanism, melanoma, melismas, memorial, milkmaid, milldams, minimals, misclaim, monomial, moralism, myelomas, nummular, slammers, slamming, smarmily, stammels, summable, summital, trammels. | |
+5 letters: alarmisms, aluminium, aluminums, amoralism, analemmas, animalism, camomiles, chamomile, cimbaloms, clammiest, clamworms, commensal, committal, cymbaloms, embalmers, embalming, familisms, filmmaker, flammable, flimflams, formalism, imbalmers, imbalming, immolated, immolates, immolator, immorally, immortals, immovable, immovably, immutable, immutably, lumberman, lymphomas, maelstrom, mailbombs, malamutes, malaromas, malemiuts, malemutes, malformed, mamaligas, mamelukes, mammalian, mammalogy, mammillae, marmalade, marmoreal, matambala, mausoleum, maximally, mealtimes, mealworms, melamines, melanisms, melanomas, melismata, melodrama, memorable, memorably, memorials, mentalism, metalmark, metaxylem, middleman, milkmaids, milligram, minimally, misclaims, monomials, moralisms, mullahism, multiatom, mutualism, myelomata, oriflamme, paramylum, semimetal, summarily, swimmable, talmudism, trammeled, ultimatum. | |
| 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)4D 41 4C 4D |
| 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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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01001100 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A L M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 004C 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47354647 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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