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Definitions: MELISMA |
MELISMANoun1. A grace or embellishment. 2. A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation. |
Etymology: Melisma \Me*lis"ma\, noun; plural Melismata. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression a song.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: MELISMA |
| English words defined with "MELISMA": Melismata. (references) |
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| "MELISMA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MELISMA" 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 (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
melisma | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Words beginning with "MELISMA": melismas, melismata, melismatic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MELISMA" (pronounced 'Me*lis"ma'): Aboma, Adenoma, Adipoma, Amma, Amphiuma, Analemma, Arapaima, Aroma, Asthma, Atheroma, Bema, Blastema, BRAHMA, Brama, Bregma, Broma, Cauma, Ceroma, Chacma, Chiloma, Chloasma, Chondroma, Cima, Coloboma, Comma, Cosmorama, Croma, Cyclorama, Cytoblastema, Enigma, fibroma, GAMMA, gemma, Georama, Glama, Glaucoma, Glioma, gumma, hematoma, Hypoderma, karma, Kokama, Lecama, lemma, Lepisma, leucoma, Lima, lipoma, llama, Loma. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-m-s" | |
-1 letter: emails, lemmas, mailes, mamies, mesial, samiel. | |
-2 letters: aisle, almes, amies, email, imams, lames, lemma, limas, limes, maile, mails, maims, males, malms, mamie, meals, miasm, miles, mimes, salmi, slime, smile. | |
-3 letters: ails, aims, ales, alme, alms, amie, amis, elms, ilea, imam, isle, lame, lams, lase, leas, leis, lies, lima, lime, maes, mail, maim, male. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-m-s" | |
+1 letter: dilemmas, malmiest, melanism, melismas. | |
+2 letters: camomiles, clammiest, imbalmers, immolates, malemiuts, mealtimes, melamines, melanisms, melismata, memorials, mentalism, semimetal, swimmable. | |
+3 letters: chamomiles, clamminess, filmmakers, immovables, melismatic, mentalisms, metabolism, metalsmith, millesimal, millstream, misclaimed, missileman, oriflammes, semiformal, semimetals. | |
+4 letters: bimetallism, commercials, immortalise, impalements, imperialism, mammalogies, materialism, maternalism, medievalism, memorialise, memorialist, metabolisms, metalsmiths, millesimals, millstreams, misassemble, multimedias, neurilemmas, symmetrical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 4C 49 53 4D 41 |
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