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MISCELLANIES

Definition: MISCELLANIES

MISCELLANIES

Plural

1. Of Miscellany

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MISCELLANIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Crosswords: MISCELLANIES

English words defined with "MISCELLANIES": Miscellanarian, Miscellanist. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MISCELLANIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Miscellanies - Vol. 11 (Notable American Authors) (reference)

  • Miscellanies Biographical and Other Sketches and Letters (reference)

  • Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (reference)

  • Miscellanies upon Various Subjects (reference)

  • My Miscellanies (The Works of Wilkie Collins - Volume 20) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MISCELLANIES

"MISCELLANIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "MISCELLANIES" is used about 11 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (plural)72.73%8124,375
Noun (proper)27.27%3202,518
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MISCELLANIES

Language Translations for "MISCELLANIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

混合物 (Maslin, miscellany, Mixt, mixture). (various references)

   

German

  

vermischte Schriften (miscellany), Gemische (farragoes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscellaniesmay

   

Swedish

  

varia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: MISCELLANIES

Misspellings

"MISCELLANIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Miscellanea, miscellaneus, miselaneus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MISCELLANIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-n-s-s"

-2 letters: mescalines, saliencies, sinsemilla.

-3 letters: alienisms, lemniscal, mescaline, messaline, messianic, misallies, salicines, saliences, sensillae.

-4 letters: ainsells, alienism, allicins, amnesics, calmness, cleanses, laceless, laciness, laicises, laicisms, lameness, lemnisci, licenses, limacine, limeless, liminess, lineless, mailless, maleness, maneless, manilles, mealless, melanics, meniscal, micellae, micelles, millines, miscalls, nacelles, nameless, salesmen, salicine, salicins, salience, sanicles, sensilla, silences, silicles.

-5 letters: aimless.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-n-s-s"
 

+3 letters: semicrystalline.

 

+4 letters: intellectualisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MISCELLANIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 53 43 45 4C 4C 41 4E 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    -.-.    .    .-..    .-..    .-    -.    ..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01010011 01000011 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001110 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0053 0043 0045 004C 004C 0041 004E 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474353373946463548433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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