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MISPRONOUNCED

Definition: MISPRONOUNCED

MISPRONOUNCED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Mispronounce

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MISPRONOUNCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Crosswords: MISPRONOUNCED

Etymologies containing "MISPRONOUNCED": mispronounce. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MISPRONOUNCED

DomainTitle

Books

  • The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words (reference)

  • Words Most Often Misspelled and Mispronounced (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: MISPRONOUNCED

"MISPRONOUNCED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "MISPRONOUNCED" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)33.33%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past tense)33.33%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MISPRONOUNCED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mispronounced words

4

commonly mispronounced words

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MISPRONOUNCED

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

Chinese 

  

白字 (wrongly written and mispronounced character), 別字 (mispronounced or wrongly written character). (various references)

   

German

  

sprach falsch aus. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ispronouncedmay

   

Russian 

  

произносить неправильно.....произнесенный неправильно/. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "MISPRONOUNCED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MISPRONOUNCED" (pronounced mi'sprunou"nst)
8-p r u n ou" n s tpronounced.
6-u n ou" n s tannounced, denounced, unannounced.
5-n ou" n s trenounced.
4-ou" n s tbounced, pounced, trounced.
3-n s tadvanced, against, balanced, commenced, condensed, convinced, countenanced, counterbalanced, danced, dispensed, distanced, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evidenced, evinced, experienced, fenced, financed, glanced, incensed, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, minced, nuanced, referenced, refinanced, sensed, sentenced, silenced, unbalanced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, underfinanced, unfenced, unlicensed, winced.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MISPRONOUNCED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: mispronounce.

-2 letters: compendious, compounders.

-3 letters: compounder, condemnors, doronicums, indecorous, indecorums, princedoms, pronounced, pronounces, proscenium.

-4 letters: coinsured, composure, compounds, comprised, condemnor, condoners, conspired, cornpones, crimsoned, decurions, doronicum, encrimson, incorpsed, indecorum, midcourse, monecious, noncrimes, pecorinos, pneumonic, ponderous, preunions, princedom, pronounce, roundsmen, supermind, underpins, underspin.

-5 letters: coinsure, compends, composed, composer, compound, comprise, condemns, condoner, condones, condores, consider, conspire.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MISPRONOUNCED


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

4D 49 53 50 52 4F 4E 4F 55 4E 43 45 44

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

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

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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 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001110 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0053 0050 0052 004F 004E 004F 0055 004E 0043 0045 0044

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

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

47435350524948495548373938

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INDEX

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


  

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