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MITTY

Definition: MITTY

MITTY

Noun

1. The stormy petrel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: MITTY

English words defined with "MITTY": Walter Mitty. (references)

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Modern Usage: MITTY

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

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

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Commercial Usage: MITTY

DomainTitle

Books

  • No Place for Mitty (reference)

  • Sir Harold Wilson, Yorkshire Walter Mitty (reference)

  • The Man Who Was Walter Mitty (reference)

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Classic Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Usage Frequency: MITTY

"MITTY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MITTY" is used about 12 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 (proper)100%12101,599

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

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Expression: MITTY

Expression using "MITTY": Walter Mitty. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MITTY

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

secret life of walter mitty

74

walter mitty

47

archbishop mitty high school

20

mitty

18

archbishop mitty

17

high mitty school

17

the secret life of walter mitty by james thurber

6

james life mitty secret thurber walter

6

mitty collier

5

life mitty secret summary walter

4

life mitty secret short story walter

3

mitty school

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

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Rhyming with "MITTY"

Words rhyming with "MITTY" (pronounced 'Mit"ty'): Batty, BEAUTY, Betty, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Butty, Canty, Catty, Clotty, Cosurety, County, Cutty, Cytty, Duty, Flitty, Fouty, frailty, Fretty, Genty, gritty, Hasty, haughty, jaunty, kitty, knotty, Motty, Musty, Nasty, Natty, Naughty, Netty, Nonsurety, nutty, Overempty, Overhasty, Patty, Pentecosty, Petty, Planxty, -plasty, Rafty, Reasty, safety, Shinty, Skilty, Skitty, smutty, snotty, spotty. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MITTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-m-t-t-y"

-1 letter: mitt, mity.

-2 letters: tit.

-3 letters: it, mi, my, ti.

 Words containing the letters "i-m-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: timothy, yttrium.

 

+3 letters: maturity, mistryst, motility, motivity, mythiest, smuttily, temerity, thymiest, timidity, tumidity, yttriums.

 

+4 letters: altimetry, emotivity, extremity, lithotomy, maternity, mentality, mistrysts, mortality, multicity, mutuality, rhythmist, termitary, testimony, tympanist, ytterbium.

 

+5 letters: admittedly, asymptotic, immaturity, impotently, intimately, militantly, mistrysted, mitigatory, multiparty, multistory, mutability, optimality, rhythmists, systematic, temptingly, toponymist, trichotomy, trimonthly, tryptamine, tympanists, tympanites, tympanitic, ultimately, vitrectomy, ytterbiums.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MITTY


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

4D 49 54 54 59

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 01010100 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0054 0054 0059

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

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

4743545459

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INDEX

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


  

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