PALA

Domain	Definition
Health	An anticancer drug that is being studied to increase the effectiveness of the chemotherapy drug fluorouracil. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: PALA

Non-English Usage: "PALA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Basque (shovel), Chamorro (shovel), Esperanto (pale, sallow), Finnish (bit, cut chunk, lump, piece, tablet), Hungarian (schist, shale, slate), Indonesian (nutmeg), Italian (blade, paddle, sail, shovel), Latin (palette, peel, peel for putting bread in the oven, shoulder blade, shovel, spade), Occitan (shovel), Portuguese (blade, eyeshade, heel tap, peak, sloping bottom, slugged bottom, slugged punt, vamp, wedged bottom), Spanish (bat, battledore, blade, paddle, palm, Peel, racket, scoop, server, setting, shovel, spade, spadeful, vamp), Turkish (broadsword, cutlass, machete, paddle, scimitar, scimiter, sword).

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Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Pieni Pala Jumalaa (1999)

Skon Pala Rocku (1985)

Oru Mukham Pala Mukham (1983)

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

Domain	Title
Books	"We Are Not Savages": Native Americans in Southern California and the Pala Reservation, 1840-1920 (reference) Filosofia, scienza, storia : studi in onore di Alberto Pala (reference) LA Cueva De LA Pala Chica: A Burial Cave in the Guaymas Region of Coastal Sonora, Mexico (Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology, No 38) (reference) La Pala D'Oro (reference) Pala låokaòm pala kåalaòm : yåatörakaòluòte oru pustakaòm : yåatöråavivaraònaòm (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Christmas card with Pala script, 11th Century A.D. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Chad	Although the NGO reported that Salam appeared to have been tortured during his detention, he would not speak about it. In March 2000, the police chief of Pala arrested and tortured a schoolteacher, Tigalou Mbaiky. (references)
Political Economy	Costa Rica	Other minority parties include the Agricultural Labor Reform Party (PALA), the Costa Rican Renovation Party (evangelical) and the Integrationist Party (PIN). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"PALA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "PALA" is used about 7 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)	85.71%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "PALA" 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
Pala	Last name	130	61,363
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Pala, CA
Zip Code(s): 92059
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PALA

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
pala casino	288	pala california	4
pala	109	indian pala	3
pala mesa resort	69	mecanica pala	3
pala mesa golf	21	interstate pala	3
pala mesa	21	al com copeland link pala	3
course golf mesa pala	20	casino pala photo	3
pala ca	16	middle pala school	3
pala mesa golf resort	15	band indian mission pala	3
pala indian casino	14	pala casino ca	2
casino pala resort	7	ancha pala	2
con pala sombrero un una y	7	gem pala	2
pala casino.com	7	canyon dura pala texas	2
pala indian reservation	6	casion pala	2
canyon dura pala	6	casino employment pala	2
casino hotel pala	6	de pala partes una	2
pala resort	6	al copeland.com link pala	2
canyon duro pala	5	mission pala	2
pala casino california	4	pala tech	2
international pala	4	mis pala	2
casino diego pala san	4	brother pala	2
		pala hotel	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: PALA

Derivations
	Words beginning with "PALA": palabra, palabras, palace, palaced, palaces, paladin, paladins, palaestra, palaestrae, palaestras, palais, palanquin, palanquins, palatabilities, palatability, palatable, palatableness, palatablenesses, palatably, palatal, palatalization, palatalizations, palatalize, palatalized, palatalizes, palatalizing, palatally, palatals, palate, palates, palatial, palatially, palatialness, palatialnesses, palatinate, palatinates, palatine, palatines, palaver, palavered, palavering, palavers, palazzi, palazzo, palazzos. (additional references)
	Words ending with "PALA": impala, tampala. (additional references)
	Words containing "PALA": impalas, tampalas, unpalatabilities, unpalatability, unpalatable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PALA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-p"
	-1 letter: aal, ala, alp, lap, pal.
	-2 letters: aa, al, la, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-p"
	+1 letter: alpha, appal, jalap, kalpa, palea, papal, playa, plaza, salpa.
	+2 letters: alpaca, alphas, apical, apneal, apodal, appall, appals, appeal, calpac, carpal, earlap, impala, jalaps, kalpak, kalpas, lampad, lampas, napalm, paella, palace, palais, palate, paleae, paleal, pallia, palmar, palpal, papula, parlay, parral, pascal, pausal, payola, plagal, planar, plasma, platan, playas, plazas, salpae, salpas, tapalo.
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