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"PARSNIPS" is a plural of: parsnip. |
Date "PARSNIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: PARSNIPS |
| English words defined with "PARSNIPS": genus Pastinaca, genus Sium ♦ Pastinaca ♦ Sium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PARSNIPS": Soft Words Butter no Parsnips. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| "PARSNIPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.89% of the time. "PARSNIPS" is used about 37 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 (plural) | 91.89% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PARSNIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | szavakkal nem lehet jóllakni (fair words butter no parsnips, fine words butter no parsnips), megélni (fair words butter no parsnips), ígéretekből nem lehet megélni (soft words butter no parsnips), ígéretekből nem lehet (fair words butter no parsnips). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arsnipspay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pastinaca sativa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PARSNIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parsip, passnip, Pausanius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-p-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: parsnip, sprains. | |
-2 letters: sarins, sprain. | |
-3 letters: airns, apsis, arsis, aspis, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, paris, pians, pinas, pirns, priss, rains, ranis, rasps, sains, sarin, saris, sasin, snaps, snips, spans, spars, spins. | |
-4 letters: ains, airn, airs, anis, asps, naps, nipa, nips, pain, pair, pans, paps, pars, pass, pian, pias, pina, pins, pips, pirn, piss, psis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-p-p-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: paperiness, sandpipers, strappings. | |
+3 letters: scrappiness. | |
+4 letters: paperinesses, partisanship, partnerships, planispheres, suppurations, transshipped. | |
+5 letters: appraisements, apprehensions, glasspapering, misapprehends, partisanships, perspirations, postlapsarian, propagandists, scrappinesses, sportsmanship, subprincipals, transshipping. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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