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PELL

Definition: PELL

PELL

Noun

1. A roll of parchment; a parchment record.

2. A skin or hide; a pelt.

Transitive verb

1. To pelt; to knock about.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PELL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

"PELL" is a common misspelling or typo for: pal, pall, peal, peel, pill, poll, pull, spell.

 

Crosswords: PELL

English words defined with "PELL": Clerk of the pells. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PELL": Alternative Measures of incomeElectronic Data ExchangeFederal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Free Application for Federal Student AidNational Student Loan Data System. (references)
Etymologies containing "PELL": Pillion. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PELL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (paunch, prominence of the stomach), Welsh (afar, aloof, distant, far, long, remote).

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Modern Usage: PELL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Pell Street Mystery (1924)

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

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Commercial Usage: PELL

DomainTitle

Books

  • 52 [i.e. Cinquanta dues] hores a través de la pell (reference)

  • 97 [i.e. Noranta set] notes sobre ficcions poncianes ; La pell de la pell (reference)

  • LA Pell De Brau (reference)

  • La pell de la iguana : novel la (reference)

  • Lèxic de la indústria de la pell (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: PELL

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Mary Pell Daly, half-length portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tammany "workers" at the polls in Pell Street, New York - the beginning of a free fight / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pell. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: PELL

"PELL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "PELL" is used about 24 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)95.83%2372,767
Noun (singular)4.17%1339,140
                    Total100.00%24N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: PELL

The following table summarizes the usage of "PELL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PellLast name1,0008,033
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: PELL

Expressions using "PELL": Pell City Pell Lake pell mell. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "PELL": pell-mell.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PELL

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pell grant

2,210

online application for pell grant

8

federal pell grant

367

grant pell texas

8

pell grant application

143

apply grant online pell

7

pell

62

florida grant pell

7

pell city al

50

pell pontiac

7

apply for a pell grant

35

pell rudman

6

federal pell grant application

33

2003 2004 grant pell

6

pell city alabama

31

pell grant for college

6

pell city

24

2003 grant pell

6

pell lake wi

20

free pell grant

6

pell axel rudi

19

grant pell requirement

6

applying grant pell

19

federal pell grant program

6

information about pell grant

16

aid financial grant pell

6

government pell grant

14

amount grant pell

6

eligibility grant pell

13

pell grant program

5

pell grant form

13

city ford pell

5

beca pell

10

bartow pell mansion

5

john pell

9

applying for federal pell grant

5

grant pell qualification

9

grant.com pell

5

pell grant online

8

fafsa grant pell

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PELL

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

Albanian

  

rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), nxitimthi (hastily, headlong, hurriedly, pell mell, slapdash), mbarë e prapë (pell mell), lesh-e-li (pell mell), lëmsh (ball, clew, clot, jam, jumbal, jumble, mass, mix, mix up, pell mell, pellet, puff, ruck, tangle, welter, winding), i rrëmujshëm (disheveled, dishevelled, disorderly, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, pell mell, rambunctious, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), i bërë me ngut (hurried, pell mell). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مختلط حابله بنابله (pell mell), ‏بلا نظام (pell mell), ‏بتهور (at full tilt, blindly, headlong, impulsively, pell mell, rashly), ‏بعجلة شديدة (pell mell), ‏بخليط (pell mell). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разхвърлян (desultory, higgledy-piggledy, incoherent, messy, pell mell, piggish, scattered, unkempt, untidy), разбъркан (deranged, farraginous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled, mixing up, out of order, pell mell, perturbed, promiscuous, tumultuary, turbid, untidy), меле (melee, pell mell, power play, rouge, rough and tumble), миш-маш (mash, medley, mingle-mangle, mishmash, pell mell, salmagundi), един през друг (pell mell), лудешката (pell mell), лудешки (pell mell), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безреден (disjointed, inordinate, orderless, pell mell, raucous, riotous, rough and tumble, tumultuary, tumultuous), безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, embroilment, imbroglio, misrule, negligence, pandemonium, pell mell, untidiness), безразборно (at large, higgledy-piggledy, hit or miss, pell mell, sweepingly), без ред (helter-skelter, pell mell), презглава (head over heels, pell mell). (various references)

   

Czech

  

Kùže (derm, fell, hide, leather, rind, skin). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stenstyrtning (pell-mell blocks). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gestorte blokken (pell-mell blocks). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sikinsokin (in a mess, pell-mell, topsy-turvy, upside down), huiskin haiskin (helter-skelter, pell-mell). (various references)

   

French

  

pêle-mêle (pell mell), en désordre (pell mell), blocs pêle-mêle (pell-mell blocks). (various references)

   

German

  

Pergamentrolle (parchment scroll). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φύρδην μίγδην (helter skelter, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell), ογκόλιθοι τυχαία τοποθετημένοι (pell-mell blocks). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

במבוכ" (pell mell), באי ס"ר (pell mell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összevissza (helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, hurry-skurry, indiscriminate, pell mell, pell-mell, promiscuous, rambler, slap dash, slap-dash, straggly, to scour about, to straggle, topsy-turvy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

aprit-apritan (run feverishly, run pell mell). (various references)

   

Italian

  

massi alla rinfusa (pell-mell blocks), in gran fretta (pell mell), disordinato (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, irregular, messy, muddled, pell mell, slovenly, unsettled, untidy, wild), disordinatamente (higgledy-piggledy, pell mell), confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly), caotico (chaotic, messy, pell mell), alla rinfusa (higgledy-piggledy, in confusion, pell mell), a precipizio (pell mell), a catafascio (pell mell). (various references)

   

Manx

  

er mooin y cheilley (helter-skelter, pell-mell). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

em desordem (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, pell-mell, uproarious, upside down), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, immoderate, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent, untidy), desordenadamente (discomposedly, disorderly, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, pell-mell, topsy-turvy), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturbed, dizzy, hugger-mugger, indistinct, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, pell-mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy-turvy), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), atabalhoadamente (disorderly, pell-mell). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zor-nevoie (pell mell), val-vârtej (pell mell), harababurã (confusion, fuss, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, motley, muddle, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil, welter), haos (chaos, confusion, pell mell, pie), cu susul în jos (bottom up, pell mell, topsy turvy, upside down), amestecãturã (congeries, hotchpotch, mash, medley, motley, patchwork, pell mell, pie, potpourri, promiscuity, puddle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очертя голову (pell mell), неразбериха (bewilderment, box-up, confusion, hurrah's nest, mix, mix up, muddle, pell mell, pell-mell, skein, snafu, topsy-turvydom, welter), мешанина (gallimaufry, hash, hodgepodge, hodge-podge, mash, medley, mishmash, omnium gatherum, patchwork, pell mell), беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, erratic, haywire, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, rambling, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuary, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down), беспорядочно (helter-skelter, hugger mugger, pell mell, rough-and-tumble), беспорядок (bewilderment, box-up, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, messroom, misrule, mix, muss, pell mell, tangle, tumble, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, upset). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zbrkan (confused, fuddled, hugger mugger, jumbled, mazy, messy, muddled, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, pell mell), zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter), s brda s dola (pell mell), nasumice (adrift, blindfold, pell mell, random, random: at random, venture: at a venture), metež (helter-skelter, hubbub, pell mell, pother, scuffle, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar, upset), izmešano (pell mell), dar-mar (higgledy-piggledy, hubble bubble, hurry-scurry, mingle-mangle, pell mell). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), escollera arrojada (pell-mell blocks), en desorden (haywire, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pellmell, topsyturvy, tousled, untidy), desordenado (disordered, disorderly, dissipatedly, hugger mugger, inordinate, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, riotous, topsyturvy, untidy), caótico (chaotic, pell mell, pellmell), barahúnda (hubbub, pell mell, pellmell, racket, turmoil), a trochemoche (haphazardly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pellmell), a la desbandada (helter-skelter, in disorder, pell mell, pellmell). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oordnad (confused, disorganized, disreputable, incoherent, pell mell, rough and tumble, wild), huvudstupa (head over heels, headlong, pell mell), huller om buller (helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pell-mell, topsy turvy, upside down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

patırtılı (clamorous, noisy, pell mell, pellmell, tumultuous), paldır küldür (headlong, hurriedly, pell mell, pellmell, rashly, with a rush), palas pandıras (neck and crop, pell mell, pellmell, rashly), karman çorman (all mixed up, chaotic, confused, crabbed, crabby, higgledy-piggledy, messy, mussy, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, topsyturvy), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, disheveled, dishevelled, embroiled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), kargaşalı (pell mell, pellmell, tumultuary, tumultuous), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), curcuna (Charivari, noisy confusion, pell mell, pellmell, pother, racket, razzle-dazzle, uproar), apar topar (headlong, helter-skelter, hurriedly, pell mell, pellmell, posthaste), allak bullak (all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, confused, confusedly, pell mell, pellmell, snafu, topsyturvy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стрімголов (at full pelt, headlong, hotfoot, pell mell, pellmell), як-небудь (anyhow, anyway, pell mell, pellmell, so and so, some time, somehow), безладно (confusedly, disorderly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuously), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter), плутаний (addle, disconnected, discursive, entangled, muddy, pell mell, pellmell, puzzle-headed, wrongheaded), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, embroilment, hubbub, hurly burly, intricacy, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, skein, snarl, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tình trạng ngổn ngang bừa bãi (pell-mell), tình trạng lộn xộn (mess, mix-up, muddle, mull, pell-mell, topsyturvydom, trouble), tình trạng hỗn loạn (helter-skelter, lawlessness, pell-mell, topsyturvydom), tình trạng hỗn độn (mess, muss, pell-mell), cảnh lộn xộn (pell-mell), cảnh hỗn loạn (pell-mell), cảnh hỗn độn (pell-mell). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PELL

Derivations

Words beginning with "PELL": pellagra, pellagras, pellagrin, pellagrins, pellagrous, pellet, pelletal, pelleted, pelleting, pelletise, pelletised, pelletises, pelletising, pelletization, pelletizations, pelletize, pelletized, pelletizer, pelletizers, pelletizes, pelletizing, pellets, pellicle, pellicles, pellitories, pellitory, pellmell, pellmells, pellucid, pellucidly. (additional references)

Words ending with "PELL": bonspell, counterspell, misspell, outspell, respell, spell. (additional references)

Words containing "PELL": appellant, appellants, appellate, appellation, appellations, appellative, appellatively, appellatives, appellee, appellees, appellor, appellors, bipropellant, bipropellants, bonspells, cappelletti, carpellary, carpellate, compellable, compellation, compellations, compelled, compelling, compellingly, counterspells, cupellation, cupellations, cupelled, cupeller, cupellers, cupelling, dispelled, dispelling, expellable, expelled, expellee, expellees, expeller, expellers, expelling, gospeller, gospellers, impelled, impeller, impellers, impelling, impellor, impellors, interpellate, interpellated, interpellates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"PELL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eppell, Pelli, Pelo, Pfeil, Poehl, Poell, Prell. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-l-p"

-1 letter: ell.

-2 letters: el, pe.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-p"
 

+1 letter: lapel, spell.

 

+2 letters: lapels, paella, paleal, palely, palled, pallet, pellet, pilled, pilule, plexal, polled, pollee, pollen, poller, pollex, pulled, puller, pullet, pulley, repoll, spells, upwell.

 

+3 letters: bellhop, bullpen, clypeal, ellipse, helpful, lapeled, lipless, liplike, paellas, pallets, pallier, patella, pellets, penally, perilla, phellem, pillage, pilules, playlet, pleural, pliable, plumule, pollees, pollens, pollers, pollute, prebill, prepill, presell, prilled, pullers, pullets, pulleys, redpoll, repolls, respell, scalpel, spalled, spaller, spelled, speller, spilled, spiller, upswell, upwells.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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