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Definition: PELL |
PELLNoun1. A roll of parchment; a parchment record. 2. A skin or hide; a pelt. Transitive verb1. To pelt; to knock about. |
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 income ♦ Electronic Data Exchange ♦ Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Free Application for Federal Student Aid ♦ National 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Pell Street Mystery (1924) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pell | Last name | 1,000 | 8,033 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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