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Definition: PHYSIOGNOMICAL |
PHYSIOGNOMICALAdjective1. Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy. |
Date "PHYSIOGNOMICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
"PHYSIOGNOMICAL" is a common misspelling or typo for: physiognomic. |
Crosswords: PHYSIOGNOMICAL |
| English words defined with "PHYSIOGNOMICAL": Physiognomic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PHYSIOGNOMICAL": physiognomical astrology. (references) |
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| "PHYSIOGNOMICAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHYSIOGNOMICAL" is used about 2 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PHYSIOGNOMICAL": physiognomical astrology. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "PHYSIOGNOMICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | astrologie physiognomonique (physiognomical astrology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | φυσιογνωμικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ysiognomicalphay fisonómico (physiognomic). (various references) фізіогномічний (physiognomic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "PHYSIOGNOMICAL": physiognomically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: physiognomic. | |
-3 letters: hooliganism, physiologic. | |
-4 letters: chamoising, hypolimnia, imposingly, minischool, miscopying, misplacing, misplaying, shampooing. | |
-5 letters: amylopsin, anglicism, champions, compiling, complains, complying, composing, gasolinic, homoplasy, hooligans, hypomanic, hyponoias, implosion, logicians, logomachs, logomachy, mislaying, misogynic, monophagy, moonishly, oompahing, palominos, physician, pignolias, polishing, polygamic, schooling, schoolman, shamoying, smooching, symphonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: physiognomically. | |
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