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Definition: POLENTA |
POLENTANoun1. Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. |
Date "POLENTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Polenta \Po*len"ta\, noun. [Italian expression, from the Latin expression polenta peeled barley.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: POLENTA |
| Specialty definitions using "POLENTA": Francesca da Rimini ♦ Seed Projects Unit. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "POLENTA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (polenta), Hungarian (polenta), Latin (barley groats, pearl barley), Spanish (polenta), Swedish (polenta). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Polenta (1980) | |
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| "POLENTA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "POLENTA" 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 (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
polenta | 174 |
polenta recipe | 63 |
grilled polenta | 4 |
cake polenta | 3 |
de polenta receita | 3 |
creamy polenta | 2 |
italiana la polenta | 2 |
cake polenta recipe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POLENTA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصيدة من دقيق الذرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | каша от царевично брашно, полента. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | polenta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | polenta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olentapay полента. (various references) palenta, kačamak (flummery). (various references) polenta. (various references) polenta. (various references) полента. (various references) lúa mạch (barley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POLENTA": polentas. (additional references) | |
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"POLENTA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iolanta, palenta, Pelenna, peleta, Polena, poleta, Poletti, pollenta, polynya, Ponente, poulantaz, Poulsenia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "POLENTA" (pronounced 'Po*len"ta'): Abranchiata, Albata, Amanita, Amniota, Amrita, Annellata, Annulata, Anotta, Anta, Aorta, Aplacentata, Appendiculata, Aprocta, Argonauta, Arista, Articulata, Atlanta, Avesta, Bafta, Ballista, Baryta, Basta, Battuta, Berretta, beta, Bonetta, Brachiata, Burletta, Cantata, Carromata, Catallacta, Caudata, Cephalata, Charta, Chiretta, Chordata, Cicuta, Ciliata, Cirrobranchiata, Coaita, Codetta, Comedietta, Costa, Cotta, Craniota, Crusta, Cryptobranchiata, Cuesta, Decacerata, Deciduata. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: etalon, lepton, pelota, planet, platen, teopan, tolane. | |
-2 letters: alone, anole, atone, laten, leant, leapt, lento, lepta, netop, nopal, notal, oaten, paeon, palet, panel, panto, paten, pelon, penal, petal, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, talon, tepal, tolan, tonal. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aloe, alto, ante, atop, elan, enol, etna, lane, late, lean, leap, leno, lent, lept. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: antelope, antipole, conepatl, gantlope, pantofle, pentanol, polentas. | |
+2 letters: antelopes, antipoles, conepatls, epilation, gantelope, gantlopes, operantly, overplant, pantalone, pantofles, patrolmen, pentanols, phenolate, planetoid, platooned, pollinate, potential, pulmonate. | |
+3 letters: alpenstock, antilepton, antipolice, cantaloupe, complacent, conceptual, depilation, epilations, floatplane, gantelopes, heptagonal, houseplant, lithophane, neoplastic, opalescent, outleaping, outplanned, overplants, pantalones, peculation, pentagonal, pentaploid, pentathlon, peritoneal, personalty, phenolated, phenolates, planetoids, pleonastic, pollinated, pollinates, polyvalent, ponytailed, potentials, potentilla, pratincole, prefrontal, propellant, protonemal, pulmonates, tablespoon, thiopental, trampoline, treponemal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 45 4E 54 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. . -. - .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L E N T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0045 004E 0054 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50494639485435 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, francia, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, suédois, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrainien, ukrán, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamien, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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