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Definition: PONDERAL |
PONDERALAdjective1. Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. |
| "PONDERAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PONDERAL" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
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 |
ponderal | 15 |
index ponderal | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PONDERAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | indice pondéral (ponderal index). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Gewichts-Index (ponderal index). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | indice ponderale (ponderal index). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onderalpay indice ponderal (ponderal index). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "PONDERAL" (pronounced 'Pon"der*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aproned, ladrone, leopard, operand, padrone, pandore, paroled. | |
-2 letters: darnel, ladron, lander, lardon, loader, loaned, loaner, ordeal, pander, pardon, parled, parole, pedalo, pedlar, planed, planer, polder, ponder, prolan, reload, reloan, repand, replan, rondel. | |
-3 letters: adore, adorn, alder, alone, anode, anole, apron, arpen, denar, doper, drape, drone, eland, enrol, laden, lader, learn, loden, loner, loped. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: hydroplane, palindrome, panbroiled, pardonable, ponderable. | |
+3 letters: candlepower, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, overplanned, overplanted, palindromes, periodontal, philodendra, polyandries, scolopendra, unpolarized. | |
+4 letters: candlepowers, depolarizing, doppelganger, imponderable, imponderably, interpolated, lepidopteran, overpedaling, perichondral, personalised, personalized, providential, scolopendras, unpardonable. | |
+5 letters: cephaloridine, depersonalize, doppelgangers, imponderables, landownership, lepidopterans, openheartedly, overexplained, overpedalling, periodontally, porcelainized, preadolescent, predominantly, predominately, reduplication. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4E 44 45 52 41 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -. -.. . .-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O N D E R A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004E 0044 0045 0052 0041 004C |
| 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)5049483839523546 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francês |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, tedesco, alemão |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italienisch, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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