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Definition: PROSPECTED |
PROSPECTEDImperative & past participle1. Of Prospect |
Date "PROSPECTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1863. (references) |
Crosswords: PROSPECTED |
| Specialty definitions using "PROSPECTED": instrumentalities of mining ♦ prospect drill panner ♦ scout boring. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A car-owner with a medium-size car spends approximately $1,000 annually just to possess a car. In the past five years, inflation and vehicle prices (up roughly 7.5%)have remained low; however, fuel prices (up 15%) and transfer of car ownership costs (up 25%) have soared, not to mention the prospected 50% increase in car insurance in 2001. The automotive sector is still weighed down by a tax load that dampens domestic demand. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PROSPECTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "PROSPECTED" is used about 8 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PROSPECTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 勘察 (Prospecting). (various references) | ||||
German | suchte (quested, sought). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 탐광하". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ospectedpray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"PROSPECTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prospecta, prospecter, prospectes, prospecti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: prosected, stoppered. | |
-2 letters: coppered, corseted, dopester, escorted, estopped, percepts, precepts, precodes, proceeds, prospect, sceptred, sectored, stropped. | |
-3 letters: cestode, coppers, copters, crested, cropped, deports, deposer, escoted, oersted, percept, precept, precode, proceed, prosect, recepts, recodes, redtops, reposed, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre, sported, stepped, stepper, stopped, stopper, teredos, toppers. | |
-4 letters: ceders, certes, coders, copers, copped, copper. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: crowstepped. | |
+3 letters: propaedeutics. | |
+4 letters: counterstepped. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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