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Date "QUILP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
"QUILP" is a common misspelling or typo for: quail, quell, quill, quilt, quip. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quilp A hideous dwarf, both fierce and cunning, in The Old Curiosity Shop, by Dickens. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: QUILP |
| Specialty definitions using "QUILP": Frozen Words. (references) |
| "QUILP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "QUILP" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-p-q-u" | |
-1 letter: puli, quip. | |
-2 letters: lip, piu, pul. | |
-3 letters: li, pi, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-p-q-u" | |
+2 letters: pasquil. | |
+3 letters: applique, pasquils. | |
+4 letters: appliqued, appliques, palanquin, piquantly, quintuple. | |
+5 letters: antiplaque, palanquins, prequalify, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)51 55 49 4C 50 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--.- ..- .. .-.. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010001 01010101 01001001 01001100 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Q U I L P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0051 0055 0049 004C 0050 |
| 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)5155434650 |
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