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Definition: RECONQUER |
RECONQUERTransitive verb1. To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province. |
Date "RECONQUER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Crosswords: RECONQUER |
| English words defined with "RECONQUER": Revict. (references) |
| "RECONQUER" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "RECONQUER" is used about 19 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 (infinitive) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "RECONQUER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستعاد (bring back, encore, give back, recapture, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve, scavenge, take), إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reconquérir (recover, regain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zurückerobern (recapture, retake, take back, to reconquer, win back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατακτώ πάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aaghoaill (recapture, re-engage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econquerray reconquistar (recover, resume). (various references) снова побеждать, захватывать (absorb, clench, enrapture, enthrall, grab, grip, hijack, invade, invaded, overwhelm, possess, preempt, seize, seize on, seizes, seizing). (various references) reconquistar (recapture, retake, win back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RECONQUER": reconquered, reconquering, reconquers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RECONQUER" (pronounced rēkô"ngker) |
| 3 | -ng k er | anchor, banker, bunker, canker, clunker, conquer, danker, drinker, Dunker, freethinker, hanker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, rancor, ranker, sinker, supertanker, tanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-q-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: coenure, conquer. | |
-3 letters: corner, encore. | |
-4 letters: corer, cornu, crone, crore, cruor, curer, enure, ounce, queen, queer, quern, recon, recur, rerun, roque, rouen. | |
-5 letters: cere, cero, cone, core, corn, cure, curn, curr, ecru, erne, euro, once, roue, ruer, rune, unco. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-q-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: reconquers. | |
+2 letters: reconquered. | |
+3 letters: reconquering. | |
+4 letters: gyrofrequency. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 43 4F 4E 51 55 45 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01010010 01000101 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010001 01010101 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C O N Q U E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 004F 004E 0051 0055 0045 0052 |
| 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)523937494851553952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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