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Definition: SACRIST |
SACRISTNoun1. A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books. |
Etymology: Sacrist \Sa"crist\, noun. [from Late Latin expression sacrista. See Sacristan.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SACRIST |
| English words defined with "SACRIST": Ecclesiarch. (references) |
| "SACRIST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SACRIST" 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 (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
sacrist | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SACRIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sakristan (sacristan), kishar (sacristan, Sexton, verger), kandilanaft (sacristan). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقدس (blessed, consecrating, divine, hallowing, heavenly, holy, sacramental, sacred, sanctifying). (various references) | |
Czech | kostelník (beadle, sacristan, Sexton, verger). (various references) | |
French | sacristain (sacristan). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sekrestyés (beadle, parish clerk, sexton, verger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acristsay.(various references) | |
Russian | ризничий (sacristan). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crkvenjak (sacristan, sexton, verger), čuvar nota. (various references) | |
Spanish | sacristán (churchwarden, parish clerk, sacristan, Sexton, verger). (various references) | |
Swedish | sakristan (sacristan). (various references) | |
Turkish | zangoç (bell ringer, ringer, sacristan, Sexton, verger), kilise kayyumu (sacristan). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ключар (sacristan). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người giữ đ" thờ thánh (sacristan). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SACRIST": sacristan, sacristans, sacristies, sacrists, sacristy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: racists. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: crasis, crissa, crista, racist, scarts, sistra, sitars, stairs, triacs. | |
-2 letters: airts, arsis, astir, carts, casts, cists, crass, saris, satis, scars, scart, scats, sitar, stair, stars, stirs, stria, tarsi, trass, triac, tsars. | |
-3 letters: acts, airs, airt, aits, arcs, arts, asci, cars, cart, cast, cats, cist, cris, rats, rias, sacs, sari, sati, scar, scat, sics, sirs, sits, sris, star, stir, tars, tass, tics, tsar. | |
-4 letters: act, air, ais, ait, arc, ars, art, ass, car, cat, cis, its, ras, rat, ria, sac, sat, sic, sir, sis, sit, sri, tar, tas, tic, tis. | |
-5 letters: ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astricts, czarists, narcists, sacrists, sacristy, scariest. | |
+2 letters: abstricts, acrostics, acrotisms, adscripts, archaists, canisters, caritases, casuistry, catharsis, ceramists, chartists, chastiser, creasiest, croissant, distracts, mistraces, ostracise, ostracism, piscators, practises, rusticals, sacristan, sarcastic, scarriest, scenarist, scimetars, scimitars, sectaries, staircase, suricates. | |
+3 letters: anarchists, ancestries, archivists, armistices, ascertains, backstairs, cannisters, carditises, careerists, cartelises, chastisers, constrains, costmaries, crabsticks, craftiness, crassitude, crayonists, croissants, interclass, justiciars, kickstarts, larcenists, marcasites, masseteric, miscreants, miscreates, narcissist, ocularists, ostracised, ostracises, ostracisms, ostracizes, patristics, prefascist, psoriatics, racialists, resistance, rusticates, sacristans, sacristies, scarcities, scenarists, scraggiest, scrappiest, scrawliest, scrawniest, sectarians, secularist, sidetracks, staircases, starchiest, strabismic, subarctics, suctorians, tracksides, tracksuits, transsonic, trichiases, trichiasis, witchgrass, yardsticks. | |
+4 letters: acquisitors, aerostatics, antiracisms, antiracists, archpriests, aristocrats, ascriptions, breadsticks, cartoonists, cassiterite, castigators, castrations, casuistries, catachresis, categorises, centralises, centralisms, centralists, ceramicists, clavierists, constraints, crassitudes, crystalizes, crystallise, curtainless, cystinurias, desiccators, dispatchers, erraticisms, escharotics, eviscerates, factorships, fascinators, franticness, insectaries, interspaces, linecasters, manicurists, manuscripts, masticators, microstates, monarchists, narcissists, nasogastric, orchardists, organicists, oscillators, ostracising, pasticheurs, pharmacists, prefascists, rascalities, recitalists, requiescats, researchist, resistances, resuscitate, revanchists, rickettsias, rusticators, sanctifiers, sanctuaries, scarlatinas, scatterings, scissortail, scrabbliest, scraggliest, scratchiest, secretaries, secularists, spermacetis, starchiness, supremacist, switchgrass, switchyards, syndicators, tapersticks, testatrices, transcribes, transcripts, transiences, ultrabasics, ultrasonics. | |
+5 letters: abstractions, achromatisms, antimacassar, astronautics, astrophysics, atmospherics, blacklisters, cassiterites, cataphoresis, ceratopsians, charismatics, choirmasters, chrismations, christianias, cirrostratus, clarinetists, clearstories, clericalists, commiserates, commissariat, comparatists, confiscators, conservatism, consistorial, conspirators, contrariness, corporatisms, coruscations, craftinesses, creationisms, creationists, creativeness, criticalness, criticasters, crossability, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallizes, crystalloids, curatorships, desecrations, distractions, disturbances, gastroscopic, gastrotrichs, harmonicists, hydrostatics, ichthyosaurs, intercostals, intraspecies, latchstrings, macrocytosis, magistracies, masterpieces, miscreations, narcissistic, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, overcastings, parachutists, plasticizers, postorgasmic, postsurgical, psychiatries, psychiatrist, quasicrystal, reactiveness, researchists, resuscitated, resuscitates, resuscitator, romanticises, romanticisms, romanticists, rustications, sabermetrics, sarcomatosis, satisfactory, scissortails, scratchiness, searchlights, secretariats, sectarianism, secularistic, secularities, semiabstract, separatistic, solidaristic, spirochaetes, subcuratives, subtractions, superplastic, supremacists, surrealistic, switchboards, tracheitises, transactions, transceivers, transcribers, transections, transiencies, transpicuous, transpierces, transuranics, varicosities, verticalness, witchgrasses, wristwatches. | |
| 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)53 41 43 52 49 53 54 |
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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)01010011 01000001 01000011 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A C R I S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0043 0052 0049 0053 0054 |
| 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)53353752435354 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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