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Definition: Schadenfreude |
SchadenfreudeNoun1. (German) delight in another person's misfortune. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Schadenfreude |
| Non-English Usage: "Schadenfreude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (glee, gloating, malicious joy, malicious-joy, spitefulness). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
German Schaden: damage, harm + Freude: joy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Schadenfreude."
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| "Schadenfreude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schadenfreude" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
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 |
schadenfreude | 83 |
schadenfreude throes | 5 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Schadenfreude": schadenfreudes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-e-f-h-n-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: adherences, freehanded, reascended, underfeeds. | |
-4 letters: adherence, adherends, deadeners, decreased, defenders, descender, freshened, serenaded, underfeed, unreached. | |
-5 letters: adducers, adherend, ascended, ascender, careened, censured, chaufers, cheddars, chuddars, chudders, credenda, creeshed, crusaded, daunders, deadener, deafened, deceased, decerned, decrease, defacers, defences, defender, defensed, defrauds, denuders, drenched, drenches, durances, encashed, enchased, enchaser, endeared, enserfed, fendered, freehand, frenched, frenches, furnaced, furnaces, haeredes, hardened, hundreds, raunches, reascend, redheads, refenced, refences, refunded, screeded, screened, searched, secerned, serenade, sundered, surfaced, uncashed, underfed, undersea, unerased, unfeared, unheeded, unseared, unseeded, unshaded, unshared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-e-f-h-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: schadenfreudes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 61 64 65 6E 66 72 65 75 64 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100110 01110010 01100101 01110101 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h a d e n f r e u d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 0061 0064 0065 006E 0066 0072 0065 0075 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53697467707180728471877071 |
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