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Definition: SLYPE |
SLYPENoun1. A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. |
Etymology: Slype \Slype\, noun. [Compare to Dutch sluipen to sneak.]. (Websters 1913) |
| "SLYPE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SLYPE" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SLYPE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Пасаж, "алерия (Piazza). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Přepadnout Přes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Összekötõ Folyosó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ypeslay Крытая Аркада. (various references) hodnik na svodove oko dvorišta. (various references) đường cầu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SLYPE": slypes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: yelps. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: espy, leys, lyes, lyse, pyes, yelp. | |
-2 letters: els, ley, lye, pes, ply, pye, sel, sly, spy, yep, yes. | |
-3 letters: el, es, pe, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: blypes, plyers, pusley, sleepy, slypes. | |
+2 letters: clypeus, cypsela, deploys, employs, leprosy, limpsey, paisley, parleys, parsley, pentyls, peskily, peyotls, phenyls, players, poleyns, pulleys, pusleys, pussley, replays, shapely, sparely, splayed, spleeny, steeply, yelpers. | |
+3 letters: cyclopes, cypselae, dyspneal, employes, epilepsy, epistyle, flyspeck, gyplures, lampreys, maypoles, mesophyl, outyelps, paisleys, paleways, palfreys, paralyse, parsleys, payables, peytrals, peytrels, phyleses, phylesis, plastery, playless, playlets, playpens, pleurisy, polyenes, polymers, polysemy, polysome, priestly, prostyle, protyles, psaltery, pussleys, pyelitis, pyrroles, resupply, sextuply, sleepily, slippery, sparsely, speedily, sprucely, superbly, superlay, supinely, supplely. | |
| 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 4C 59 50 45 |
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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 01001100 01011001 01010000 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L Y P E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0059 0050 0045 |
| 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)5346595039 |
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