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Date "SPITALFIELDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spitalfields (London). A spital is a charitable foundation for the care of the poor, and these were the fields of the almshouse founded in 1197 by Walter Brune and his wife Rosia. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "SPITALFIELDS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.03% of the time. "SPITALFIELDS" is used about 67 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) | 94.03% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (plural) | 5.97% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
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 |
spitalfields | 8 |
festival spitalfields | 5 |
market spitalfields | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-l-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: tailslides. | |
-3 letters: diallists, dissipate, falsities, idealists, lapidists, pastilles, satisfied, spadilles, tailslide. | |
-4 letters: dialists, diallist, distills, ellipsis, epitasis, fetialis, fideists, filiated, filiates, filliped, fissiped, flapless, fleapits, idealist, lapidist, palliest, pastille, pitfalls, pitiless, plastids, salified, salifies, sideslip, silliest, spadille, tailless, talipeds, tallises. | |
-5 letters: aidless, alipeds, aplites, apsides, dailies, daisies, dallies, delists, desalts, details, dialist, dilates, dillies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 49 54 41 4C 46 49 45 4C 44 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .. - .- .-.. ..-. .. . .-.. -.. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01001001 01010100 01000001 01001100 01000110 01001001 01000101 01001100 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P I T A L F I E L D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0049 0054 0041 004C 0046 0049 0045 004C 0044 0053 |
| 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)535043543546404339463853 |
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