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SPORADES

Definition: SPORADES

SPORADES

Noun plural

1. Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPORADES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Etymology: Sporades \Spor"a*des\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression spora`des. Compare to Sporadic.]. (Websters 1913)

"SPORADES" is a common misspelling or typo for: Sporadic.


Crosswords: SPORADES

English words defined with "SPORADES": Unformed stars. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SPORADES": Coos. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SPORADES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Agios Petros, a neolithic site in the northern Sporades : Aegean Relationships during the neolithic of the 5th Millennium (reference)

  • The Aegean world: Peloponnese, Sporades, Cyprus (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SPORADES

"SPORADES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPORADES" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SPORADES

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sporades

8

cruise in sporades

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "SPORADES"

Words rhyming with "SPORADES" (pronounced 'Spor"a*des'): Alectorides, Antipodes, Archimedes, Caryatides, Dasypaedes, Fides, Hades, Hesperides, IDES, Ironsides, Ixodes, Oreades, Palmipedes, Papilionides, Paradoxides, Phryganeides, Pierides, Pinnipedes, Placoides, Pleiades, Psilopaedes, Ptilopaedes, Rhaphides, Rheumides, Samoyedes, Slickensides, Sordes, Steganopodes, Xylophagides. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPORADES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-o-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: sarodes, soapers, spaders, spreads.

-2 letters: adores, aspers, dopers, dosers, dosser, drapes, operas, oreads, padres, pareos, parsed, parses, paseos, passed, passer, pedros, posers, prases, prosed, proses, rasped, repass, resods, sapors, sarode, sarods, serosa, soaped, soaper, soared, spader, spades, spared, spares, sparse, spears, spodes, spored, spores, spread.

-3 letters: adore, apers, apods, apres, apses, arose, arses.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: diaspores, paradoses, rhapsodes, scorepads.

 

+2 letters: desperados, eavesdrops, forepassed, leopardess, outspreads, overpassed, ponderosas, pressboard, rhapsodies, spadeworks, superroads, transposed.

 

+3 letters: caryopsides, desperadoes, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, disapproves, hydrospaces, jeopardises, overspreads, pasteboards, peroxidases, pressboards, pyranosides, radarscopes, rhapsodizes, scorpaenids, strappadoes, superboards.

 

+4 letters: basidiospore, comradeships, depositaries, desperations, disapprovers, dispensatory, draftsperson, handypersons, leopardesses, loudspeakers, personalised, preadmission, scolopendras, spatterdocks, superabounds, superstardom, swordplayers, transponders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SPORADES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 50 4F 52 41 44 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .--.    ---    .-.    .-    -..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010000 01001111 01010010 01000001 01000100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#68 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 004F 0052 0041 0044 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5350495235383953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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