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Definition: STAMMERED |
STAMMEREDImperative & past participle1. Of Stammer |
Date "STAMMERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | He stammered out "W-won't" to Miss Maria who asked him to kiss her. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He stammered out a few more unintelliglble words, then his head fell heavily upon the table. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "STAMMERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 97.04% of the time. "STAMMERED" is used about 135 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 97.04% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.22% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.74% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 135 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "STAMMERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "巴 (stammering). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | begayai, begayés, begayées, begayée, begaya. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | stammelte (babbled), gestottert (stuttered), gestammelt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammeredstay заикаться;запинаться (stammer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STAMMERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stameed, stamied, stammerd, stimerol. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ammeters, mastered, metamers, streamed. | |
-2 letters: ammeter, dammers, dearest, derates, metamer, redates, remated, remates, reteams, sedater, smarted, smeared, stammer, steamed, steamer, stemmed, stemmer, trammed. | |
-3 letters: adeems, ameers, aretes, armets, dammer, daters, demast, derate, derats, dermas, desert, deters, dreams, dreamt, easter, eaters, edemas, emmers, emmets, erased, madres, marted, masted, master, maters, matres, meated, merdes, merest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dermatomes, dreamtimes. | |
+3 letters: commiserated, dynamometers, mainstreamed, masterminded, semidiameter. | |
+4 letters: admeasurement, dynamometries, melodramatise, metamorphosed, semidiameters, summersaulted. | |
+5 letters: admeasurements, immoderateness, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatizes. | |
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