SYCORAX

Sycorax is a witch living on an island in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. She enchanted the island, was the mother of Caliban, and imprisoned the spirit Ariel for disobedience. Sycorax dies before the arrival of Prospero and his daughter, Miranda.

Sycorax is a moon of Uranus. Its orbital radius is approximately 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 160 km in diameter, but this size estimate is based on the moon's apparent brightness and the assumption that it has an albedo of about 0.07. Its orbit is retrograde and highly inclined. Sycorax's composition is probably a mixture of rock and ice, and its unusually red color suggests a historical link with the Kuiper belt; Sycorax is probably a captured Kuiper Belt object.

Sycorax was discovered on September 6 - September 7, 1997 by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope; they also discovered the moon Caliban at the same time.

Usage Frequency: SYCORAX

"SYCORAX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.18% of the time. "SYCORAX" is used about 39 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SYCORAX

Anagrams: SYCORAX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-s-x-y"
	-2 letters: orcas, scary.
	-3 letters: arco, arcs, cars, cays, coax, cors, cory, cosy, coxa, coys, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, oryx, osar, racy, rays, rocs, rosy, ryas, scar, scry, soar, sora, soya.
	-4 letters: arc, ars, ays, car, cay, cor, cos, cox, coy, cry, oar, oca, ora, orc, ors, oxy, ras, rax, ray, roc, rya, sac, sax.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-s-x-y"
	+2 letters: carboxyls, xylocarps.
	+3 letters: excusatory.
	+4 letters: carboxylase.
	+5 letters: carboxylases, carboxylates, exclusionary.
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Alternative Orthography: SYCORAX

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

53 59 43 4F 52 41 58

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 01011001 01000011 01001111 01010010 01000001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#89 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0059 0043 004F 0052 0041 0058

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

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

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sycorax A witch, whose son was Caliban. (Shakespeare: The Tempest.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	87.18%	34	59,261
Noun (singular)	7.69%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.13%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Expression	Frequency per Day
sycorax	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SYCORAX

Specialty Definition: SYCORAX

Literature

Specialty Definition: Sycorax

Usage Frequency: SYCORAX

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SYCORAX

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