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"SYLPHS" is a plural of: sylph. |
Date "SYLPHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sylphs according to Middle Age belief, are the elemental spirits of air; so named by the Rosicrucians and Cabalists, from the Greek silphe (a butterfly or moth). (See Gnomes. ) Sylphs. Any mortal who has preserved inviolate chastity may enjoy intimate familiarity with these gentle spirits. All coquettes at death become sylphs, "and sport and flutter in the fields of air." "Whoever, fair and chaste, Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced." Pope: Rape of the Lock, i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: SYLPHS |
| Specialty definitions using "SYLPHS": Gnomes ♦ sylph. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen. |
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| "SYLPHS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SYLPHS" is used about 4 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 (plural) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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| 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 |
sylphs | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "SYLPHS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Lustgeiste. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ylphssay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"SYLPHS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selph, slyph, sulph, sylch, sylf, sylh, sylphe, symph, syplh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-p-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: sylph, syphs. | |
-2 letters: hyps, syph. | |
-3 letters: hyp, ply, shy, sly, spy. | |
-4 letters: sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-l-p-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: splashy. | |
+2 letters: phyleses, phylesis, sylphids, sylphish, syphilis. | |
+3 letters: haplessly, ladyships, mesophyls, physicals, splashily, waspishly. | |
+4 letters: helplessly, hopelessly, horseplays, hypabyssal, hyphenless, hypoblasts, hypostyles, mesophylls, photolyses, photolysis, phylaxises, phylesises, playhouses, sheepishly, snappishly, symphyseal, symphysial, synalephas, syphilises. | |
+5 letters: gypsophilas, hyaloplasms, hypoglossal, hypoplasias, lyophilises, misshapenly, phosphoryls, physicalism, physicalist, platyfishes, polyhistors, polytheisms, polytheists, psilophytes, shapelessly, sleepyheads, sporophylls, synaloephas, syphilitics, typhlosoles. | |
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