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UNSHIFTABLE

Definition: UNSHIFTABLE

UNSHIFTABLE

Adjective

1. Shiftless; helpless.

2. That may /ot be shifted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: UNSHIFTABLE

"UNSHIFTABLE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNSHIFTABLE" is used about 6 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

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

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Rhyming with "UNSHIFTABLE"

Words rhyming with "UNSHIFTABLE" (pronounced 'Un*shift"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UNSHIFTABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-l-n-s-t-u"

-2 letters: bisulfate, blueshift, flashtube, shiftable.

-3 letters: abluents, absinthe, alunites, basinful, bluefins, bluefish, bustline, fabulist, fishable, fistulae, habitues, halibuts, hasteful, huntable, inflates, instable, insulate, shinleaf, suitable, sunbathe, unfaiths, unstable.

-4 letters: abluent, absinth, albites, alunite, antiflu, astilbe, aunties, baneful, banshie, banties, bashful, basinet, bastile, batfish, beauish, benthal, bestial, blastie, bluefin, blueish, butanes, elastin, eluants, entails, fainest.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNSHIFTABLE


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

55 4E 53 48 49 46 54 41 42 4C 45

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)

01010101 01001110 01010011 01001000 01001001 01000110 01010100 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#70 &#84 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0053 0048 0049 0046 0054 0041 0042 004C 0045

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

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

5548534243405435364639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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