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WICKET-GATE

Date "WICKET-GATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)


Specialty Definition: WICKET-GATE

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Literature

Wicket-gate The entrance to the road that leadeth to the Celestial City. Over the portal is the inscription- "KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU".(Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: WICKET-GATE

"WICKET-GATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WICKET-GATE" is used about 5 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 (singular)100%5157,705

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

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Anagrams: WICKET-GATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-k-t-t-w"

-4 letters: cattie, tacket, ticket, wicket.

-5 letters: ackee, attic, tacet, tacit, tawie, tecta, tweak, tweet, twice, wacke.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WICKET-GATE


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

57 49 43 4B 45 54 2D 47 41 54 45

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

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

01010111 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010100 00101101 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#84 &#45 &#71 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0043 004B 0045 0054 002D 0047 0041 0054 0045

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

5743374539541541355439

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INDEX

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


  

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