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Definition: Absorbency |
AbsorbencyNoun1. The property of being absorbent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: nonabsorbency (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Absorbency |
| English words defined with "absorbency": chromatography. (references) |
| "Absorbency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Absorbency" is used about 24 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 (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "absorbency": high-absorbency, super-absorbency, under-absorbency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "absorbency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 吸"能力. (various references) | |
German | Saugfähigkeit (suction). (various references) | |
Italian | assorbenza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吸湿性 (hygroscopicity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうしつせい (hygroscopicity). (various references) | |
Manx | maanalys (absorption). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absorbencyay.(various references) | |
Russian | поглощение;всасывание (absorbence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | apsorpcije (absorptivity), apsorbancija, mogućnost upijanja (absorptivity). (various references) | |
Spanish | absorbencia (absorbance, absorbancy, absorption capacity, absorptive capacity, absorptive power, absorptivity). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вбираність, поглинальність. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Absorbency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absorbancy, absorbence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "absorbency" (pronounced ubzô"rbunsē) |
| 5 | -b u n s ē | incumbency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-e-n-o-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: baseborn, nabobery, snobbery. | |
-3 letters: baryons, beacons, boraces, boranes, carbons, carboys, carneys, coarsen, cobbers, corbans, corneas, crayons, nabbers, narcose, rosebay, soybean, yabbers. | |
-4 letters: abbeys, absorb, acorns, arseno, bacons, bancos, barbes, barons, barony, baryes, baryon, beacon, beanos, boners, borane, boyars, braces, broncs, cabers, cabobs, caners, canoes, carbon, carbos, carboy, carney, carobs, casern, censor, coarse, cobber, cobras, coneys, corban, cornea, crabby, cranes, crayon, creasy, crones, nabber, nabobs, nacres, narcos, nearby, oceans, racons, rances, rayons, reason, recons, scabby, scarey, senary, senora, snobby, sobber, yabber, yearns, yerbas. | |
-5 letters: abbes, abbey, abyes, acerb, acnes, acorn, acres, aeons, arose, arson, babes, bacon, banco, banes, barbe, barbs, bares, barns, barny, baron, barye, baser, beano, beans, bears, boars, boner, bones, boney, boras, bores, borne, boyar, brace, braes, brans, brays, brens, bronc, brose, brosy, byres, cabby, caber, cabob, caner, canes, canoe, canso, carbo, carbs, cares, carns, carny, carob, carse, ceros, cobbs, cobby, cobra, cones, coney, corby, cores, corns, corny, corse, cosey, coyer, crabs, crane, crone, crony, cyano, cyans, earns, ebons, ebony, escar, eyras, nabes, nabob, nacre, narco, narcs, nares, nears, nobby, nosey, obeys, ocean, ocrea, onces, onery, orcas, oyers, races, racon, rance, rayon, recon, resay, roans, robes, saber, sabre, saner, sayer, scare, scary, scena, scone, score, scorn, senor, serac, snare, snore, sober, sonar, syren, yarns, yeans, yearn, years, yerba, yores. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-e-n-o-r-s-y" | |
+3 letters: bonnyclabbers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 73 6F 72 62 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ... --- .-. -... . -. -.-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b s o r b e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0073 006F 0072 0062 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35688581846871806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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