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Brainpower

Definition: Brainpower

Brainpower

Noun

1. Mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Brainpower

Synonyms: brain (n), learning ability (n), mental capacity (n), mentality (n), wit (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Brainpower

DomainTitle

Books

  • Your Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood, Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging (reference)

  • A 12-Week Plan for Bolstering Your Health, Boosting Your Brainpower, Getting Lean, Powering Up, and Adding Years to Your Life (reference)

  • How to Be Twice As Smart: Boosting Your Brainpower and Unleashing the Miracles of Your Mind (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Brainpower

"Brainpower" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Brainpower" is used about 8 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%8124,375

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Brainpower

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brainpower

42

brainpower ringtone

5

brainpower lyrics

4

beltoon brainpower

2

brainpower plotter

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Brainpower

Language Translations for "brainpower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

قوه ادراک شخص خوش فکروباقریحه . (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kekuatan otak. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(INTELLECT). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainpowerbray

   

Spanish

  

fuerza intelectual, capacidad intelectual (grasp). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Brainpower

Derivations

Words beginning with "brainpower": brainpowers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Brainpower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greypower. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Brainpower"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "brainpower" (pronounced brā"npou'er)
4-n p ou' ermanpower.
3-p ou' erairpower, firepower, horsepower, willpower.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Brainpower

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-w"

-2 letters: airborne, airpower, brawnier, brownier, ironware.

-3 letters: barnier, browner, brownie, pornier, prawner, prewarn, rainbow.

-4 letters: barren, barrio, barrow, bewrap, bonier, borane, brawer, briner, enwrap, inwrap, ironer, narrow, orbier, orpine, panier, pawner, pawnor, perron, prewar, prober, prowar, prower, rapier, rapine, reborn, repair, rewrap, ropier, wanier, warier, warner, warper, warren, weapon.

-5 letters: airer, apron, arbor, arpen, arrow.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-w"
 

+1 letter: brainpowers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Brainpower


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

42 72 61 69 6E 70 6F 77 65 72

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)

01000010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#112 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 0069 006E 0070 006F 0077 0065 0072

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

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

36846775808281897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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