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Candyfloss

Definition: Candyfloss

Candyfloss

Noun

1. A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature.

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



Synonyms: Candyfloss

Synonyms: cotton candy (n), spun sugar (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Candyfloss

"Candyfloss" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Candyfloss" is used about 14 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%1493,893

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

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Expression: Candyfloss

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "candyfloss": candyfloss-maker.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Candyfloss

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

candyfloss

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Candyfloss

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

Greek 

  

μαλλιά της γριάς. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andyflosscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Candyfloss

Derivations

Words beginning with "candyfloss": candyflosses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Candyfloss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-l-n-o-s-s-y"

-3 letters: falcons, flacons, sandfly, solands, soldans, synodal.

-4 letters: cansos, classy, dossal, falcon, flacon, flossy, fondly, salons, scalds, scolds, sloyds, soland, solans, soldan, synods.

-5 letters: acold, acyls, calfs, calos, candy, canso, clads, clans, class, clays, clods, clons, cloys, coals, coaly, codas, colas, colds, cyano, cyans, donas, donsy, fados, fancy, fanos, flans, flays, flocs, floss, foals, focal, folds, fonds, fossa, lands, lasso, loads, loafs, loans, lossy, lyssa, nodal, odyls, ofays, sadly, salon, sands, sandy, scads, scald, scaly, scans, scold, slays, sloyd, sodas, sofas, solan, sonly, sonsy, soyas, syncs, synod.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-f-l-n-o-s-s-y"
 

+2 letters: candyflosses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Candyfloss


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

43 61 6E 64 79 66 6C 6F 73 73

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)

01000011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01111001 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#121 &#102 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006E 0064 0079 0066 006C 006F 0073 0073

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

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

37678070917278818585

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INDEX

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


  

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