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Definition: Credential |
CredentialNoun1. A document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "credential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: CredentialSynonyms: certificate (n), certification (n), credentials (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evidence | Admission; (assent); authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket; testamur; record; document; pi |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Credential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Credential" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "credential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | letra kredenciale (credentials), kredencial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إعتمادي (credent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | акредитивен, препоръчителен (advisable, commendable, recommendable, recommendatory, testimonial, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 证件 (Voucher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dùvìryhodný (credent, credible, reliable, trustful, trustworthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geloofsbrief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | akreditaĵo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گواهی نامه (Testimonial), استوارنامه , اعتبارنامه , اختیار (Adoption, Authority, Liberty, Mandate, Option). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lettre de créance, accrédité (credent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Berechtigungsnachweis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πιστοποιητικό (certificate, scrip, testimonial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכתב "מלצ" (recommendation), תעו"" (attestation, bill, certificate, diploma, document, documentary, record, report, ticket), כתב "אמ ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | persónuskilríki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | credenziali (credentials). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자격 증명서. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edentialcray referências (credentials, reference). (various references) мандатный (mandatory), мандат (capa, mandate). (various references) akreditivan. (various references) credencial (accreditation, badge), de credencial. (various references) мандат (mandate), посвідчення особи, диплом (diploma, patent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "credential": credentialed, credentialing, credentialism, credentialisms, credentialled, credentialling, credentials. (additional references) | |
Words containing "credential": noncredentialed, uncredentialed. (additional references) | |
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"Credential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: credentcial, credentialc, credinta, crudential, Freudenthal, Friedenthal, Rodentia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "credential" (pronounced krude"nkhul or krude"nshul) |
| 7 | -u d e" n kh u l | presidential, providential, residential. |
| 6 | -d e" n kh u l | prudential. |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, preferential, reverential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
| 7 | -u d e" n sh u l | confidential, nonresidential. |
| 6 | -d e" n sh u l | jurisprudential. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u l | essential, experiential, potential, quintessential. |
| 4 | -n sh u l | financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: interlaced. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: decaliter, interlace, tailender. | |
-2 letters: antlered, articled, calender, cantered, centiare, clarinet, creatine, crenated, dateline, decanter, decliner, decretal, delicate, denticle, derelict, detailer, detainer, dicentra, elaterid, elaterin, entailed, entailer, increate, iterance, lacertid, lanceted, lineated, recanted, reclined, reliance, renailed, retailed, retained, treenail. | |
-3 letters: alerted, aliened, aliener, altered, antired, arenite, article, atelier, cairned, candler, carline, catered, centare, centile. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: centralised, centralized, credentials. | |
+2 letters: cantilevered, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, glycerinated, intercalated, reinoculated. | |
+3 letters: candlelighter, considerately, coresidential, countervailed, credentialing, credentialism, credentialled, decelerations, decentralized, decentralizes, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, deprecatingly, reconsolidate, unpredictable. | |
+4 letters: candlelighters, counterclaimed, counterrallied, credentialisms, credentialling, creditableness, decentralizing, depreciatingly, dichloroethane, electrodynamic, interdialectal, reconsolidated, reconsolidates, rediscountable, uncredentialed, unpredictables. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomies, dichloroethanes, electrodynamics, inconsiderately, intercorrelated, laryngectomized, noncredentialed, overcentralized, straitlacedness. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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