Deconstruct

Definition: Deconstruct

Deconstruct

Verb

1. Interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing.

Domain	Title
Books	Deconstruct (reference) (more book examples) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Deconstruct" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Deconstruct" is used about 18 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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 "deconstruct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		вскрывать противоречия. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "deconstruct": deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstruction, deconstructionist, deconstructionists, deconstructions, deconstructive, deconstructor, deconstructors, deconstructs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deconstruct" (pronounced dē'kunstru"kt)
10	-ē' k u n s t r u" k t	reconstruct.
9	-k u n s t r u" k t	construct.
7	-n s t r u" k t	instruct.
6	-s t r u" k t	destruct, obstruct.
5	-t r u" k t	trucked.
3	-u" k t	abduct, bucked, chucked, conduct, deduct, ducked, duct, fucked, induct, plucked, shucked, sucked, tucked.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: constructed.
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: conducers, construct, construed.
	-3 letters: concerts, conducer, conduces, conducts, construe, contused, cornuted, counters, crunodes, destruct, eductors, recounts, roundest, strunted, stuccoed, stuccoer, succored, tonsured, trounced, trounces, unsorted.
	-4 letters: concert, concurs, conduce, conduct, contest, contuse, cornets, cornute, cotters, counted, counter, coursed, courted, couters, crudest, crunode, crusted, curtest, cutters, decocts, detours, docents, dotters, dourest, eductor, encrust, enduros, entrust, nutters, outsert, recount, redouts, resound, rodents, rousted, sconced, scorned, scoured, scouted, scouter, scutter, snorted, snouted, sounder, sourced, stentor, stouten, stouter, student, stunted, tenours, tenutos, testudo, tonsure, touters, trounce, trusted, tutored, undoers, undrest.
	-5 letters: censor, centos, cercus, cerous, codecs, codens, coders, concur, contes, corned, cornet, cornus, corset, costed, coster, cotter, counts, course, courts, couter, credos, crocus, crones, crouse, cruces, crudes, cruets, cruset, curets, cursed, cutest, cutter, decoct, decors, detour, docent, donuts, doters, dotter, douser, drones, dunces, durocs, duster, educts, enduro, eructs, escort, escudo, nestor, noters, nudest, nursed, nutted, nutter, occurs, octets, otters, ounces, ousted, ouster, outers, outset, recons, rectos, rectus, recuts, redons, redout, rodent, rotted, rotten, rottes, rotund, rouens, rounds, roused, routed, routes, rudest, rusted, rutted, sconce, scored, scoter, second, sector, secund, setout, snored, soccer, sonder, sorned, sorted, sotted, source, soured, souter, stoned, stoner, stored, stound, stoure, strode, stroud, strunt, stucco, succor, sunder, tenors, tenour, tensor, tenuto, teston, toners, torten, tortes, toters, toured, toused, touted, touter, trends, trones, trouts, truced, truces, truest, tuners, turned, tutors, undoer, undoes, unrest, untrod, uredos, utters.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: deconstructs.
	+2 letters: deconstructed, deconstructor, reconstructed, subcontracted, unconstricted, unconstructed.
	+3 letters: deconstructing, deconstruction, deconstructive, deconstructors, preconstructed, reductionistic.
	+4 letters: deconstructions, overconstructed, unreconstructed.
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