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Definition: Earwax |
EarwaxNoun1. A soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: EarwaxSynonym: cerumen (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But, I think I'll be safe with this toffee-flavored one [eats it).Hmm, alas, earwax. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
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Books | |
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| "Earwax" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Earwax" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earwax | 56 |
earwax removal | 26 |
earwax candle | 5 |
earwax record | 5 |
cafe earwax | 4 |
buildup earwax | 4 |
cleaning earwax | 3 |
remove earwax | 3 |
earwax remover | 2 |
earwax remedy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earwax"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dyllë beshi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ушна кал (wax). (various references) | |
Czech | ušní maz (ear wax). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرک گوش , ژفک , جرم گوش . (various references) | |
German | ohrenschmalz (wax). (various references) | |
Greek | κυψέλη του ωτόσ, κηρήθρα αυτιού. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fülzsír (wax). (various references) | |
Italian | cerume (cerumen, ear wax, wax), Cera nell'orecchio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 耳糞 , 耳垢 , 耳漏 (ear discharge), 耳屎 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じ"う (automobile industry, earhole, facts, fad, fashion, imperial tutor, inside the ear, item, matter, season, statute of limitations, time of the year), じろう (anal fistula, ear discharge), みみくそ, みみあか. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earwaxay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grosseiro (a.b.c., abc, awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hogmanay, home-made, ill mannered, ill-conceived, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), cera dos ouvidos. (various references) | |
Russian | ушная сера (cerumen, ear-wax, wax). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ušni vosak. (various references) | |
Swedish | öronvax. (various references) | |
Turkish | kulak kiri (cerumen, wax). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "earwax": earwaxes. (additional references) | |
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"Earwax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arawaks, Earac, earway, erawan, erax, eurax, Eurway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earwax" (pronounced i"rwa'ks or ē"rwa'ks) |
| 3 | -a' k s | aftertax, backpacks, borax, buybacks, climax, comebacks, counterattacks, cutbacks, drawbacks, flashbacks, galax, givebacks, greenbacks, gunnysacks, hemophiliacs, kickbacks, knickknacks, leasebacks, leatherbacks, lilacs, maniacs, mesothorax, metathorax, nymphomaniacs, overtax, paperbacks, parallax, pullbacks, quarterbacks, racetracks, razorbacks, rollbacks, setbacks, skipjacks, smokestacks, soundtracks, surtax, syntax, tarmacs, wisecracks. |
| 3 | -a' k s | aftertax, backpacks, borax, buybacks, climax, comebacks, counterattacks, cutbacks, drawbacks, flashbacks, galax, givebacks, greenbacks, gunnysacks, hemophiliacs, kickbacks, knickknacks, leasebacks, leatherbacks, lilacs, maniacs, mesothorax, metathorax, nymphomaniacs, overtax, paperbacks, parallax, pullbacks, quarterbacks, racetracks, razorbacks, rollbacks, setbacks, skipjacks, smokestacks, soundtracks, surtax, syntax, tarmacs, wisecracks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-r-w-x" | |
-1 letter: aware, rewax, waxer. | |
-2 letters: area, ware, wear. | |
-3 letters: are, awa, awe, axe, ear, era, raw, rax, rex, wae, war, wax. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ar, aw, ax, er, ex, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-r-w-x" | |
+2 letters: earwaxes. | |
| 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)45 61 72 77 61 78 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01000101 01100001 01110010 01110111 01100001 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r w a x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 0077 0061 0078 |
| 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)396784896790 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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