Echoic

Definitions: Echoic

Echoic

Adjective

1. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer.

2. Like or characteristic of an echo.

Synonyms: Echoic

Synonyms: echolike (adj), imitative (adj), onomatopoeic (adj), onomatopoeical (adj), onomatopoetic (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: nonechoic (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Echoic

English words defined with "echoic": nonechoic. (references)

"Echoic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Echoic" 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

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 "echoic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si jehonë. (various references)

Bulgarian		звукоподражателен (onomatopoeic), ехтящ (resonant, resounding, reverberant). (various references)

Czech		ozvìnový. (various references)

French		résonnant. (various references)

Hungarian		visszhangszerû. (various references)

Pig Latin		echoicay.(various references)

Portuguese		ressoar (boom, clang, clash, peal, rebound, reecho, resonate, resound, reverberate, rumble, sound, whang). (various references)

Russian		звукоподражательный (onomatopoeic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji odjekuje (resounding, reverberant, reverberating, sounding). (various references)

Spanish		onomatopéyico (onomatopoeic). (various references)

Thai		คล้ายเสียงสะท้อน. (various references)

Ukranian		відбитий (reflective, reflex). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "echoic": anechoic. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Echoic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bechio, Cehovin, ecchi, Eccovi, echoe, Echoy, ekofisk, Elchaig, ethmoid, lekovic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: choice.
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o"
	-1 letter: chico.
	-2 letters: chic, echo.
	-3 letters: chi, hic, hie, hoe, ice, ich.
	-4 letters: eh, he, hi, ho, oe, oh.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o"
	+1 letter: choicer, choices, choreic, conchie.
	+2 letters: anechoic, choicely, choicest, choleric, conchies, corniche, enchoric, ricochet, zecchino.
	+3 letters: chicories, chronicle, cochaired, cochineal, cockshies, corniches, echolalic, libecchio, mischoice, ricochets, zecchinos.
	+4 letters: aircoaches, chalcocite, checkpoint, chiccories, chickenpox, chickories, choiceness, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, cinchonine, cochairmen, cochineals, cockneyish, colchicine, crocheting, ecchymosis, ecchymotic, escharotic, heroicomic, hiccoughed, libecchios, microfiche, mischoices, octarchies, peacockish, pleochroic, ricocheted, theocratic.
	+5 letters: archdiocese, bescorching, biochemical, cacophonies, catholicate, catholicize, chalcedonic, chalcocites, chameleonic, checkpoints, checkrowing, chemotactic, chernozemic, chiromancer, chocolatier, cholestatic, cholesteric, cholinergic, chrominance, chromogenic, chromomeric, chroniclers, cinchonines, coherencies, colchicines, dichroscope, echinococci, ectomorphic, ectothermic, ectotrophic, encroaching, escharotics, euchromatic, geochemical, incoherence, melancholic, microfiches, microinches, necrophilic, nonchemical, polytechnic, procephalic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, ricocheting, ricochetted, schottische, synecdochic, technologic, theocentric, theocracies, zootechnics.
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