Ectoplasm

Definitions: Ectoplasm

Ectoplasm

Noun

1. (in spiritualism) the substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance.

2. The outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm.

Etymology: Ectoplasm \Ec"to*plasm\, noun. [Ecto- Greek expression form.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Ectoplasm

English words defined with "ectoplasm": Ectoplastic, Ectosarc, Exoplasm. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ectoplasm" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (ectoplasm).

Domain	Title
Music	Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Vol. 2) (reference) Vile Foamy Ectoplasm (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Ectoplasm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ectoplasm" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

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 "ectoplasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ektoplasmë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الجبلة الخارجية. (various references)

Bulgarian		ектоплазма. (various references)

Czech		ektoplazma. (various references)

Danish		ektoplast, ektoplasma. (various references)

Dutch		ectoplasma. (various references)

French		ectoplasme. (various references)

German		Ektoplasma. (various references)

Greek		εκτόπλασμα. (various references)

Hungarian		ektoplazma, külső protoplazmaréteg. (various references)

Manx		ectoplasm. (various references)

Pig Latin		ectoplasmay.(various references)

Russian		эктоплазма. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ektoplazma. (various references)

Spanish		ectoplasma. (various references)

Swedish		ektoplasma. (various references)

Turkish		ektoplazma, medyumdan çıkan sihirli ruh, dışplazma. (various references)

Ukranian		ектоплазма. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ectoplasm": ectoplasmic, ectoplasms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ectoplasm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecktoplasm, ecotopians, ectoplasam, ectoplasma. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ectoplasm" (pronounced 'Ec"to*plasm'): Archoplasm, Bioplasm, Cataplasm, Cytoplasm, Deutoplasm, Endoplasm, Entoplasm, Exoplasm, Heteroplasm, Hygroplasm, Idioplasm, Metaplasm, Mythoplasm, Neoplasm, Nucleoplasm, Plasm, Proplasm, Protoplasm, Stereoplasm. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: compleat, polecats.
	-2 letters: amplest, apostle, calmest, camlets, caplets, capotes, coempts, comates, compels, copalms, escalop, lactose, locates, maltose, pelotas, placets, polecat, pomaces, talcose, toecaps.
	-3 letters: almost, amoles, aslope, aspect, camels, cameos, camlet, campos, caplet, capote, castle, celoms, clamps, claspt, cleats, clomps, closet, coapts, coempt, comate, comets, compel, compts, comtes, copalm, copals, costae, costal, eclats, epacts, lamest, locate, macles, maples, mascot, mescal, metals, molest, motels, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, pelota, petals, places, placet, plates, pleats, pomace, postal, samlet, sample, sapote, septal, smalto, solace, solate, staple, stomal, tempos, tepals, toecap.
	-4 letters: acmes, alecs, almes, aloes, altos, amole, ample, ascot, atoms, calms, calos, camel, cameo, cames, campo, camps, capes, capos, caste, cates, celom, celts, cesta, clamp, clams, claps, clapt, clasp, clast, cleat, clept, clomp, clops, close, clots, coals, coapt, coast, coats, colas, coles, colts, comae, comal, comas, comes, comet, comps, compt, comte, copal, copes, copse, coset, costa, cotes, eclat, epact, escot, estop, laces, lames, lamps, lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, loams, lopes, lotas, maces, macle, males, malts, maple, mates, meals, meats, melts, metal, moats, molas, moles, molts, mopes, moste, motel, motes, octal, opals, paces, pacts, pales, palet, palms, paseo, paste, pates, peals, peats, pelts, pesto, petal, place, plasm, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plots, poems, poets, poles, pomes, psalm, psoae, salep, satem, scale, scalp, scamp, scape, scope, sepal, septa, setal, slate, slept, slope, smalt, smelt, smolt, smote, socle, space, spale, spate, spelt, splat, stale, stamp, steal, steam, stela, stoae, stole, stoma, stomp, stope, taces, tacos, taels, talcs, tales, tames, tamps, tapes, teals, teams, telos, tempo, temps, tepal, tepas, tesla, toeas, tolas, toles, tomes, topes.
	-5 letters: aces, acme, acts, alec, ales, alme, alms, aloe, alps, also, alto, alts, amps, apes, apse, ates, atom, atop, calm, calo, came, camp, cams, cape, capo, caps, case, cast, cate, cats, cels, celt, ceps, clam, clap, clop, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, cols, colt, coma, come, comp, cope, cops, cost, cote, cots, east, eats, elms, epos, etas, lace, lacs, lame, lamp, lams, laps, lase, last, late, lats, leap, leas, lept, lest, lets, loam, loca, lope, lops, lose, lost, lota, lots, mace, macs, maes, male, malt, maps, mast, mate, mats, meal, meat, mels, melt, mesa, meta, moas, moat, mocs, mola, mole, mols, molt, mope, mops, most, mote, mots, oast, oats, ocas, olea, oles, opal, opes, opts, pace, pacs, pact, pale, palm, pals, pams, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pecs, pelt, peso, pest, pets, plat, plea, plot, poem, poet, pole, pols, pome, poms, pose, post, pots.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: ectoplasms.
	+2 letters: compatibles, complicates, ectoplasmic.
	+3 letters: amylopectins, contemplates, problematics, semitropical.
	+4 letters: compellations, complexations, conceptualism, contemplators, incompatibles, kleptomaniacs, neoplasticism, outplacements, polycythemias, semipolitical, thermoplastic.
	+5 letters: accomplishment, aposematically, campylobacters, cephalometries, compatibleness, compensability, compensational, conceptualisms, contemplations, contemplatives, ergastoplasmic, exceptionalism, metapsychology, metencephalons, microparticles, neoplasticisms, ophthalmoscope, petrochemicals, pinealectomies, recompilations, thermoplastics.
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