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Escadrille

Definitions: Escadrille

Escadrille

Noun

1. A small squadron.

2. A air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Escadrille

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

French (flight, squadron).

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Modern Usage: Escadrille

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lafayette Escadrille (1958)

L' Escadrille de la chance (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Escadrille

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lafayette Escadrille Pilot Biographies (reference)

  • Only the clouds remain : Ted Parsons of the Lafayette Escadrille (reference)

  • Story of the Lafayette Escadrille (Cornerstones of Freedom) (reference)

  • The Lafayette Escadrille (Men at War Series) (reference)

  • The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Escadrille

Illustrations:
Escadrille

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Usage Frequency: Escadrille

"Escadrille" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Escadrille" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Escadrille

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cafe escadrille

26

lafayette escadrille

10

50s escadrille

5

escadrille

4

chant combat escadrille et

2

burlington cafe escadrille ma

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Escadrille

Derivations

Words beginning with "escadrille": escadrilles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Escadrille" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Escuadrilla. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Escadrille

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-l-r-s"

-2 letters: cadelles, cedillas, cellared, dalliers, deciares, declares, decrials, diallers, radicels, radicles, realised, recalled, resailed, rescaled, sclereid, sidereal.

-3 letters: aediles, allseed, cadelle, callers, cedilla, ceilers, cellars, cereals, claries, cleared, clerids, cradles, creased, creedal, dallier, dallies, dealers, dearies, decares, deciare, deciles, declare, decrial, decries, deicers, dellies, derails, dialers, dialler, eclairs, ladlers, leaders, leadier, radicel, radices.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-l-r-s"
 

+1 letter: escadrilles.

 

+4 letters: candlelighters, recrystallized.

 

+5 letters: electrodialyses, electrodialysis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Escadrille


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 73 63 61 64 72 69 6C 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ...    -.-.    .-    -..    .-.    ..    .-..    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01100100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#100 &#114 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0063 0061 0064 0072 0069 006C 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39856967708475787871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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