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"FEINTS" is a plural of: feint. |
Date "FEINTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The last runnings of a distillation containing most of the amyl alcohol and other substances of high boiling point. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FEINTS |
| English words defined with "FEINTS": demonstration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FEINTS": Current Sourcing Logic. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He comes to the attack, no lost feints, a pliant wrist, sparkling play, a flash, step exact, and ripostes mathematical. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FEINTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "FEINTS" is used about 10 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 (plural) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
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 |
feints soccer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FEINTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | efterløb (caster, tailings, tails, wheel caster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | naloop (caster, float, float time, slack, tails, wheel caster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälkitisle (tails), jälkijuoksu (tails), hännät (tails). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | queues de distillation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verstellungen, Finten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρά της απόσταξης (tails). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | code di distillazione (tails). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eintsfay produtos de cauda da destilação (tails), cauda da destilação (tails). (various references) productos de cola (tails), colas de destilación (tails). (various references) svans (scut, tail, trail, train), eftersprit (tails). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FEINTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affiants, beinst, feignt, feinty, Feitas, fents, Fewins, feynt, fient, Fienta, finst, Finstp, fuint, Heinitz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: finest, infest. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: feint, feist, fines, inset, neifs, neist, nites, senti, stein, tines. | |
-2 letters: efts, fens, fets, fine, fins, fist, fits, neif, nest, nets, nite, nits, seif, sent, sift, sine, site, snit, tens, ties, tine, tins. | |
-3 letters: efs, eft, ens, fen, fet, fie, fin, fit, ifs, ins, its, net, nit, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fainest, finites, fishnet, fitness, infects, infests, nifties, snifter, stiffen. | |
+2 letters: benefits, fainters, faintest, fanciest, fantasie, fawniest, feasting, feltings, feminist, ferniest, fifteens, figments, finniest, fishnets, fistnote, fitments, funkiest, funniest, infantes, infested, infester, inflates, inflects, manifest, niftiest, notifies, snifters, stiffens, unsifted. | |
+3 letters: antefixes, disinfect, disinfest, faineants, faintness, fantasied, fantasies, fantasise, fantasize, fascinate, fastening, fattiness, feminists, fenthions, ferritins, festering, festinate, fetations, fetidness, fettlings, filaments, finitudes, firestone, fistnotes, fitnesses, flatlines, flections, flinkites, flintiest, foresting, fostering, frenetics, frightens, fringiest, frontiers, fustiness, heftiness, infecters, infectors, infestant, infesters, infesting, infinites, inflaters, influents, intensify, interfuse, introfies, loftiness, manifesto, manifests, nitrifies, notifiers, reinfects, resifting, safetying, sniffiest, snuffiest, softening, stiffened, stiffener, stiffness, stonefish, swiftness, tiffanies, unfairest, unfitness, unshifted. | |
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