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Definition: Frailness |
FrailnessNoun1. The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frailness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Synonyms: FrailnessSynonyms: debility (n), feebleness (n), frailty (n), infirmity (n). (additional references) |
| "Frailness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frailness" 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.
| Language | Translations for "frailness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قابلية الكسر (flimsiness, fragility, frailty), ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), крехкост (crispness, delicacy, flimsiness, fragility, tenderness), деликатност (consideration, delicacy, fineness, fragility, nicety, tenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fragilité (fragility, frailty), faiblesse (frailty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gebrechlichkeit (fragility, frailty, infirmity, infirmness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστάθεια (disequilibrium, fickleness, frailty, inconstancy, instability, mutability, shakiness, unsteadiness), αδυναμία (debility, delicacy, feebleness, flabbiness, foible, frailty, inability, infirmity, languor, puniness, shortcoming, weakliness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבירות (brittleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty), חולש" (debility, distemper, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailty, infirmity, languishment, languor, laxation, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törékenység (brittleness, delicacy, embrittlement, fragility, frailty), gyengeség (debility, enervation, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, fragility, impotence, infirmity, mildness, tenuity, tenuousness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ailnessfray хрупкость (fragility, frailty), непрочность (flimsiness, frailty, perishableness). (various references) krhkost. (various references) fragilidad (delicacy, fragility, frailty), debilidad (debilitation, debility, dimness, enervation, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, flimsiness, foible, frailty, grogginess, infirmity, meekness, shakiness, weakness). (various references) zayıflık (caducity, debility, delicacy, diathesis, failing, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailty, impotence, impotency, lameness, leanness, puniness, slimness, spareness, thinness, weakness), narinlik (fragility, frailty, slenderness, slightness, slimness, tenderness), hafiflik (airiness, giddiness, lightness, looseness, slightness, slowness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fragilitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frailness": frailnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Frailness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fragilness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "frailness" (pronounced 'Frail"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: fairness, rainless, sanserif. | |
-2 letters: airless, aliners, arsines, falsies, farness, finales, finless, fraises, infares, nailers, renails, resails, sailers, salines, serails, serials, silanes. | |
-3 letters: aisles, aliens, aliner, alines, anises, ariels, arisen, arises, arsine, elains, elfins, fainer, falser, falsie, farles, ferial, ferias, filers, filses, finale, finals, flairs, flanes, flares, fliers, frails, fraise, frises, infare, infers, larine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: frailnesses. | |
+3 letters: anglerfishes, familiarness, fatherliness, professional, transfusible, wearifulness. | |
+4 letters: fiberglassing, foolhardiness, fraternalisms, passionflower, professionals, reclassifying. | |
+5 letters: artificialness, familiarnesses, fatherlinesses, formidableness, passionflowers, professionally, profitableness, unprofessional, verifiableness, wearifulnesses. | |
| 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)46 72 61 69 6C 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .- .. .-.. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r a i l n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0061 0069 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408467757880718585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, musevi, ibranice, ibrani |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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