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Definition: Frostiness |
FrostinessNoun1. Coldness as evidenced by frost. 2. A silvery-white color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: FrostinessSynonym: hoariness (n). (additional references) |
| "Frostiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frostiness" 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 "frostiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تجمد (freeze, freezing, frost, icing, settle down, solidify), صقيع (freeze, frost, frosting, jack frost, rime), إيذاء بالصقيع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хладност (impersonality, tepidity), мразовитост (frigidity, iciness, wintriness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mrazivost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | griller par le gel (frost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kälte (bleakness, chill, chilliness, chillness, cold, cold spell, coldness, frigidity, iciness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παγερότησ (gelidness, iciness), παγερότητα (bleakness, gelidness, iciness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fagyosság, fagyos modor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rioeeaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostinessfray frigiditate (frigidity), ger (freezing cold, frost), îngheţ (frost). (various references) заиндевелость, поседение. (various references) hladnoća (chilliness, cold, coldness, iciness). (various references) gelidez (chill). (various references) soğukluk (apathy, bleakness, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, coolness, distance, frigidity, frost, ill blood, inclemency, inhospitality, phlegm, standoff, stolidity, wintriness), soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), don (briefs, Don, drawers, freeze, frost, glazed frost, underpants). (various references) tính lânh đạm, sự giá rét tính lạnh nhạt, sự băng giá (iciness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frostiness": frostinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Frostiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crostinos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "frostiness" (pronounced 'Frost"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: frissons, oestrins, rosiness, snifters, softness, sonsiest, stenosis. | |
-3 letters: essoins, estrins, fitness, forests, forints, forties, fosters, frisson, frontes, infests, inserts, nestors, norites, nosiest, oestrin, orients, osseins, resifts, resists, rosiest, seisors, seniors, sensors, session, sifters, sinters, sisters, snifter, softens, softies, sonsier, sorites, sorties, stoners, stonier, stories, strifes, tensors, tossers, trioses. | |
-4 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, estrin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: frostinesses, frothinesses. | |
+3 letters: fractiousness, perfusionists. | |
+4 letters: fortuitousness. | |
+5 letters: flirtatiousness, foresightedness, fractiousnesses, pestiferousness. | |
| 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 6F 73 74 69 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 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r o s t i n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 006F 0073 0074 0069 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40848185867580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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