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Definition: Fusil |
FusilNoun1. A light flintlock musket. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fusil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fusil |
| English words defined with "fusil": Fusile. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fusil": Fusiliers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fusil": Circumfusile. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fusil" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (gun, rifle, shotgun, slug, steel), Spanish (carabine, carbine, carbineer, Fusil, gun, rifle). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Fusil à lunette (1972) Fusil chargé (1972) Voto más fusil (1970) El Camarada fusil (1937) | |
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| "Fusil" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Fusil" is used about 18 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 (proper) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fusil": l'homme-fusil. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
fusil gerard | 10 |
chasse de fusil | 8 |
fusil le vieux | 8 |
automatico fusil liviano | 7 |
fusil | 7 |
chasse fusil | 3 |
fal fusil | 3 |
asalto de fusil | 3 |
50 barrett fusil | 3 |
fusil m16 | 2 |
automatique fusil | 2 |
armes feu fusil à | 2 |
16 fusil m | 2 |
fusil nato steyr | 2 |
fusil pompe | 2 |
automatico en español fusil liviano | 2 |
fusil gun vent | 2 |
fusil lebel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fusil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Pushkë Me Strall (flintlock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Лек МуÑкет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Roztavený (molten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hosszúkás Ruta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usilfay fuzil (gun, lighter, rifle), mosquete antigo e leve. (various references) ФузеÑ. (various references) malo vreteno. (various references) Fusil (carabine, carbine, carbineer, gun, rifle). (various references) Lätt Musköt. (various references) ปืนชนิà¸"หนึ่ง. (various references) Tüfek (gun, piece, rifle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fusil": fusile, fusileer, fusileers, fusilier, fusiliers, fusillade, fusillades, fusilli, fusillis, fusils. (additional references) | |
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"Fusil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fabsil, fasal, fasi, fasil, fasolt, Fesik, fisi, fosal, Frumil, fuis, fusa, fuseal, fuseli, fusid, fusille, fusliza, futil, fuzak, fuzal, fuzil, musil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: fils, flus. | |
-2 letters: fil, flu, ifs, lis. | |
-3 letters: if, is, li, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: fluids, fusile, fusils, fuzils, sinful, sulfid. | |
+2 letters: dishful, fibulas, fistful, fistula, flutist, folious, foliums, fulfils, fusible, fusibly, fusilli, fussily, fustily, ingulfs, kistful, skilful, skinful, subfile, sulfide, sulfids, sulfite, tinfuls, uplifts, wishful, wistful. | |
+3 letters: alfaquis, basinful, blissful, bluefins, bluefish, dishfuls, disulfid, emulsify, fabulist, failures, fistfuls, fistulae, fistular, fistulas, flautist, floruits, flourish, fluerics, fluidics, fluidise, flukiest, flunkies, fluorids, fluorins, flurries, flushing, flutiest, flutings, flutists, fluxions, foulings, fulfills, fulmines, funicles, fusileer, fusilier, fusillis, gulfiest, influxes, kistfuls, lucifers, lumpfish, lungfish, lutefisk, moistful, outflies, pailfuls, pailsful, pipefuls, siffleur, sinfully, skillful, skinfuls, sluffing, snuffily, spiteful, stickful, stuffily, stultify, subfield, subfiles, subfluid, suffixal, sulfides, sulfinyl, sulfites, sulfitic, sulfonic, sulfuric, surflike, tristful, uglifies, unsinful, upflings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 73 69 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- ... .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u s i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 0073 0069 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087857578 |
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