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Definition: Gateau |
GateauNoun1. Any of various rich and elaborate cakes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Gateau" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gateau" is used about 23 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% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gateau": black forest gateau ♦ cherry gateau ♦ gateau foret noire. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
gateau | 44 |
au chocolate gateau | 15 |
gateau petit | 14 |
gateau recette | 10 |
chocolate gateau | 8 |
anniversary d gateau | 6 |
anniversary gateau | 5 |
basque gateau | 5 |
au fromage gateau | 5 |
fromage gateau | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gateau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | biskotë (biscuit, bisque, cookie, sponge cake). (various references) | |
Arabic | كعكة (bun, cake, dough), مقانق مسكرة صغيرة. (various references) | |
French | gâteau fourré. (various references) | |
German | torte (cake, fancy cake, flan, pie, tart), kuchen (cake, cakes, flan, lump, mud pie). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עו'" (cake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | torta (cake, fancy cake, tart). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ガス焜炉 (background chatter on a soundtrack, chewing gum, gadget, gadget bag, gadolinium, gamelan, gas range, gas station, gasohol, gasoline, gasoline engine car, gasoline stand, GATT, gattable, gavotte, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, glass, glass block, glass wool, governability, gut, guts, guts pose, packing tape, pane, petrol). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ガトー . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ateaugay.(various references) | |
Russian | пирог (pasty, pie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolač (pastry). (various references) | |
Spanish | torta (cake, cookie, cross section, cross-section, disc, disk, dried cake, feeding cake, filter cake, lump, oil cake, oil-cake, oilseed cake, olive cake, pie, press-cake, residue, Scone, stem disc, tart, torte, transverse section), tarta (cake, cakes, pie, tart). (various references) | |
Swedish | tårta (cake, gâteau, pie, tart, trifle). (various references) | |
Thai | เค้ก (cake, gateaux). (various references) | |
Turkish | kremalı pasta. (various references) | |
Ukranian | печиво (bake). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gateau": gateaus, gateaux. (additional references) | |
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"Gateau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agneau, galeae, Gareau, gateaus, gatewau, gattias, gattnar, geteau, getihu, Gettnau, Goreau, Gratiae, marteau, Rasteau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-t-u" | |
-1 letter: agate, tegua. | |
-2 letters: ague, gate, geta. | |
-3 letters: aga, age, ate, eat, eau, eta, gae, gat, get, gut, tae, tag, tau, tea, teg, tug, uta. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, at, et, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gateaus, gateaux. | |
+2 letters: ageratum, angulate, graduate, runagate. | |
+3 letters: ageratums, angulated, angulates, argumenta, catalogue, ciguatera, coagulate, gastrulae, glutamate, graduated, graduates, granulate, gratulate, guarantee, pasturage, runagates. | |
+4 letters: antiplague, autogamies, catalogued, cataloguer, catalogues, ciguateras, coagulated, coagulates, dramaturge, evacuating, evaluating, gastrulate, glutamates, granulated, granulates, gratulated, gratulates, guaranteed, guarantees, guarantied, guaranties, inaugurate, laureating, nauseating, pasturages, plateauing, quarterage. | |
+5 letters: agglutinate, antifatigue, antiplagues, arbitrageur, assuagement, attenuating, autografted, autographed, cataloguers, devaluating, dramaturges, ejaculating, gametangium, gastrulated, gastrulates, glutaminase, inaugurated, inaugurates, nongraduate, quarterages, rectangular, revaluating, strangulate, sugarcoated, thaumaturge, triangulate, uncataloged. | |
| 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)47 61 74 65 61 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- - . .- ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100001 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a t e a u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0074 0065 0061 0075 |
| 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)416786716787 |
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