Hallucinate

Definition: Hallucinate

Hallucinate

Verb

1. Perceive what is not there; have illusions.

Date "hallucinate" was first used: 1604. (references)

Etymology: Hallucinate \Hal*lu"ci*nate\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression hallucinatus, alucinatus, past participle of hallucinari, alucinari, to wander in mind, talk idly, dream.]. (Websters 1913)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In complex partial seizures, the individual may hallucinate, stagger, perform automatic and purposeless movements, or experience impaired consciousness or confusion. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Hallucinate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Hallucinate" is used about 8 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	87.5%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "hallucinate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kam vegime, kam haluçinacione. (various references)

Bulgarian		предизвиквам халюцинации, извиквам халюцинации. (various references)

Chinese		出现幻觉 (hallucinating). (various references)

Czech		halucinovat, mít halucinace. (various references)

German		halluzinieren. (various references)

Greek		έχω παραισθήσεις. (various references)

Hungarian		hallucinál (to hallucinate, to suffer from delusions). (various references)

Korean		환각을 일으키십시�". (various references)

Manx		cur shaghrynys er, branlaadee (confusion, rambling, raving, wandering of mind). (various references)

Pig Latin		allucinatehay.(various references)

Portuguese		dia de todos os santos. (various references)

Romanian		halucina, provoca halucinaţii. (various references)

Russian		галлюцинировать, вызывать галлюцинацию. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		halucinirati. (various references)

Spanish		tener ilusiones, tener alucinaciones, parecer (appear, appear to be, feeling, judgement, judgment, look, look like, mind, opinion, please, read, resemble, say, seem, sound, take off, think, view), alucinar (mistaken, mystify). (various references)

Turkish		halisünasyon görmek, gördüğünü sanmak. (various references)

Ukranian		галюцинувати, викликати галюцинації. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	alyein, halyein. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hallucinate": hallucinated, hallucinates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hallucinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hallucenate, halucinate, helucinate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hallucinate" (pronounced huluw"sunāt)
5	-s u n ā t	vaccinate.
3	-n ā t	khanate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: chatelain, unethical.
	-3 letters: acauline, achenial, achillea, allanite, alliance, analcite, ancillae, anthelia, canaille, canulate, cliental, ethnical, eulachan, heliacal, lacunate, laitance, nautical, tenacula, unlethal.
	-4 letters: acanthi, actinal, alunite, ancilla, anthill, calathi, callant, canella, canthal, canulae, cauline, chaetal, challie, chateau, cutline, ethical, helical, hellcat, lacteal, lactean, lacunae, lacunal, lanital, linecut, lunatic, nucelli, nucleal, thallic, tunicae, tunicle, unlatch, unteach.
	-5 letters: acetal, acetin, actual, acuate, aculei, aecial, althea, alulae, anlace, atelic, auntie, callan, callet, canthi, cantle, canula, catena, catlin, centai, cental, chaeta, chaine, chalet, challa, chaunt, chital, client, clinal, cullet, cuneal, eluant, enatic, entail, ethnic, halite, hantle, heliac, hiatal, incult, inhale, inhaul, inlace, lacuna, lacune, laical, lanate, lancet, launce, launch, lectin, lentic, lentil, lethal, leucin, lichen, lienal, lineal, lintel, lucent, luetic, lunate, luteal, lutein, nautch, nuchae, nuchal, nuclei, nullah, taenia, taille, telial, tenail, thalli, thecal, thenal, thulia, tincal, tineal, tuille, tunica, unciae, uncial, unlace.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: hallucinated, hallucinates.
	+2 letters: authentically.
	+3 letters: unemphatically.
	+4 letters: neuropathically.
	+5 letters: enthusiastically, neurasthenically.
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