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Definition: Hide-and-seek |
Hide-and-seekNoun1. A child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Hide-and-seekSynonym: hide and go seek (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hide-and-seek |
| Specialty definitions using "hide-and-seek": Lord Lovel. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hide-and-seek" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hide-and-seek" 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.
| Language | Translations for "hide-and-seek"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | schovávaná. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verstoppertje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kaŝludo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olla piilosilla (play hide-and-seek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jouer cache-cache (play hide-and-seek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bújócska (hide and seek, peek-a-boo, whoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | follaghyn as feddyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ide-and-seekhay прятки (hide and seek). (various references) escondite (cache, concealment, hide, hide and seek, hide out, hideaway, hide-out, hiding place, lurk, stash). (various references) kurragömma (hide and seek). (various references) การเล่นซ่อนหา. (various references) saklambaç oynamak (play hide-and-seek). (various references) gizlenpeзek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-k-n-s" | |
-3 letters: skinhead. | |
-4 letters: aniseed, dandies, dasheen, deadens, deashed, enskied, hankies, kaddish, keddahs, kneaded, shanked, sheened, sheenie, skeined, sneaked. | |
-5 letters: aedine, akenes, danish, dashed, deaden, deaned, dedans, denied, denies, desand, dienes, dinked, dished, disked, eddies, handed, hanked, hankie, headed, heeded, hidden, indeed, keddah, keened, khadis, khedas, kinase, kneads, needed, sadden, sained, sanded, sandhi, seeded, seined. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-k-n-s" | |
+4 letters: kindheartedness. | |
| 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)48 69 64 65 2D 61 6E 64 2D 73 65 65 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100100 01100101 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i d e - a n d - s e e k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0064 0065 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 0073 0065 0065 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42757071156780701585717177 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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