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Definition: Hit-or-miss |
Hit-or-missAdjective1. Dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Hit-or-missSynonym: haphazard (adj). (additional references) |
| "Hit-or-miss" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hit-or-miss" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hit-or-miss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | наугад (at a venture, at hazard, at random, at venture, by guess, hit or miss). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่ระมั"ระวัง (hit-and-miss), โ"ยตามบุญตามกรรม. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-i-m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: missort, mitosis. | |
-3 letters: hoists, horsts, isthmi, miosis, mirths, rishis, shirts, shorts, smiths, storms, tsoris. | |
-4 letters: hists, hoist, horst, hosts, mirth, misos, mists, mitis, moist, morts, mosts, moths, omits, riots, rishi, rotis, shims, shirt, shist, short, shots, shris, smith, sorts, soths, stirs, storm, tiros, torii, torsi, trims, trios, trois. | |
-5 letters: hiss, hist, hits, host, hots. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-i-m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: historicism. | |
+3 letters: chrismations, diastrophism, harmonicists, historicisms, monitorships. | |
+4 letters: chromaticisms, diastrophisms, dichromatisms, heliotropisms, microswitches, misanthropies, radiochemists. | |
+5 letters: biochemistries, chemisorptions, geochemistries, histochemistry, homoeroticisms, lachrymosities, thigmotropisms, trichomoniases, trichomoniasis, trichromatisms, wordsmitheries. | |
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