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Definitions: Illusionist |
IllusionistNoun1. A person with unusual powers of foresight. 2. Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: IllusionistSynonyms: conjurer (n), conjuror (n), magician (n), prestidigitator (n), seer (n), visionary (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Illusionist |
| Non-English Usage: "Illusionist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (illusionist), Swedish (illusionist, magician). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But that was his job, he was an illusionist. (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The War Illusionist (2001) De Illusionist (1984) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Illusionist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Illusionist" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
illusionist | 72 |
magician illusionist | 38 |
female illusionist | 10 |
gospel illusionist | 6 |
dark eyes illusionist | 5 |
magic illusionist | 4 |
illusionist video | 3 |
illusionist in woman | 2 |
christian illusionist | 2 |
illusionist magic stage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "illusionist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | iluzionist (magician), prestigjiator (conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator), njeri me iluzione, ëndërrimtar (contemplative, daydreamer, dreamy, lotus eater, star gazer, utopian). (various references) | |
Arabic | المضلل (misleading), المخادع (artist, fraud, knave, liar, rook, trickster, wind cheater). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фокусник (conjurer, juggler, magician, mugger, prestidigitator, thaumaturge, trickster, wizard), илюзионист (conjuror, magician, prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Czech | kouzelník (conjurer, conjuror, enchanter, mage, magician, magus, medicine man, sorcerer, spellbinder, wise man, witchdoctor, wizard). (various references) | |
French | illusionniste. (various references) | |
German | illusionist. (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασιοκόποσ (visionary), θαυματοποιόσ (conjurer, magician). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bûvész (conjurer, conjuror, juggler, magician, palmer, prestidigitator, sorcerer). (various references) | |
Manx | kialgeyr (cheat, con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, hypocrite, plotter, schemer, swindler, trickster, twister), drualtagh (captivating, fascinating, glamorous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illusionistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ilusionista (magician), tule transparente, prestidigitador (conjurer, conjuror, counterfeit, juggler, magisterial, palmer, prestige), mágico (conjurer, fairy, magenta, magic, magical, magician, mystical, sorcerer, Warlock, witching). (various references) | |
Romanian | iluzionist (conjuror, magician). (various references) | |
Russian | мечтатель (daydreamer, day-dreamer, dreamer, fancier, knight errant, stargazer), иллюзионист. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iluzionista, opsenar (prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Spanish | ilusionista. (various references) | |
Swedish | illusionist (magician). (various references) | |
Turkish | illüzyonist, sihirbaz (charmer, conjurer, conjuror, mage, magician, sorcerer, Warlock, wise man, witch, wizard), hokkabaz (conjurer, conjuror, juggler, prestidigitator), hayalperest (day dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, escapist, fanciful, imaginative, notional, quixotic, stargazer, vaporous, visionary). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ілюзіоніст, мрійник (castle builder, day dreamer, dreamer, fancier, idealist, stargazer, visionary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người theo thuyết ảo tưởng người hay mơ mộng, người hay mộng tưởng, người hay có ảo tưởng nh ảo thuật. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "illusionist": illusionistic, illusionistically, illusionists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "illusionist" (pronounced i'luw"zhunust) |
| 5 | -u n u s t | abolitionist, abortionist, accompanist, agonist, antagonist, anticommunist, arsonist, botanist, chauvinist, colonist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, determinist, exhibitionist, expressionist, feminist, impressionist, interventionist, isolationist, misogynist, nutritionist, obstructionist, organist, preservationist, protagonist, protectionist, receptionist, reservationist, revolutionist, secessionist, segregationist, unionist. |
| 4 | -n u s t | balloonist, cartoonist, cleanest, columnist, dishonest, earnest, finest, funnest, greenest, gymnast, harnessed, honest, hygienist, internist, keenest, leanest, machinist, meanest, modernist, noncommunist, opportunist, pianist, soonest, sternest, tannest, thinnest, violinist, witnessed. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, absolutist, activist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, anthropologist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, catalyst, cellist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, closest, coldest, colonialist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, direst, dirtiest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exorcist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, idealist, ideologist, immunologist, imperialist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, oboist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservist, resurfaced, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secularist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: illusions. | |
-3 letters: illusion, instills. | |
-4 letters: insouls, instill, instils, insults, lintols, outsins, tonsils. | |
-5 letters: insist, insoul, instil, insult, lintol, outsin, snouts, stills, stulls, suints, sunlit, tonsil. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: illusionists. | |
+2 letters: illusionistic. | |
+3 letters: insolubilities. | |
+4 letters: disillusionment, indissolubility, solubilizations. | |
+5 letters: aluminosilicates, disillusionments. | |
| 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)49 6C 6C 75 73 69 6F 6E 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-.. .-.. ..- ... .. --- -. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l u s i o n i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378788785758180758586 |
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