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Definitions: Inflectional |
InflectionalAdjective1. Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc.". 2. Expressing grammatical relations by means of affixes or changes in vowels or consonants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: derivational (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Inflectional |
| English words defined with "inflectional": conjugation ♦ declension ♦ grammatical meaning ♦ inflectional morphology, inflectional suffix, Inflective ♦ Latino sine flexione ♦ Synthetical language. (references) |
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| "Inflectional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inflectional" is used about 22 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% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inflectional": highly inflectional ♦ inflectional ending ♦ inflectional languages ♦ inflectional morphology ♦ inflectional suffix. 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 |
inflectional ending | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inflectional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | raaklijn in het buigpunt (inflectional tangent), buigraaklijn (inflectional tangent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tangente d'inflexion (inflectional tangent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | flektiert (flectional, flexional, inflected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλινόμενοσ, κλιτόσ (declinable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ragozó (inflective, inflexional, inflexive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | flessivo (inflexional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | êµ´ì ˆí•˜ëŠ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inflectionalay flexão gramatical (inflexional). (various references) flexivo (inflexional). (various references) formrik (abundant in forms, highly inflectional), flekterande språk (inflectional languages), böjningsändelse (inflectional ending, inflexion). (various references) флективний (inflexional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inflectional": inflectionally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inflectional": noninflectional. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inflectional" (pronounced 'In*flec"tion*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: centillion, inflection. | |
-3 letters: anticline, clintonia, falconine, fellation, fictional, infantile, infection, inflation, lineation. | |
-4 letters: antilife, cliental, conflate, falconet, fellatio, flatline, flection, fontanel, illation, inaction, lanoline, lenition, localite, nicotine, olefinic, tefillin, teocalli. | |
-5 letters: aconite, actinon, alencon, allicin, aloetic, ancient, aniline, anionic, antlion, cannoli, ciliate, collate, confine, coniine, connate, contain, elation, enation, encinal, faction, fictile, fiction, filiate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: confidentially, inflectionally. | |
+3 letters: noninflectional. | |
| 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 6E 66 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. .-.. . -.-. - .. --- -. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f l e c t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438072787169867581806778 |
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