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Definition: Leaderless |
LeaderlessAdjective1. Lacking a leader; "an leaderless mob running riot in the streets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leaderless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| Synonym by domain: "leaderless" group discussion (public administration). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Leaderless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Leaderless" is used about 28 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) | 92.86% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
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 |
leaderless resistance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leaderless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | æ— é¢†è¢–. (various references) | ||||
German | steuerlos (rudderless), ohne führer, führungslos (unguided, unshepherded), führerlos (driverless, pilotless, without a leader). (various references) | ||||
Manx | gyn leeideilagh. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eaderlesslay | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leaderless" (pronounced lē"derlus) |
| 5 | -d er l u s | odorless, rudderless. |
| 4 | -er l u s | colorless, driverless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, humorless, motherless, paperless, powerless, tireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fearless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-l-l-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: allseeds, leadless, released, releases, resealed. | |
-3 letters: allseed, dealers, earless, eldress, ladlers, leaders, leasers, rassled, release, resales, reseals, resedas, reseeds, resells, sealers, seeders, sellers. | |
-4 letters: alders, allees, dalles, dealer, easels, elders, erased, erases, laders, ladler, ladles, larees, lasers, leader, leased, leaser, leases, leered, lessee, lesser, rassle, reales, reeled, resale, reseal, reseda, reseed, resees, resell, sarees, sealed, sealer, seared, seders, seeder, seeled, seller, selles. | |
-5 letters: aedes, alder, allee, arles, arses, assed, dales, dares, deals, dears, deers, deles, dells, drees, dress, eared, earls, eased, easel, eases, elder, erase, erses, lader, lades, ladle, lards, laree, lares, lased, laser, lases, leads, lears, lease, leers, rales, rased, rases, reads, reals, redes, reeds, reels, resee, sades, sales, sards, saree, seals, sears, seder, seeds, seels, seers, selle, sells, seral, sered, seres, sleds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-l-l-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: leaseholders. | |
+4 letters: deplorableness. | |
+5 letters: electrodialyses. | |
| 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)4C 65 61 64 65 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- -.. . .-. .-.. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a d e r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0064 0065 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716770718478718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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