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Light-skinned


Crosswords: Light-skinned

English words defined with "light-skinned": Caucasian race, Caucasoid raceWhite race. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Light-skinned

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Minorities

Panama

In general, light-skinned persons are represented disproportionately in management positions and jobs that require dealing with the public (such as bank tellers and receptionists). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Light-skinned

"Light-skinned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Light-skinned" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Light-skinned

Language Translations for "light-skinned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

光剥皮. (various references)

   

German

  

hellhäutig. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

불빛 벗기는. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ight-skinnedlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Light-skinned

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-i-k-l-n-n-s-t"

-3 letters: delisting, destining, enlisting, indigents, kindliest, kindlings, kingliest, listening, nightside, shielding, sidelight, sklenting, thinkings, tinklings, tinseling.

-4 letters: delights, diligent, dinghies, dingiest, dinkiest, dishlike, enditing, enisling, ensiling, ginniest, heisting, hildings, indigens, indigent, inklings, kiltings, kindling, kinetins, kinglets, kingside, kitlings, knighted, lightens, lignites, likening, lingiest, nestling, nighties, sennight, shending, shieling, shingled, shinnied, sideling, sighlike, skeining.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Light-skinned


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 67 68 74 2D 73 6B 69 6E 6E 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101101 01110011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#45 &#115 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 002D 0073 006B 0069 006E 006E 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46757374861585777580807170

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