Masterstroke

Definition: Masterstroke

Masterstroke

Noun

1. An achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery.

Date "masterstroke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Commercial Usage: Masterstroke

Domain	Title
Books	Masterstroke (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Masterstroke [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Masterstroke

"Masterstroke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Masterstroke" is used about 15 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)	93.33%	14	93,893
Noun (proper)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Masterstroke

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
canada masterstroke	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Masterstroke

Language		Translations for "masterstroke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		hat-trick (hat trick). (various references)

Italian		colpo magistrale. (various references)

Pig Latin		asterstrokemay

Serbo-Croatian		majstorski potez (master stroke). (various references)

Spanish		toque magistral, jugada hábil, golpe maestro. (various references)

Turkish		ustaca önlem. (various references)

Ukranian		вдалий хід (coup), завершальний штрих. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Masterstroke

Derivations
	Words beginning with "masterstroke": masterstrokes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Masterstroke"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "masterstroke" (pronounced ma"sterstrō'k)
5	-s t r ō' k	backstroke, keystroke.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Masterstroke

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-m-o-r-r-s-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: rotameters, smatterers.
	-3 letters: keratoses, marketers, remarkets, remasters, rotameter, smatterer, streakers, streamers, teamsters, tetramers.
	-4 letters: armrests, asserter, assertor, assorter, estreats, keratose, maestros, marketer, masseter, mattress, meerkats, oratress, ostmarks, rearmost, reassert, reassort, remakers, remarket, remaster, remorses, remotest, restarts, restates, restokes, restores, retakers, retastes, retreats, roasters, rosettes, rostrate, seamster, serrates, smartest, smatters, smearers, somerset, starkers, starkest.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-m-o-r-r-s-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: masterstrokes.
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