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Definition: Mystifier |
MystifierNoun1. A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mystifier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonyms: MystifierSynonyms: puzzle (n), puzzler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mystifier |
| Non-English Usage: "Mystifier" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bilk, cheat, fool, Fox, hoax, mystify, puzzle, riddle, take in, trick). |
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 | The world famous self-liberator, Houdini the supreme ruler of mystery will present a grand magical revue in which he will prove himself to be the greatest mystifier that history chronicles which will be seen for the third time on any stage. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Master mystifier, Houdini the greatest necromancer of the age - perhaps of all times--The literary digest. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mystifier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mystifier" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
mystifier | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mystifier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мистификатор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "较mystifier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | mistificatore (hoaxer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystifiermay mistificator (mystificator). (various references) người phỉnh chơi, người l m ra vẻ khó hiểu người đánh lừa, người l m hoang mang người l m ra vẻ bí ẩn, người l m bối rối, người chơi khăm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "mystifier": mystifiers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-m-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: firmest, metrify, miriest, misfire, mistier, rimiest, semifit. | |
-3 letters: feisty, ferity, fermis, merits, misery, misfit, mister, miters, mitier, mitres, refits, remits, resift, rifest, sifter, smiter, strife, stymie, timers. | |
-4 letters: emirs, emits, feist, fermi, fiery, fires, firms, first, frets, fries, frise, frits, items, merit, metis, mires, miser, misty, miter, mites, mitis, mitre, refit, reifs, reify. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-m-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: mystifiers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 79 73 74 69 66 69 65 72 |
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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)-- -.--. ... - .. ..-. .. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y s t i f i e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0079 0073 0074 0069 0066 0069 0065 0072 |
| 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)479185867572757184 |
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