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Nurturance

Definition: Nurturance

Nurturance

Noun

1. Physical and emotional care and nourishment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Usage Frequency: Nurturance

"Nurturance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nurturance" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nurturance

Derivations

Words beginning with "nurturance": nurturances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nurturance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nuturance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nurturance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-n-r-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: uncurrent.

-3 letters: centaur, currant, current, nurture, uncrate, untruer.

-4 letters: acuter, auteur, canner, canter, carnet, carter, centra, crater, cunner, curare, curate, curran, curter, errant, nature, nectar, nuance, ranter, recant, return, runner, tanner, tanrec, tracer, trance, turner, uncute, unrent, untrue, untune.

-5 letters: acute, anent, antre, caner, carer, caret, carte, cater, centu, crane, crate, cruet, crura, curer.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-n-r-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: nurturances.

 

+4 letters: counterarguing.

 

+5 letters: counterargument, remanufacturing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nurturance


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

4E 75 72 74 75 72 61 6E 63 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..-    .-.    -    ..-    .-.    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#117 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0075 0072 0074 0075 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

48878486878467806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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