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Definition: Pastis |
PastisNoun1. Similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pastis is an anise-flavored liqueur from France, typically containing 40-45% alcohol by volume. When absinthe was banned there in 1915, the major absinthe producers (then Pernod and Ricard, who have since merged) reformulated their drink without the banned wormwood component, creating pastis, which remains popular in France today.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pastis."
| "Pastis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pastis" is used about 19 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% | 19 | 80,337 |
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 |
pastis | 48 |
pastis restaurant | 14 |
pastis recette | 8 |
51 pastis | 8 |
nyc pastis | 5 |
pastis restaurant vancouver | 2 |
drink pastis | 2 |
pastis stephan | 2 |
hartford pastis | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pastis": pastises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spaits. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: apsis, aspis, pasts, pitas, satis, spait, spats, spits, tapis. | |
-2 letters: aits, asps, pass, past, pats, pias, piss, pita, pits, psis, psst, saps, sati, sips, sits, spas, spat, spit, taps, tass, tips. | |
-3 letters: ais, ait, apt, asp, ass, its, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, psi, sap, sat, sip, sis, sit, spa, tap, tas, tip, tis. | |
-4 letters: ai, as, at, is, it, pa, pi, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: papists, pasties, pastils, patsies, petsais, pissant, pitsaws, ptisans, rapists, spastic, spitals, tapises. | |
+2 letters: airposts, apostils, baptises, baptisms, baptists, disparts, epistasy, epitases, epitasis, escapist, harpists, impastes, impastos, misparts, palmists, pastiest, pastimes, pastinas, pastises, pastries, pianists, piasters, piastres, pissants, plastics, plastids, potassic, prosaist, protasis, psalmist, puissant, raspiest, sandpits, sapphist, sappiest, soapiest, spaciest, sparsity, spastics, spirants, starship, steapsin, topsails, traipses, upstairs, waspiest. | |
+3 letters: adscripts, airstrips, alpinists, antipress, aphorists, apiarists, apoptosis, aspirants, aspirates, assumpsit, atropisms, autopsies, baptisias, campsites, dioptases, displants, dissipate, dystopias, epiblasts, epistases, epistasis, epistaxes, epistaxis, escapists, hospitals, inaptness, lapidists, mateships, misadapts, mispaints, misplants, pacifists, paganists, panelists, pantsuits, parasites, parodists, partisans, passivate, passivist, passivity, pastelist, pastiches, pastilles, pastiness, pastramis, pastromis, patissier, phallists, pilasters, pinasters, piscators, pistaches, plaisters, plashiest, plastisol, playlists, playsuits, potassium, practises, pristanes, prosaists, psalmists, psaltries, psammites, ptyalisms, saintship, saponites, sapphists, satinpods, satrapies, scotopias, shipmates, slapstick, snappiest, spacesuit, sparkiest, sparriest, speciates, spiccatos, spitballs, spoliates, spritsail, stapelias, starships, steamship, steapsins, subtopias, supinates, swampiest, tailspins, tankships, thespians, tieclasps, tipstaffs, tipstaves, tranships, transship. | |
+4 letters: anapestics, antipastos, antisepses, antisepsis, apologists, apostacies, apostasies, apostatise, apotheosis, appetisers, arhatships, asperities, aspidistra, aspirators, assumpsits, assumption, assumptive, cadetships, caespitose, cathepsins, cisplatins, cityscapes, dispatches, dispersant, disputants, dissipated, dissipater, dissipates, dysplastic, empathises, epinasties, epistasies, fishplates, hypostasis, impuissant, inspissate, mastership, mispatches, outpassing, palimpsest, palletises, paltriness, pantheisms, pantheists, papistries, parasitise, parasitism, passionate, passivated, passivates, passivists, pastelists, pastellist, pasteurise, pasticcios, pastorship, patchiness, patisserie, patissiers, patristics, patronises, peptidases, periplasts, phantasies, pikestaffs, pikestaves, pistachios, pistareens, pityriases, pityriasis, plastisols, pliantness, pluralists, potassiums, prefascist, privatises, privatisms, prostatism, protistans, psalteries, psoriatics, pulsations, rainspouts, rebaptisms, rhapsodist, saintships, sapidities, saprolites, scapolites, scrappiest, semipostal, separatism, separatist, shapeliest, shipmaster, slapsticks, slipstream, sociopaths, spacesuits, spaghettis, spangliest, sparkliest, sparsities, sparteines, spasticity, spearmints, specialest, specialist, spermatids, spirituals, splashiest, spoliators, sprawliest, spritsails, standpipes, steamships, stipulates, strappings, striptease, supinators, suppliants, sympathies, sympathins, sympathise, sympatries, symposiast, tapestries, thaneships, therapists, therapsids, timpanists, transpires, transships, trapezists, tympanists, vanaspatis. | |
+5 letters: absorptions, adiposities, adsorptions, anabaptisms, antiphrases, antiphrasis, antipyreses, antipyresis, antiseptics, apostatised, apostatises, apostatizes, apostleship, appositions, appositives, archpriests, artisanship, ascriptions, asphaltites, asphyxiates, aspidistras, aspirations, assumptions, authorships, baptistries, battleships, capitalises, capitalisms, capitalists, captionless, catalepsies, constipates, disappoints, disparities, dispatchers, dispersants, dissipaters, dissipating, dissipation, dissipative, episcopates, esemplastic, factorships, hospitalise, impassivity, impatienses, inaptnesses, inspirators, inspissated, inspissates, inspissator, interphases, interspaces, landscapist, legateships, manuscripts, masterships, metaphysics, metaplasias, miscaptions, nonplastics, pacificists, palimpsests, palmistries, panegyrists, pantywaists, parasitised, parasitises, parasitisms, parasitizes, parasitoids, parasitoses, parasitosis, parenthesis, paresthesia, parotitises, passivating, passivation, passivities, pastellists, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurizes, pasticheurs, pastinesses, pastoralism, pastoralist, pastorships, patisseries, patriotisms, peasantries, pederasties, pedestrians, pediatrists, peripatuses, peristalses, peristalsis, personalist, pharmacists, physiatrist, physicalist, piquantness, plagiarists, plasterings, plasticenes, plasticines, plasticizes, platyfishes, podiatrists, poinsettias, polygamists, postclassic, pragmatisms, pragmatists, prefascists, prismatoids, privateness, proplastids, prostatisms, prostatitis, proteinases, psittacines, psittacoses, psittacosis, puritanisms, pursuivants, respirators, rhapsodists, salpingitis, saxophonist, scyphistoma, semipostals, senatorship, separations, separatisms, separatists, septenarius, septicemias, shinplaster, shipmasters, slipstreams, sophistical, spallations, spasmolytic, spastically, specialists, specialties, speciations, spermacetis, spessartine, spessartite, sphalerites, spoliations, springtails, standpoints, stephanotis, stewardship, stipulators, stripteaser, stripteases, subprimates, supergiants, supinations, supplicants, supplicates, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, suspiration, sympathised, sympathises, sympathizes, sympetalies, symposiasts, tapersticks, therapeusis, transcripts, transposing, trapeziuses, trespassing, typicalness, usurpations, utopianisms, vasospastic, waitpersons. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a s t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0073 0074 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506785867585 |
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