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Definition: Pentad |
PentadNoun1. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | A ring counter with five stages. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Period of five consecutive days sometimes used in the study of one or several meteorological elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PentadSynonyms: cinque (n), fin (n), five (n), fivesome (n), quint (n), quintet (n), quintuplet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pentad |
| Non-English Usage: "Pentad" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (pentad). |
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| "Pentad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pentad" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
pentad | 5 |
inc pentad | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pentad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | numër pesë, interval pesëvitesh, interval pesëditësh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خمسة (five). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | числото пет, група от пет неща, петвалентен елемент. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pentade, ringtaeller med fem tilstande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pentade, vijftraps ringteller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viisivuorokautisjakso, viisijakoinen rengaslaskuri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pentade, pentad, compteur en anneau cinq étages. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pentade, fünfstufiger Ringzähler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεντάδα (quintet), πενθήμερο (five day week, five-day week), δακτυλοειδής απαριθμητής 5 βαθμίδων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ötnapos idõjárási idõszak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pentade, contatore ad anello a cinque stadi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entadpay pentad, pentacorde, pêntada, o número cinco, grupo de cinco (quintuplet), elemento pentavalente. (various references) cinci zile, cinci ani, cinci (five). (various references) число пять, группа из пяти. (various references) petina (fifth). (various references) pentada, péntada. (various references) pentad, femtal (five), femstegsringräknare, femårsperiod, ämne med valens. (various references) beşlik. (various references) gốc hoá trị năm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pentad": pentads. (additional references) | |
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"Pentad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entad, Entada, Ipsenta, Panchaud, Pantja, pantod, Pegnado, Penand, penat, penate, penax, pendad, peneta, Pennard, Penpad, Pensak, pentam, Pentan, pentandra, pentar, pentas, pentate, pentax, pente, pented, penti, Pentii, pentil, Pentith, pentjak, Pentop, Pentti, Pinctada, pintade, pintado, pintid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: panted, pedant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: adept, anted, paned, pated, paten, taped. | |
-2 letters: ante, aped, date, dean, dent, etna, nape, neap, neat, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pend, pent, tape, tend, tepa. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, dap, den, eat, end, eta, nae, nap, net, pad, pan, pat, pea, ped, pen, pet, tad, tae, tan, tap, tea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: depaint, notepad, painted, pandect, patined, pedants, pendant, pentads, planted. | |
+2 letters: antipode, depaints, dipteran, endplate, notepads, pandects, pantiled, parented, patented, pedantic, pedantry, pendants, pennated, phonated, pinnated, pronated, tamponed, tapenade, unparted, untapped. | |
+3 letters: adeptness, antipodes, appendant, appointed, bepainted, captained, captioned, catnapped, davenport, depainted, departing, dependant, dipterans, endplates, entrapped, explanted, godparent, impainted, implanted, leadplant, paginated, pantdress, partnered, pastedown, patinated, patinized, patterned, pertained, petnapped, pintadoes, planetoid, platooned, predating, predation, printhead, repainted, replanted, standpipe, supinated, tapenades, trapanned, trepanned, trepidant, unadapted, underpart, unpainted, unplaited. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 74 61 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n t a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0074 0061 0064 |
| 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)507180866770 |
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