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Penult

Definition: Penult

Penult

Noun

1. The next to last syllable in a word.

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

Note: Penult \Pe"nult\, noun. [Abbreviated from penultima.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Penult

Synonyms: penultima (n), penultimate (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Penult

English words defined with "penult": Properispomenon. (references)
Etymologies containing "penult": Properispomenon. (references)

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Modern Translations: Penult

Language Translations for "penult"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

parafundore, rrokje parafundore (penultimate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предпоследна сричка, предпоследен (before last, last but one, penultimate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραλήγουσα (penultimate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utolsó elõtti szótag, utolsó elõtti (last but one, penultimate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enultpay

   

Portuguese

  

penúltima sílaba, fúria mal contida. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предпоследний слог, предпоследний (last but one, next to the last, penultimate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretposlednji slog, pretposlednji (before last, last but one, next-to-last, penultimate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

penúltima sílaba. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

penultima (penultimate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sondan bir önceki hece (penultimate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

передостанній склад (penultimate), передостанній (last but one, penultimate). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

giáp cuối (penultimate), âm giáp cuối (penultimate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Penult

Derivations

Words beginning with "penult": penultima, penultimas, penultimate, penultimately, penults. (additional references)

Words ending with "penult": antepenult. (additional references)

Words containing "penult": antepenultima, antepenultimas, antepenultimate, antepenultimates, antepenults. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Penult" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pantulf, peenut, Peepul, Pefull, penault, Peniuto, Penkull, pennut, penol, penot, Peulh, Pinguli. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Penult

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-n-p-t-u"

-1 letter: letup, lunet, unlet.

-2 letters: lent, lept, lune, lunt, lute, pelt, pent, pule, punt, tule, tune.

-3 letters: let, leu, net, nut, pen, pet, pul, pun, put, tel, ten, tun, tup.

-4 letters: el, en, et, ne, nu, pe, un, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-n-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: opulent, penults.

 

+2 letters: centuple, patulent, petulant, pleuston, purulent, tumpline, unpolite.

 

+3 letters: bluepoint, blueprint, centupled, centuples, corpulent, inculpate, opulently, penultima, petulance, petulancy, plenitude, plenteous, plentiful, pleustons, profluent, prudently, pulmonate, pungently, quintuple, tumplines, underplot, unplaited.

 

+4 letters: antepenult, antiplague, antiplaque, bluepoints, blueprints, cantaloupe, centupling, conceptual, couplement, houseplant, impudently, inculpated, inculpates, manipulate, multipaned, neutrophil, outleaping, outplanned, outyelping, paniculate, peculating, peculation, penultimas, petulances, petulantly, plateauing, plenitudes, plentitude, pleustonic, plummeting, poultrymen, prenuptial, prudential, pruriently, puberulent, pulmonates, punitively, puzzlement, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet, septupling, sextupling, supplanted, supplanter, supplement, suppletion, underplots, unpleasant, unpolluted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Penult


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

50 65 6E 75 6C 74

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)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01110101 01101100 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#110 &#117 &#108 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0075 006C 0074

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

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

507180877886

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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