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Definition: Penult |
PenultNoun1. 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: PenultSynonyms: penultima (n), penultimate (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Penult |
| English words defined with "penult": Properispomenon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "penult": Properispomenon. (references) |
| 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 penúltima sílaba, fúria mal contida. (various references) предпоследний слог, предпоследний (last but one, next to the last, penultimate). (various references) pretposlednji slog, pretposlednji (before last, last but one, next-to-last, penultimate). (various references) penúltima sílaba. (various references) penultima (penultimate). (various references) sondan bir önceki hece (penultimate). (various references) передостанній склад (penultimate), передостанній (last but one, penultimate). (various references) giáp cuối (penultimate), âm giáp cuối (penultimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 75 6C 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. ..- .-.. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110101 01101100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n u l t |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507180877886 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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