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Definition: Peppercorn |
PeppercornNoun1. Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peppercorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonym: PeppercornSynonym: pepper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheapness | Gratuity; free quarters, free seats, free admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee; run of one's teeth; nominal price, peppercorn rent; labor of love. |
Condiment | Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento. |
Unimportance | Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Peppercorn |
| Specialty definitions using "peppercorn": Peppercorn Rent. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Peppercorn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Peppercorn" is used about 27 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) | 77.78% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "peppercorn": peppercorn rent. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
peppercorn | 45 |
peppercorn sauce | 27 |
peppercorn recipe sauce | 9 |
club duck peppercorn | 8 |
peppercorn steak | 8 |
peppercorn recipe steak | 5 |
peppercorn restaurant | 4 |
mustard peppercorn | 4 |
peppercorn sauce steak | 3 |
dr peppercorn | 3 |
mark peppercorn | 3 |
szechuan peppercorn | 3 |
peppercorn plant | 3 |
green peppercorn sauce | 3 |
marinade peppercorn | 3 |
city club duck kansas peppercorn | 2 |
boulder peppercorn | 2 |
peppercorn recipe sauce steak | 2 |
peppercorn tree | 2 |
peppercorn wendy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "peppercorn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | piper kokërr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقابل تافه أو أسمي, حب الفلفل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | номинален наем, нещо без всякаква стойност, зърно пипер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 干胡'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrnko pepře. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فلفل دانه , چیزکم بها, ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), دانه فلفل . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | grain de poivre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pfefferkorn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πιπερόκοκκοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ר'יר פלפל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | borsszem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | grano di pepe, granello di pepe nero, cosa insignificante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | berrish phibbyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eppercornpay revólver (gate, gun, peacetime, revolver, turret). (various references) fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), boabã de piper. (various references) зернышко перца, перчинка. (various references) zrno bibera. (various references) grano de pimienta. (various references) pepparkorn. (various references) biber tanesi. (various references) номінальна орендна плата, перчинка. (various references) hội viên tổ danh nghĩa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "peppercorn": peppercorns. (additional references) | |
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"Peppercorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leprehorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-p-p-r-r" | |
-3 letters: cropper, propene. | |
-4 letters: copper, corner, crepon, encore, opener, pepper, pereon, perron, popper, proper, reopen. | |
-5 letters: copen, coper, corer, creep, crepe, crone, crore, pence, ponce, preen, prone, recon, repro, roper. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-p-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: peppercorns. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 70 70 65 72 63 6F 72 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e p p e r c o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0070 0070 0065 0072 0063 006F 0072 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718282718469818480 |
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