Premiss

Definition: Premiss

Premiss

Noun

1. A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play".

Verb

1. Take something as preexisting.

Date "premiss" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Synonyms: Premiss

Synonyms: assumption (n), premise (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Premiss

Non-English Usage: "Premiss" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (premise).

"Premiss" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Premiss" is used about 45 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)	97.78%	44	51,500
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Expressions using "premiss": major premiss ♦ minor premiss. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "premiss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		premissza (data, datum, premise), előtétel (premise). (various references)

Pig Latin		emisspray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "premiss": premisses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: impress, simpers, spirems.
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: misers, pisser, primes, prises, prisms, remiss, simper, speirs, sperms, spiers, spirem, spires.
	-2 letters: emirs, mires, miser, mises, peris, perms, piers, press, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, priss, rimes, ripes, rises, seism, semis, simps, sipes, sires, speir, sperm, spier, spies, spire.
	-3 letters: emir, imps, ires, isms, mess, mire, mirs, mise, miss, peri, perm, pier.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: emprises, imposers, impresas, impreses, imprests, misparse, pismires, premises, primness, primuses, promises, semipros, spiremes.
	+2 letters: comprises, glimpsers, imposters, impressed, impresses, misparsed, misparses, misphrase, misprices, misprizes, nephrisms, parecisms, premisses, primeness, primroses, promisees, promisers, reimposes, samphires, sapremias, scrimpers, seraphims, shrimpers, simperers, slimpsier, spermines.
	+3 letters: distempers, epicurisms, epimerases, expertisms, grumpiness, hipsterism, impostures, impressing, impression, impressive, impressure, improvises, impureness, mastership, misphrased, misphrases, misreports, pauperisms, peristomes, permission, permissive, persimmons, presentism, presidiums, primnesses, puerilisms, rebaptisms, reemphasis, scrimpiest, semigroups, separatism, shipmaster, shrimpiest, slipstream, spearmints, spermaries, spermatids, spoonerism, superfirms, superminds, superminis, superpimps, sympatries, temporises.
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