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Definition: Prepubescent |
PrepubescentAdjective1. (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: PrepubescentSynonym: prepubertal (adj). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Prepubescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prepubescent" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prepubescent": prepubescents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-n-p-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: persecute, pretences, pubescent, subcenter, tuppences. | |
-4 letters: berceuse, bescreen, besprent, percents, percepts, perpents, precents, precepts, prepense, prepuces, presence, preteens, pretence, pretense, suberect, terpenes, tuppence. | |
-5 letters: becrust, becurse, becurst, beepers, brunets, bunters, burnets, butenes, censure, centers, centres, cuppers, encrust, entrees, neuters, pectens, peepers, penster, percent, percept, perpent, precent, precept, precuts, prepuce, present, preteen, punster, punters. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-e-n-p-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: prepubescents. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01100010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e p u b e s c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0070 0075 0062 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508471828768718569718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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