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Definition: Puzzler |
PuzzlerNoun1. A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puzzler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Synonyms: PuzzlerSynonyms: mystifier (n), puzzle (n). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | This was a puzzler. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Puzzler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puzzler" is used about 11 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) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
puzzler | 34 |
car puzzler talk | 8 |
paradise puzzler | 6 |
math puzzler | 4 |
league national puzzler | 4 |
jigsaw puzzler | 3 |
mind puzzler | 3 |
book great mind mind puzzler teasers | 3 |
crossword puzzler | 3 |
evans maurice puzzler | 3 |
magazine people puzzler | 3 |
puzzler teenpeople.com | 2 |
atlantic puzzler | 2 |
brain puzzler | 2 |
free puzzler software | 2 |
jigsaw puzzler welcome | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "puzzler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | problem i vështirë (hard nut to crack, puzzle), enigmë (enigma, puzzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мъчен въпрос (puzzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nesnadný problém. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwierige Frage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γρίφοσ (charade, puzzle, riddle), δύσλυτο τι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogas kérdés (catch, poser, puzzling question, sticker, teaser, thorny question). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mistero (enigma, mystery, puzzle, secret), enigma (conundrum, enigma, puzzle, riddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uzzlerpay pessoa ou coisa que confunde. (various references) трудная задача (beast of a job, formidable task, hard nut to crack, large order, poser, stumper, tall order, tickler, twister, waffle). (various references) zbunjujuće pitanje. (various references) pega (bad luck, quibble), enigma (enigma, mystery, puzzle, riddle). (various references) förbryllande person. (various references) muamma (conundrum, enigma, mystery, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle), kafa yoran kimse, bilinmez (occult, problem, puzzlement, question, recondite, unknown), anlaşılmaz şey (as clear as mud, puzzlement), akıl ermez kimse. (various references) важка задача, загадкова особа. (various references) vấn đề khó xử, vấn đề khó giải quyết (gordian knot, puzzle), người l m bối rối vấn đề l m bối rối. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puzzler": puzzlers. (additional references) | |
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"Puzzler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kunzler, Penzler, pezzle, pezzoli, Pozzallo, pozzle, pussle, puzzlie, spazzle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puzzler" (pronounced pu"zler) |
| 4 | -u" z l er | guzzler. |
| 3 | -z l er | sizzler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-p-r-u-z-z" | |
-1 letter: puzzle. | |
-2 letters: puler. | |
-3 letters: lure, prez, pule, pure, purl, rule. | |
-4 letters: leu, lez, per, pul, pur, rep, rue. | |
-5 letters: el, er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-p-r-u-z-z" | |
+1 letter: puzzlers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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