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Definition: Pyromaniac |
PyromaniacNoun1. A person with a mania for setting things on fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | A psychologically unstable and abnormal person with compulsive desire to cause a fire and taking pathological pleasure out of it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac; anarchist, communist, terrorist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pyromaniac |
| English words defined with "pyromaniac": Fire bug. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pyromaniac (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Pyromaniac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pyromaniac" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
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 |
pyromaniac | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pyromaniac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyroman (firebug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pyromaan (firebug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyromaani (firebug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pyromane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pyromane (firebug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυρομανήσ, πυρομανής (firebug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piromane (fire raiser, firebug, incendiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "火" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうかま. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yromaniacpay piromaníaco. (various references) импульсивный поджигатель. (various references) piroman (arsonist). (various references) pirómano (incendiary, pyromaniacal), incendiario (arsonist, incendiary). (various references) pyroman (firebug, incendiary). (various references) piroman, yangın çıkarma manyağı. (various references) người mắc chứng cu"ng phóng hoả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyromaniac": pyromaniacal, pyromaniacs. (additional references) | |
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"Pyromaniac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: petomania, Phromnia, propanoic, pyromanic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n-o-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: panoramic, pyromania. | |
-2 letters: acrimony, armonica, macaroni, marocain, paranoic, rampancy. | |
-3 letters: acromia, acronym, campion, company, crampon, cyprian, manioca, minorca, ocarina, paronym, primacy, rampion. | |
-4 letters: acinar, airman, anomic, anopia, apiary, arnica, caiman, cairny, camion, canary, canopy, carina, carman, cayman, crania, crayon, crimpy, macron, maniac, manioc, marina, micron, myopia, myopic, myrica, paramo, parian, paynim, picara, picaro, piracy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n-o-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: pyromaniacs. | |
+2 letters: incomparably, intracompany, pyromaniacal. | |
+3 letters: panoramically. | |
+4 letters: cinematography. | |
+5 letters: cardiopulmonary, incomparability, pharmacodynamic, phonogramically. | |
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