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Definition: Reputedly |
ReputedlyAdverb1. By repute; according to general belief; "fish with reputedly poisonous flesh". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reputedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Reputedly |
| English words defined with "reputedly": Ageratina altissima, Alcaic, Alcaic verse ♦ deerberry ♦ Eupatorium rugosum ♦ ravenala, Ravenala madagascariensis ♦ squaw huckleberry ♦ traveler's tree, traveller's tree ♦ Vaccinium stamineum ♦ white sanicle, white snakeroot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reputedly": connector conspiracy ♦ Databases, Bibliographic, Databases, Factual ♦ LIABUM BONPLANDII, LIABUM CALIENSE, LIABUM IGNIARIUM, LIABUM MEGACEPHALUM, LIABUM NIGROPILOSUM, LIABUM VULCANICUM ♦ Realtime Disk Operating System, RHABDADENIA BIFLORA ♦ uranian opal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Afghanistan | The first extensive American contact with Afghanistan was made by Josiah Harlan, an adventurer from Pennsylvania who was an adviser in Afghan politics in the 1830s and reputedly inspired Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Would be King." After the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1934, the U.S. policy of helping developing nations raise their standard of living was an important factor in maintaining and improving U.S.-Afghan ties. (references) |
Women | Yemen | FGM rarely is reported among Shaf'ai Sunnis, and the Zaydi Shi'a reputedly do not practice it at all. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reputedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Reputedly" is used about 182 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 99.45% | 181 | 22,953 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 182 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "reputedly": guthlac-reputedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reputedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 驰名 (reputed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | angebliche (colorably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωσ νομίζεται, υποθετικώσ (hypothetically, presumably, presumedly, supposedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amint hírlik, állítólag (allegedly, professedly, reportedly, supposedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 평판이 좋게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rere (accordance, accordance law, according to, cater, consonant, order, pursuant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eputedlyray по общему мнению (supposedly). (various references) po opštoj pretpostavci. (various references) enligt allmänna meningen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reputedly" (pronounced rupyuw"tudlē) |
| 5 | -t u d l ē | admittedly, assertedly, belatedly, contentedly, excitedly, heatedly, pointedly, purportedly, repeatedly, reportedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, wholeheartedly. |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, advisedly, allegedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, candidly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, guardedly, markedly, placidly, rapidly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, validly, vividly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: drupelet. | |
-2 letters: erupted, pedlery, peytrel, prelude, reputed, retyped. | |
-3 letters: deeply, depute, deputy, dueler, dupery, eluder, eluted, pedler, pelted, pelter, peltry, perdue, pertly, petrel, preyed, pureed, purely, purled, repled, repute, retype, rudely, teledu, tuyere, yelped, yelper. | |
-4 letters: deter, drupe, duper, duple, elder, elude, elute, erupt, etude, leery, leper, letup, lured, luted, peery, perdu, perdy, peter. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-p-r-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: polyneuritides, reproductively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 75 74 65 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. ..- - . -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p u t e d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0075 0074 0065 0064 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182878671707891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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