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Definition: Sandhopper |
SandhopperNoun1. Small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SandhopperSynonyms: beach flea (n), sand flea (n), sand hopper (n). (additional references) |
| "Sandhopper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Sandhopper" 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) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sandhopper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | sandhüpfer. (various references) | |
Manx | jargan traie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andhoppersay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: hardnose, operands, orphaned, padrones, pandores, propanes, propends, prophase, rhapsode. | |
-3 letters: appends, apposed, apposer, aproned, daphnes, dapsone, dehorns, hadrons, happens, hardens, hoarsen, hoppers, nappers, operand, orphans, padrone, panders, pandore, pardons, perhaps, persona, phrased, ponders, propane, propend, respond, senhora, sharped, sharpen, shopped, shopper, snapped, snapper. | |
-4 letters: adores, adorns, ahorse, anodes, append, appose, aprons, arpens, arseno, ashore, daphne, dapper, dasher, dehorn, denars, dopers, drapes, drones, ephods, ephors, hadron, happed, happen, harden, harped, hasped, herons, hoards, hoarse, hondas, honers, hopers, hopped, hopper, hordes, horned, horsed, napped, napper, nappes, noshed, nosher, operas, oreads, orphan, padres, paeons, pander, papers, pardon, pareos, parsed, parson, pashed, pedros, person, pharos, phased, phoned, phones, phrase, ponder, posher, prosed, radons, raphes, rapped, rappen, rasped, reason, redans, redons, repand, reshod, sander, sapped, sapper, sarode, senhor, senora, seraph, shader, shaped, shapen, shaper, shared, sherpa, shoppe, shoran, shored, snared, snored, soaped, soaper, soared, sonder, sopped, sorned, spader, spared, spored, spread. | |
-5 letters: adore, adorn, aeons, anode, apers, apods, apres, apron, arose, arpen, arson, ashed, ashen, aspen, asper, dares, darns, deans, dears, deash, denar, doers, donas, dopas, doper, dopes, dorps, dorsa, doser, drape, drone, drops, earns, ephas, ephod, ephor, hades, hands, hanse, hards, hared, hares, harps, heads, heaps, heard, hears, herds, herns, heron, heros, hoard, hoars, hoers, honda, honed, honer, hones, hoped, hoper, hopes, horas, horde, horns, horse, hosed, hosen, napes, nappe, nards, nares, neaps, nears, nerds, nodes, nosed, oared, opahs, opens, opera, oread, padre, paeon, paned, panes, paper, pards, pared, pareo, pares, parse, paseo, peans, pears, pedro, pends, peons, pepos, perps, phase, phone, phons, ponds, pones, popes, pored, pores, porns, posed, poser, praos, prase, preps, presa, proas, prods, prone, props, prose, psoae, radon, rands, raped, rapes, raphe, rased, reads, reaps, redan, redon, redos, rends, repos, repps, resod, rheas, roads, roans, roped, ropes, rosed, sadhe, saned, saner, sapor, sarod, sedan, senor, shade, shape, shard, share, sharn, sharp, shear, shend, sherd, shoed, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, shred, snare, sneap, snore, sonar, sonde, spade, spado, spaed, spare, spean, spear, spend, spode, spore. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines, pseudepigraphon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 68 6F 70 70 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. .... --- .--. .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101000 01101111 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d h o p p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0068 006F 0070 0070 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678070748182827184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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