Sandpit

Definition: Sandpit

Sandpit

Noun

1. A large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug.

Date "sandpit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Sandpit Generals (1971)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Reimahg, From Sandpit to Armament Factory (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Monsters Underneath the Sandpit (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sandpit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Sandpit" is used about 36 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)	97.22%	35	58,339
Noun (proper)	2.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "sandpit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ranishtë (sand), pirg rëre. (various references)

Bulgarian		пясък (grit, sand, wash). (various references)

German		Sandkasten (sand box, sand table, sandbox). (various references)

Greek		σκάμμα (pit). (various references)

Manx		towl geinnee. (various references)

Pig Latin		andpitsay.(various references)

Russian		песчаный карьер. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		peskokop, kutija s peskom (sandbox). (various references)

Spanish		mina de arena, cajón de arena para juegos infantiles (sandbox). (various references)

Swedish		sandtag. (various references)

Turkish		kumluk oyun alanı (sandlot). (various references)

Ukranian		пісочниця (sandbox, sander), піщаний кар'�"р. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sandpit": sandpits. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sandpit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gandipet, Sandaig, sandp, Sandport, sandspit, Sandwip, Sandwirth. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pandits.
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: paints, pandit, patins, pintas, ptisan.
	-2 letters: adits, antis, dints, ditas, inapt, nipas, padis, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, saint, sapid, satin, spait, staid, stain, stand, tains, tapis, tsadi.
	-3 letters: adit, aids, ains, aits, ands, anis, anti, ants, dais, daps, dins, dint, dips, dipt, dita, dits, naps, nipa, nips, nits, padi, pads, paid, pain, pans, pant, past, pats, pian, pias, pina, pins, pint, pita, pits, sadi, said, sain, sand, sati, snap, snip, snit, span, spat, spin, spit, tads, tain, tans, taps, tins, tips.
	-4 letters: ads, aid, ain, ais, ait, and, ani, ant, apt, asp, dap, din, dip, dis, dit, ids, ins, its, nap, nip, nit, pad, pan, pas, pat, pia, pin, pis, pit, psi, sad, sap, sat, sin, sip, sit, spa, tad, tan, tap, tas, tin, tip, tis.
	-5 letters: ad, ai, an, as, at, id, in, is, it, na, pa, pi, si, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: depaints, displant, pintadas, pintados, sandpits, satinpod.
	+2 letters: adaptions, adoptions, antipodes, dipterans, displants, disputant, dystopian, pintadoes, satinpods, standpipe, supinated.
	+3 letters: adsorption, antipodals, disappoint, discrepant, disparting, dispersant, displanted, disputants, handprints, mispainted, misplanted, pantsuited, patronised, pedantries, pedestrian, phantasied, planetoids, postdating, predations, printheads, stampeding, standpipes, standpoint, transpired, upstanding.
	+4 letters: adaptations, adoptianism, adoptionism, adoptionist, adsorptions, anthropoids, antipodeans, constipated, cuspidation, depilations, deputations, despatching, desperation, disappoints, dispatching, dispersants, displanting, disputation, dissipating, dissipation, inaptitudes, inspissated, interpleads, interspaced, landscapist, misadapting, pathfinders, pedestaling, pedestrians, pentaploids, postlanding, predynastic, standpoints, staphylinid, stipendiary, transhipped, unaspirated.
	+5 letters: adaptiveness, adoptianisms, adoptionisms, adoptionists, antependiums, antispending, appendicitis, cuspidations, deportations, depositional, depravations, deprecations, depredations, deprivations, desperations, despoliation, disappointed, discrepantly, dispensation, dispensatory, displacement, disputations, dissipations, duplications, endoparasite, epoxidations, impersonated, indisputable, indisputably, landscapists, meanspirited, miscaptioned, outspreading, palindromist, pathfindings, pedestalling, pentamidines, pentlandites, plantigrades, postaccident, postdeadline, postdiluvian, postprandial, predesignate, predestinate, predicaments, predications, predominates, presidential, propagandist, repudiations, sandpainting, speedboating, standpattism, staphylinids, transpierced, transshipped, trepidations, undisputable.
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