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Definitions: Sane |
SaneAdjective1. Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane". 2. Marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SANE | English | Schizophrenia A National Emergency | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SaneSynonym: reasonable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: insane (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sanity | Verb: be sane; Adjective: retain one's senses, retain one's reason. |
Render sane; adj; bring to one's senses, sober. | |
Become sane; Adjective: come to one's senses, sober down. | |
Adjective: sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound, sound-minded; lucid. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sane |
| English words defined with "sane": Everlasting flower ♦ Herself, Himself ♦ sanely ♦ Trundlehead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sane": ENTHUSIAST ♦ THAW. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sane": insane ♦ mien ♦ sainfoin, Sanable, sanity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sane" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (indeed, rationally, really, sensibly, soberly /really, to be sure). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Never. You're too sane and uncomplicated. (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.) Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.) Look, I'm not nor ever will be losing my sanity It's the only thing keeping me sane. (Dead Man's Dream; writing credit: Abner J. Pastoll; Kamma Pastoll) Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) In a world of chaos, wrinkle-free pants keep you sane. (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) | |
Lyrics | Is it any wonder I'm sane at all ("Too Much Time On My Hands"; performing artist: STYX) NOT ONLY WILL YOUR ANSWERS KEEP ME SANE ("Never Ever"; performing artist: All Saints) I'm so sane, it's driving me crazy ("Falling For The First Time"; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) All sane and logical ("Inside Out"; performing artist: Eve 6) I will never be sane ("Father Of Mine"; performing artist: Everclear) | |
Clever | The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. (references; author: Mark Twain) Montana: At least the cows are sane. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sane gaya beomeul jabji (1969) Safe and Sane (1924) A Sane Fourth of July (1911) Bill Hicks: Sane Man (1989) Going Sane (1986) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Carl Gustav Jung | Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. |
Doc Sane | Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. |
Emily Dickinson | Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- . |
Henry Ward Beecher | In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Morocco | Sane and his delegation met with the Prime Minister, as well as media and NGO's. (references) |
Morocco | Sane also urged the Government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for past crimes and abuses. (references) | |
Morocco | Many speakers openly and strongly criticized the Government's human rights record, including the December 2000 banning of three publications and arrest of AMDH activists and JCO protesters in December 2000. In April Amnesty International Secretary General Pierre Sane visited Morocco. (references) | |
Political Economy | Morocco | In April Amnesty International Secretary General Pierre Sane "applauded the progress recorded by Morocco in the field of human rights," although he urged more progress concerning political prisoners and past cases of disappearance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Colin Powell | I think every sane person, to include warriors and especially warriors, hate war, because we see the consequences of war. But when it is necessary to go to war, then you do it, you do it to the best of your ability. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future. |
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| "Sane" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sane" is used about 301 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 301 | 16,714 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sane" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sane | Last name | 1,000 | 18,462 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "sane": be sane. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sane | 81 |
justin sane | 46 |
ministry sane | 35 |
firework safe sane | 33 |
justin lyrics sane | 17 |
aladdin sane | 15 |
being in insane place sane | 6 |
sane sart | 5 |
linux sane | 5 |
nurse sane | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | normal (natural, normal, ordinary, par, regular, standard), në rregull nga mendtë, i arsyeshëm (legitimate, level headed, logical, rational, reasonable, reasoning, sensible), i arësyeshëm (legitimate, level headed, logical, rational, reasonable, reasoning, sensible). (various references) | |
Arabic | سليم العقل (compos mentis, normal, of sound mind), عاقل (discreet, intelligent, judicious, politic, prudent, rational, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sober minded, sound). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смислен (intelligible, meaningful, rational), разумен (discriminate, equitable, intelligent, judicious, level, long-headed, politic, rational, reasonable, responsible, sensible, thinking, understanding, well-judged), нормален (average, normal, ordinary, regular, right, sound, straight), здравомислещ (hardheaded, level headed, right-minded). (various references) | |
Chinese | 腦清楚 , 神志正常. (various references) | |
Czech | rozumný (advisable, rational, reasonable, sensible, understanding, wise), příèetný, duševnì zdravý. (various references) | |
Farsi | معقول (Conscionable, Inexpensive, Rational, Reasonable, Sensible, Subjective, Wise), معتدل (Green, Medium, Middleman, Mild, Moderate, Modest, Sober), سالم (Hale, Healthy, Intact, Lucid, Safe, Salubrious, Sound, Valid, Well, Whole), عاقل (Canny, Sagacious, Sage, Sober, Wise), دارای عقل سلیم . (various references) | |
Finnish | viisas (clever, in one's right mind, judicious, sagacious, sage, wise), tervejärkinen (sound in mind), täysjärkinen (in full possession of one's senses). (various references) | |
French | sensé (sagacious, sage), sain d'esprit (mentally sane), sain (salubrious), raisonnable (sagacious, sage). (various references) | |
German | zurechnungsfähig (compos mentis, of sound mind). (various references) | |
Greek | σώφρονων, σωόσ τασ φρένασ, υγιήσ (able bodied, fit, healthy, sound, well, whole). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפוי ב"עתו (compos mentis, in his right mind, of sound mind). (various references) | |
Hungarian | józan (advised, clear-headed, discrimination, Douce, down to earth, hard-headed, judicious, moderate, philosophic, philosophical, sensible, sober, sound, steady), épelméjű (sound of mind, to be sound of mind). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sehat (bouncing, hale, healthful, healthy, well), bijaksana (discreet, politic, prudence). (various references) | |
Italian | sano di mente (normal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気は確か (be in one's senses, be sane). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きはたしか (be in one's senses, be sane). (various references) | |
Korean | 온건한 (moderate). (various references) | |
Manx | sunt (healthy, sound), slayntoil (genial, healthy, salubrious, sanitary, sound), slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, inviolate, perfect, sheer, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, utter, well, whole), er e cheeayll. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sensato (acceptable, judo, longheaded, prudent, reasonable, right-minded, sagacious, sage, sensible, shrewd, sober minded, staid, well balanced, wise), são de espírito, são (able-bodied, are, Hale, healthful, healthy, laudanum, sound, they are, well balanced, whole, wholesome), razoável (acceptable, fair, live, live-bait, middle-of-the-road, middling, modest, plausible, possible, reasonable, right-minded, sensible, tolerable, tol-lol, within reason). (various references) | |
Romanian | zdravãn (awfully, healthy, mighty, sinewy, sound, soundly, sturdy, terrible, vigorous, whole), teafãr (able bodied, safely, scot free, whole), rezonabil (advised, fair, moderate, possible, rational, reasonable, reasonably), normal (legitimate, natural, normal, ordinariness, ordinary, rated, regular, standard), echilibrat (balanced, equable, equal, even tempered, level, level headed, well balanced), cu mintea sãnãtoasã, cu judecatã sãnãtoasã. (various references) | |
Russian | нормальный (normal, ordinary, standard), здравый (conscious, moderate, sober, sober-sided, sound), здравомыслящий (clearheaded, clear-headed, judicious, man of sense, sober-minded, wholesome). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razuman (intellectual, intelligible, judicious, knowing, level headed, levelheaded, lucid, reasonable, reasonably, reasoned, reasoning, right-minded, sensible), duševno zdrav. (various references) | |
Spanish | sano (able bodied, bonny, good, Hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, integrated, pure-minded, salubrious, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references) | |
Swedish | vid sunt förnuft, klok (advisable, clever, intelligent, judicious, long-headed, politic, prudent, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, shrewd, well advised, wise). (various references) | |
Turkish | makul (acceptable, comprehensible, conceivable, fair, judicious, just, level, logical, moderate, plausible, possible, probable, reasonable, sensible, sober, sober minded), insaflı (conscientious, equitable, fair, just, merciful, right-minded), aklı başında (all there, clear headed, collected, compos mentis, in one's right mind, judicious, level headed, lucid, of sound mind, sedate, sober minded), akla yatkın (earthly, probable, rational, reasonable, sober), akıllıca (cleverly, intelligently, judicious, no-nonsense, sagacious, sensible, shrewd, wisely). (various references) | |
Ukranian | нормальний (average, normal, rational), нехворобливий, здорового глузду. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sảng khoái ôn ho , l nh mạnh (wholesome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sana, sanaballat, sanae, sanam, sani, sanis, sanorum, sanum, sanus, sanusne, sapiens, sapiente, sapientem, sapientes, sapienti, sapientia, sapientibus, sapientior, sapientiorem, sapientis, sapientissimum, sapientissimus, sapientium, sapientius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sane": saned, sanely, saneness, sanenesses, saner, sanes, sanest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sane": insane, tisane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sane": insanely, insaneness, insanenesses, insaner, insanest, tisanes. (additional references) | |
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"Sane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aane, asen, Asna, Asnah, asnea, Asni, asone, eane, esan, esane, Esene, esne, gs-ana, iane, isen, saana, Saanen, Sabe, Sabne, saee, Saen, Saens, saie, saine, saje, sana, sanal, Sanam, sanat, Sanay, Sanaya, sanc, sance, sande, saned, Sanei, Sanel, sanes, sanex, sanez, Sanh, sani, Sanjeev, Sanjek, Sanjeye, Sanke, sann, Sanna, Sannox, sannu, sano, Sanoh, santen, sany, sanz, saone, sayne, saze, scane, seane, sehne, sekne, Senbef, sene, Seneb, senet, Senex, seni, senno, seno, sente, shana, shane, shani, Sianel, sien, sinex, sinje, sinne, sinnen, sinqe, skance, skane, sknee, slane, snaa, snae, snaed, snah, snau, snaue, snaz, snaze, sne, snea, snee, snef, snem, snen, soane, soen, sonae, sone, sonne, spanne, sqan, ssn, stana, sune, sunne, swane, swanee, swannee, zaen, zana, zane, zano, zanu, zene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sane" (pronounced sā"n) |
| 3 | s ā" n | insane, sain. |
| 2 | -ā" n | abstain, alane, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, bane, blain, brain, butane, Cain, campaign, cane, chain, champagne, Champaign, cocaine, complain, constrain, contain, crane, delaine, detain, disdain, domain, drain, entertain, explain, fain, Fane, feign, gain, germane, grain, humane, inane, ingrain, inhumane, Jane, kain, Kane, lain, Lane, legerdemain, main, maintain, mane, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, overtrain, pain, pane, pertain, plain, plane, preordain, profane, rain, refrain, regain, reign, rein, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, Romaine, slain, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, Swain, terrain, Thane, train, twain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ane, ens, nae, sae, sea, sen. | |
-2 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: acnes, aeons, amens, anise, ansae, antes, ashen, aspen, avens, banes, beans, canes, deans, earns, elans, etnas, fanes, hanse, janes, jeans, kanes, lanes, leans, manes, manse, means, mensa, nabes, names, napes, nares, nates, naves, neaps, nears, neats, nemas, panes, peans, saned, saner, sanes, scena, sedan, senna, sensa, sewan, skean, snake, snare, sneak, sneap, spean, stane, usnea, vanes, wanes, weans, yeans. | |
+2 letters: absent, aeneus, agenes, agents, agones, akenes, aliens, alines, amends, aments, amines, anears, aneles, anenst, angels, angers, angles, animes, anises, ankles, anodes, anoles, ansate, answer, antres, anuses, apneas, arenas, arisen, arpens, arseno, arsine, ascend, ascent, ashmen, aspens, assent, astern, atones, axones, azines, beanos, caners, canoes, casein, casern, centas, cleans, cranes, dances, davens, dedans, denars, desand, desman, dewans, easing, elains, elands, enacts, enates, encase, encash, enemas, faenas, fasten, flanes, ganefs, ganevs, gasmen, genoas, gleans, hances, hansel, hanses, hasten, hausen, havens, hennas, hyenas, inanes, incase, insane, inseam, kenafs, kinase, knaves, kneads, ladens, lances, lanose, latens, learns, lemans, lianes, manges, manses, mantes, mavens, menads, mensae, mensal, mensas, mesian, messan, naches, nacres, naevus, naives, naleds, namers, nances, nappes, nausea, navels, navies, oceans, paeans, paeons, paesan, panels, pannes, patens, peasen, pecans, pekans, planes, queans, ramens, rances, ranees, ranges, ravens, reason, redans, remans, resawn, sabine, sadden, sained, saline, sanded, sander, sanely, sanest, sanger, sanies, sansei, sarsen, sateen, savine, sawney, scenas, seaman, seamen, seance, season, seawan, secant, sedans, sejant, semina, senary, senate, sendal, seneca, senega, sennas, senora, sewans, sextan, shaken, shapen, shaven, sienna, silane, skeane, skeans, snaked, snakes, snakey, snared, snarer, snares, snathe, snawed, sneaks, sneaky, sneaps, speans, stamen, stance, staned, stanes, sterna, sundae, tenias, thanes, tineas, tisane, uncase, unease, uneasy, unsafe, unseal, unseam, unseat, usance, usneae, usneas, veenas, vegans, wakens, weason, whenas, xenias, yamens, yearns, yentas, zanies, zazens. | |
+3 letters: absence, absents, accents, acetins, achenes, acinose, acnodes, acumens, addends, adenyls, advents, aeneous, affines, ageings, agendas, agnates, agnizes, agonies, agonise, ainsell, alevins, alexins, aliners, alkanes, alkenes, alkines, alkynes, almners, almsmen, alpines, ambones, ammines, amnesia, amnesic, amnesty, anadems, analyse, anankes, anapest, anatase, ancones, ancress, anemias, anestri, angelus, anglers, aniseed, anisole, anklets, ankuses, anlaces, anlages, anlases, annates, anneals, annexes, anomies, ansated, answers, anthems, anthers, antisex, antlers, antsier, anywise, apnoeas, appends, aptness, arcsine, arenose, arenous, argents, arpents, arsenal, arsenic, arsines, ascends, ascents, asinine, askance, assents, astheny, asunder, atoners, atonies, attends, attunes, augends, aunties, avenges, avenses, avenues, awakens, awnless, badness, baleens, banders, bandies, bangers, bangles, banjoes, bankers, banners, bannets, banshee, banshie, banters, banties, barrens, baseman, basemen, basenji, basined, basinet, batsmen, battens, beacons, beanies, bedamns, bedpans, bemeans, bemoans, benames, bendays, bezants, boranes, brazens, butanes, bynames, cajones, calends, canapes, cancels, cancers, candies, candles, cangues, canines, cankers, cannels, canners, canters, cantles, careens, carnets, carneys, carnies, caseins, caserne, caserns, catenas, caverns, ceasing, censual, centals, cetanes, chaines, chances, changes, chasten, cineast, cinemas, cleanse, coarsen, corneas, cravens, daemons, damners, dampens, dancers, danders, dandies, dandles, dangers, dangles, dankest, danseur, daphnes, dapsone, darkens, darnels, darners, dasheen, daysmen, deacons, deadens, deafens, decanes, decants, deewans, defangs, demands, demeans, denials, dentals, desands, descant, deskman, desmans, destain, detains, donates, duennas, dyspnea, earings, earners, earnest, eastern, easting, eatings, elastin, eluants, elysian, embanks, enables, enamels, enamors, encages, encamps, encased, encases, enchase, encinas, enclasp, endears, endways, enfaces, engages, engrams, enhalos, enigmas, enlaces, enneads, enolase, enrages, enslave, ensnare, ensnarl, entails, entases, entasia, entasis, entraps, enwraps, epinaos, erasing, erasion, errands, errants, espanol, etalons, etamins, etesian, ethanes, eupneas, evanish, evasion, examens, expands, expanse, fadeins, fainest, famines, fancies, fanegas, fanjets, fanners, fannies, fanwise, farness, fascine, fastens, fatness, fattens, fawners, feasing, fiances, finales, flamens, flanges, furanes, gainers, galenas, gamines, ganders, gangers, gangues, gannets, gardens, garners, garnets, gayness, gelants, genevas, germans, glances, glandes, gnashed, gnashes, gnawers, grabens, granges, guanase, guineas, haemins, handles, handsel, handset, hangers, hankers, hankies, hansels, hantles, happens, haptens, hardens, harkens, harness, harshen, hastens, hausens, heavens, hernias, hessian, hetmans, hexanes, hexosan, hoarsen, hyaenas, inanest, incages, incased, incases, infares, ingates, ingesta, inhales, inlaces, inmates, inphase, insaner, inscape, inseams, insnare, instate, instead, intakes, inulase, invades, isatine, jangles, jasmine, jaunces, jessant, joannes, kalends, kamseen, khazens, kinases, kinemas, knawels, krakens, kyanise, lacunes, lagends, lagunes, laments, lancers, lancets, landers, langues, lankest, lanners, lasagne, lateens, latents, lattens, launces, lawines, laxness, leaners, leanest, leasing, leavens, lensman, lesbian, levants, linages, loaners, maddens, madness, maenads, magnets, maidens, malines, manages, manches, maneges, mangels, mangers, mangles, mangoes, manless, manners, mannose, mantels, mantles, manures, manwise, marines, martens, masoned, meaners, meanest, meanies, medians, medinas, medusan, menaces, menages, menials, messans, messman, misname, moaners, monades, nabbers, naggers, naiades, nailers, nailset, naivest, nancies, nannies, napless, nappers, nappies, narcose, nascent, nastier, nasties, natives, natters, natures, nauseas, navvies, nearest, neatens, neatest, nebulas, nectars, negates, newsman, nonages, nosebag, nosegay, notates, novenas, noyades, nuances, nutates, nutcase, oarsmen, octanes, onagers, onstage, oranges, paesani, paesano, paesans, panders, pandies, pangens, paniers, pansies, panties, panzers, parents, pastern, patents, patines, patness, pattens, pavanes, pawnees, pawners, peahens, peanuts, peasant, pechans, pedants, penangs, penates, pentads, persona, petnaps, pineals, pinesap, planers, planets, platens, pneumas, prances, ranches, randies, rangers, rankers, rankest, rankles, ranters, rapines, ratines, rattens, ravines, rawness, reagins, reasons, recanes, recants, reearns, regains, reginas, rehangs, reloans, remains, remands, renails, renames, rennase, rentals, replans, retains, retinas, retsina, sabeing, sabines, saddens, sadness, sagamen, sainted, salient, salines, saltern, saltine, samisen, sanders, sandier, sandmen, sangers, sanicle, sanseis, saphena, sapiens, sapient, sardine, sarment, sarsens, sateens, satinet, saunter, savines, sawneys, scalene, scaleni, scanned, scanner, scanted, scanter, sealant, sealing, seaming, seances, searing, seasons, seating, seawans, seawant, secants, seedman, sejeant, seminal, seminar, senarii, senates, senator, sendals, senecas, senegas, senhora, senopia, senoras, sensate, sensual, seringa, serrano, servant, sestina, sextain, sextans, sextant, shanked, shantey, sharpen, shebang, shebean, sheitan, sideman, siennas, sierran, signage, silanes, sinkage, sinuate, skeanes, slacken, slainte, slander, slanged, slanted, smarten, snacked, snaffle, snafued, snagged, snailed, snakier, snapped, snapper, snarers, snarled, snarler, snashes, snathes, sneaked, sneaker, sneaped, sokeman, sonance, soutane, soybean, spaeing, spancel, spandex, spangle, spaniel, spanked, spanker, spanned, spanner, spawned, spawner, speaned, spelean, spinage, spinate, splenia, stained, stainer, stamens, stances, standee, stander, stanged, stanine, stearin, stengah, sternal, stewpan, sthenia, strange, subdean, subpena, sunbeam, sundaes, surname, swagmen, swanked, swanker, swanned, synapse, synurae, taenias, talents, tameins, tandems, tangles, tankers, tanners, tannest, tanrecs, tansies, tautens, taverns, tawneys, tawnies, teasing, tenaces, tenails, tenants, teopans, tetanus, thenars, tisanes, tolanes, trances, treason, trepans, unasked, unbased, unbears, uncages, uncakes, uncased, uncases, uneases, unlaces, unlades, unleads, unleash, unmakes, unsated, unsaved, unsawed, unseals, unseams, unseats, unspeak, unstate, unswear, usances, usaunce, vahines, vainest, valines, vanners, versant, vinasse, waeness, wahines, wanders, wangles, waniest, wanness, wannest, wanters, wardens, warners, warrens, weakens, weaners, weapons, weasand, weasons, wessand, yarners, yawners, zanders, zaniest, zeatins, zenanas. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0065 |
| 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)53678071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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