Sargasso

Definition: Sargasso

Sargasso

Noun

1. Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.

Date "sargasso" was first used: 1598. (references)

Etymology: Sargasso \Sar*gas"so\, noun. [from Spanish expression sargazo seaweed.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sargasso

Synonyms: gulfweed (n), sargassum (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sargasso

English words defined with "sargasso": Gulf weed, gulfweed ♦ Sargasso Sea, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
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Domain	Title
Books	Outlanders: Sargasso Plunder (reference) Sargasso (reference) Sargasso of Space (reference) The Sargasso Sea (reference) The Sargasso Sea : an ocean desert (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Wide Sargasso Sea (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sargasso Sea (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Sargasso" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Sargasso" is used about 21 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 (proper)	76.19%	16	87,710
Noun (singular)	23.81%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

Expression using "sargasso": sargasso sea. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "sargasso"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏السرجس طحلب بحري. (various references)

Bulgarian		Саргасово �'одорасло. (various references)

Danish		sargasso, sargassatang (gulfweed, sargasso weed). (various references)

Dutch		sargassowier. (various references)

Finnish		sargassolevä. (various references)

French		sargasse (sargasso weed). (various references)

German		Sargassum, Sargassokraut (gulfweed, sargasso weed), Beerentang (gulfweed, sargasso weed). (various references)

Greek		σάργασσο (gulfweed, sargasso weed), σάργασο, σταφύλι της θάλασσας (gulfweed, sargasso weed), Επιπλέοντα Φύκη, επιπλέοντα φύκια. (various references)

Italian		sargasso (gulfweed, sargasso weed). (various references)

Manx		famlagh (alga, kelp, seaweed, wrack). (various references)

Pig Latin		argassosay.(various references)

Portuguese		sargaço (black tang, bladder fucus, bladder wrack, common black rockweed, gulfweed, sargasso weed, wrack). (various references)

Russian		саргассовая водоросль. (various references)

Spanish		Sargazo (gulfweed, sargasso weed). (various references)

Turkish		Esmer Yosun. (various references)

Ukranian		Саргасова �'одорість, Саргаса. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Sargassum. (various references)
Portugese	1100-Modern	sargasso. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sargasso": sargassos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sargasso" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sagasco, Sagesse, Saragosso, Sarasa, Sarassoro, Sarasusa, Sarginson, Savrasov, Wargasm. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sargasso" (pronounced sÄrga"sō)
3	-a" s ō	basso, lasso.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-o-r-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: agoras.
	-3 letters: agars, agora, grass, gross, ragas, sagas, sagos, saros, soars, soras.
	-4 letters: agar, agas, gars, goas, oars, osar, ossa, raga, rags, saga, sago, sags, sass, soar, sora.
	-5 letters: aas, aga, ago, ars, ass, gar, gas, goa, gor, gos, oar, ora, ors, rag, ras, sag, sos.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-o-r-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: sargassos.
	+4 letters: passageworks.
	+5 letters: ergastoplasms, sarcophaguses.
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