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Definition: Scatological |
ScatologicalAdjective1. Dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| "Scatological" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scatological" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scatological": scatological language. 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 |
scatological | 10 |
humor scatological | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scatological"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | skatologisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atologicalscay копрологический. (various references) escatológico. (various references) gübreleri araştıran, bok edebiyatı yapan. (various references) копрологічний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Scatological" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escatological, scatalogical, scatelogical, scatilogical, scatologica, sctological. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-l-l-o-o-s-t" | |
-3 letters: collagist, latosolic, scagliola. | |
-4 letters: alogical, catalogs, catcalls, galactic, galliots, galloots, localist, otalgias. | |
-5 letters: alcaics, asocial, calicos, catalog, catalos, catcall, cicalas, citolas, clastic, cloacal, cloacas, coastal, cogitos, galiots, galliot, galloot, galoots, glacial, latigos, latosol, logical, ologist, otalgia, otalgic, solatia, stoical. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-l-l-o-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: eschatological. | |
+4 letters: eschatologically. | |
+5 letters: metapsychological. | |
| 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 63 61 74 6F 6C 6F 67 69 63 61 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c a t o l o g i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0061 0074 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0063 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536967868178817375696778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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