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Definition: Schnauzer |
SchnauzerNoun1. Old German breed of sturdy black or grayish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Schnauzer |
| English words defined with "schnauzer": giant schnauzer ♦ miniature schnauzer ♦ standard schnauzer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Schnauzer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (schnauzer, schnauzers, walrus mustache), Italian (schnauzer). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Robert R. Watson(?) or Robinson(?), kennel master at the White House, with pets of Herbert Hoover, King Tut, a Belgian police dog; Whoopie, a schnauzer; and Englehurst Gillette, a Gordon setter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Schnauzer" by Ana Abreu Commentary: "Schnauzer lying down." |
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| "Schnauzer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schnauzer" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "schnauzer": giant schnauzer ♦ miniature schnauzer ♦ standard schnauzer. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "schnauzer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | schnauzer (schnauzers, walrus mustache). (various references) | |
Italian | schnauzer. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auzerschnay.(various references) | |
Russian | шнауцер. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "schnauzer": schnauzers. (additional references) | |
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"Schnauzer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schnauser, schnauze, Schongauer, Schonhauser, schwarzer, shnauzer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "schnauzer" (pronounced shnou"zer) |
| 3 | -ou" z er | browser, houser, mouser, trouser. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-u-z" | |
-1 letter: raunches. | |
-2 letters: ranches. | |
-3 letters: arches, azures, caners, casern, causer, cesura, chares, chaser, churns, cranes, crazes, encash, eschar, hances, hausen, hazers, naches, nacres, nuchae, rances, raunch, ruches, saucer, search, uncase, usance. | |
-4 letters: aches, acnes, acres, arcus, ashen, aures, azure, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, cause, chare, chars, chase, churn, crane, crash, craze, cruse, crush, cures. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-u-z" | |
+1 letter: schnauzers. | |
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