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Definition: Scrutineer |
ScrutineerNoun1. (British) someone who examines votes at an election. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrutineer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inquiry | Inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc; (curiosity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Scrutineer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrutineer" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scrutineer": scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer. 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 |
scrutineer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrutineer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | наблюдател (bystander, looker, looker on, observer, spectator, watcher), преброител, изследвач. (various references) | |
French | scrutateur (scanner). (various references) | |
German | Wahlprüfer. (various references) | |
Greek | διαλογέασ. (various references) | |
Manx | ronseyder (explorer, forager, ransacker, searcher). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utineerscray.(various references) | |
Romanian | verificator al unui scrutin. (various references) | |
Spanish | escudriñador (scanner, scrutator, scrutinizer), escrutador (inspector of election returns, penetrating, returning officer, scrutator, scrutinizer, searching, teller). (various references) | |
Swedish | röstkontrollant, granskare (examiner, inspector). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уважний дослідник (scrutator), інспектор (inspector, searcher, visitor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrutineer": scrutineers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scrutineer" (pronounced 'Scru`ti*neer'): Carabineer, Carbineer, Mutineer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ceintures, centuries, enuretics, reuniters, turneries. | |
-2 letters: ceinture, censurer, cerusite, crustier, currents, cutesier, enticers, enuretic, esurient, eucrites, insecure, inserter, reciters, recruits, reincurs, reinsert, reinsure, reinters, rentiers, retinues, reuniter, reunites, secretin, sincerer, sinecure, terrines, ureteric. | |
-3 letters: censure, centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cretins, cruiser, curites, current, curries, cutesie, encrust, ensurer, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, eucrite. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: intercourse, scrutineers. | |
+2 letters: countercries, counterfires, intercluster, intercourses, recruitments, reintroduces, resurrecting, resurrection, unrestricted. | |
+3 letters: circumcenters, countersniper, counterstrike, intercultures, recentrifuges, recuperations, resurrections. | |
+4 letters: counterfeiters, counterrallies, countersnipers, counterstrikes, creatureliness, instructresses, neurochemistry, neurosecretion, nonintercourse, reconstructive, resurrectional. | |
+5 letters: antiforeclosure, incorruptnesses, interlacustrine, mercaptopurines, neurosecretions, nonintercourses, perfunctoriness, reconstructible, resurrectionist, thunderstricken. | |
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