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Definition: Serendipitous |
SerendipitousAdjective1. Being lucky in finding things you were not looking for. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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 | A "serendipitous" survey of the heavens with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is uncovering ...Credit: NASA. |  | Early magnetic profiles from PIONEER surveys Shows repeating pattern and offset at Mendocino Fracture Zone Serendipitous that survey lines primarily east-west Otherwise magnetic striping would not have showed clearly.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Serendipitous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Serendipitous" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
hal secret serendipitous service society | 9 |
serendipitous | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "serendipitous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | glücklich (blessed, by luck, felicitous, felicitously, fortunate, golden, happily, happy, lucky, palmy, prosperous, providential, through luck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erendipitoussay связанный со счастливым случаем, везучий. (various references) ซึ่งมีโชคดีในการพบสิ่งต้องการโดยบังเอิญ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "serendipitous": serendipitously. (additional references) | |
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"Serendipitous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seredipitous, serendepitous, serendipidous, serendipitios, serendipitious, serendipitis, serendipitou, serendipitoues, serendipitu, serendipituos, serendipituous, serendipitus, serendiptious, serendiptous, serendiputous, serentipitous, serindipitous, serrendiptious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "serendipitous" (pronounced se'rundi"putus) |
| 6 | -i" p u t u s | precipitous. |
| 5 | -p u t u s | impetus. |
| 4 | -u t u s | calamitous, circuitous, duplicitous, emeritus, felicitous, fortuitous, gratuitous, gravitas, prophetess, riotous, solicitous, ubiquitous. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, countess, detritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, fetus, gastritis, glottis, gratis, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, priestess, prospectus, robustas, situs, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: disruptions. | |
-3 letters: depression, desertions, despiteous, disorients, dispersion, dispiteous, disreputes, disruption, dripstones, eruditions, industries, interposed, interposes, neuritides, neuritises, outpressed, perditions, presidents, pteridines, punditries, redeposits, reeditions, spideriest, terpenoids. | |
-4 letters: densities, derisions, desertion, destinies, deuterons, diestrous, dipterous, dirtiness, disinters, disorient, dispenser, disposure, disputers, disrepute, dissenter, disunites, dopesters, dripstone, entropies, erudition, eruptions, indispose, indorsees, interpose, ironsides, isoprenes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: serendipitously. | |
+3 letters: depressurization. | |
+4 letters: depressurizations. | |
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