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Slivovitz

Definition: Slivovitz

Slivovitz

Noun

1. Hungarian plum brandy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slivovitz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)


Usage Frequency: Slivovitz

"Slivovitz" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Slivovitz" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slivovitz

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

slivovitz

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Slivovitz

Derivations

Words beginning with "slivovitz": slivovitzes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Slivovitz" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salvavit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Slivovitz"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "slivovitz" (pronounced sli"vuvi'ts)
3-i' t sarmpits, benefits, cockpits, counterfeits, gambits, hypocrites, misfits, obits, outfits, pulpits, pundits, rabbits, retrofits, sophisticates, tidbits, whodunits.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Slivovitz

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-l-o-s-t-v-v-z"

-2 letters: violist.

-4 letters: toils, viols, visit, volti, volts, zitis.

-5 letters: list, lits, lost, loti, lots, oils, silo, silt, slit, slot, soil, soli, tils, toil, viol, volt, ziti, zits.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-l-o-s-t-v-v-z"
 

+2 letters: slivovitzes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Slivovitz


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 69 76 6F 76 69 74 7A

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    ..    ...-    ---    ...-    ..    -    --..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01101001 01110110 01101111 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#118 &#111 &#118 &#105 &#116 &#122

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 0076 006F 0076 0069 0074 007A

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537875888188758692

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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