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Smidge

Definition: Smidge

Smidge

Noun

1. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.

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

 

Synonyms: Smidge

Synonyms: iota (n), scintilla (n), shred (n), smidgen (n), smidgeon (n), smidgin (n), tittle (n), whit (n). (additional references)

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Digital Photo Gallery: Smidge
 

"Spices 1" by Bobbie Osborne
Commentary: "A dash red pepper, a pinch of celery salt, a smidge of dried mustard & bay leaves on a black background. 2003-10-26."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: Smidge

"Smidge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smidge" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smidge

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

smidge

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smidge

Derivations

Words beginning with "smidge": smidgen, smidgens, smidgeon, smidgeons, smidges. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Smidge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camidge, Cumidge, samwidge, smid, smidg, smidget, Smigel. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Smidge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: midges.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-m-s"

-1 letter: deism, dimes, disme, midge.

-2 letters: dies, digs, dime, dims, egis, geds, gems, gids, gied, gies, idem, ides, megs, mids, migs, mise, semi, side.

-3 letters: die, dig, dim, dis, eds, ems, ged, gem, gid, gie, ids, ism, med, meg, mid, mig, mis, seg, sei, sim.

-4 letters: de, ed, em, es, id, is, me, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-m-s"
 

+1 letter: degamis, midgets, midlegs, smidgen, smidges.

 

+2 letters: demigods, demising, digamies, glimpsed, medigaps, mendigos, mendings, misgrade, misguide, misjudge, mislodge, mispaged, smidgens, smidgeon, smudgier.

 

+3 letters: amidogens, decigrams, demasting, demiurges, dirigisme, guildsmen, ideograms, impledges, midranges, misgauged, misgraded, misgrades, misguided, misguider, misguides, misjudged, misjudges, mislodged, mislodges, modelings, semirigid, smidgeons, smudgiest.

 

+4 letters: besmudging, demagogies, demonising, designment, dirigismes, disembogue, dishelming, dogmatizes, eigenmodes, embeddings, endogamies, geometrids, germicides, glamorised, gormandise, humdingers, magnetised, magnitudes, melodising, misaligned, mischarged, misdealing, misdeeming, misediting, misgrafted, misguessed, misguiders, misleading, mislighted, mismanaged, misreading, missending, mistending, mudslinger, scrimmaged, semidrying, smaragdine, smaragdite, smoldering, smudginess, stampeding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Smidge


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

53 6D 69 64 67 65

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 01101101 01101001 01100100 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

S m i d g e

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0069 0064 0067 0065

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

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

537975707371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Digital Art
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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