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Definition: Smidgen |
SmidgenNoun1. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smidgen" was first used: 1845. (references) |
Synonyms: SmidgenSynonyms: iota (n), scintilla (n), shred (n), smidge (n), smidgeon (n), smidgin (n), tittle (n), whit (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Zero | Adjective: not one, not a one, not any, nary a one;not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Smidgen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smidgen" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "smidgen": not a smidgen of. 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 |
smidgen | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "smidgen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقدارکم (Modicum, Morsel, Snatch, Spatter), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Snip, Tract), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Whit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kleine Menge (modicum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kis mennyiség (dribblet, driblet, modicum, modicum of, paucity, trace), darabka (bit, clipping, dab, fleck, fritter, knob, morsel, pat, patch, scrap, slip, snippet, speck, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idgensmay чуточка (dram, dribblet, lick, mite, modicum, nibble, ounce, relish, spot, suspicion, tiny bit), капля (blob, dribble, drop, glob, raindrop). (various references) un poquito (modicum). (various references) จำนวนเล็กน้อย (fraction, hint, ounce, scintilla, smidgin, tincture, tinge). (various references) крапля (bead, blob, dribble, drop, globule, gout, minim, tear), крихітка (bittock, bud, chit, chitterling, dreg, dribblet, poult, tittle). (various references) tí (damn), chút (jot, particle, shadow, suspicion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Scottish | 1300-Modern | smitch. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "smidgen": smidgens. (additional references) | |
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"Smidgen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cumidge, midgen, samwidge, smidg, smidget, smidgin, smidgon, smigen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smidgen" (pronounced smi"jun) |
| 4 | -i" j u n | pigeon, religion. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, antigen, bludgeon, burgeon, carcinogen, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, estrogen, glycogen, gudgeon, halogen, hydrogen, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, plasminogen, region, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: deigns, denims, design, dinges, midges, signed, singed, smidge. | |
-2 letters: deign, deism, denim, dimes, dines, dinge, dings, disme, mends, midge, miens, minds, mined, mines, nides, segni, sengi, singe, snide. | |
-3 letters: deni, dens, dies, digs, dime, dims, dine, ding, dins, egis, ends, engs, geds, gems, gens, gids, gied, gien, gies, gins, idem, ides, megs, mend. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: demising, mendigos, mendings, smidgens, smidgeon. | |
+2 letters: amidogens, demasting, guildsmen, midranges, modelings, smidgeons. | |
+3 letters: besmudging, demonising, designment, dishelming, eigenmodes, embeddings, endogamies, gormandise, humdingers, magnetised, magnitudes, melodising, misaligned, misdealing, misdeeming, misediting, misleading, mismanaged, misreading, missending, mistending, mudslinger, semidrying, smaragdine, smoldering, smudginess, stampeding. | |
+4 letters: abridgments, admeasuring, damascening, decomposing, demolishing, designments, dislodgment, dissembling, dressmaking, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, homogenised, mastheading, methodising, misdefining, misdiagnose, misfielding, misgoverned, misguidance, misjudgment, misordering, mispleading, misspending, modernising, mudslingers, sedimenting, smouldering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 69 64 67 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- .. -.. --. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01101001 01100100 01100111 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m i d g e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 0069 0064 0067 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53797570737180 |
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