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Smidgeon

Definition: Smidgeon

Smidgeon

Noun

1. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.

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


Synonyms: Smidgeon

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

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Usage Frequency: Smidgeon

"Smidgeon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smidgeon" is used about 9 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%9117,287

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smidgeon

Derivations

Words beginning with "smidgeon": smidgeons. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Smidgeon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Midgeod, Migeon, smidgin, smidgion, smidgon, smigeon. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Smidgeon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mendigos.

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

-1 letter: demoing, dingoes, domines, emodins, mendigo, misdone, smidgen.

-2 letters: deigns, demons, denims, design, dinges, dogies, doings, domine, doming, donsie, dosing, egoism, emodin, eonism, genoms, geoids, gnomes, midges, mondes, monied, monies, noised, onside, signed, singed, smidge, soigne.

-3 letters: deign, deism, demon, demos, denim, dimes, dines, dinge, dingo, dings, disme, doges, dogie, doing, domes, dongs, eidos.

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

+1 letter: amidogens, modelings, smidgeons.

 

+2 letters: demonising, eigenmodes, endogamies, gormandise, melodising, smoldering.

 

+3 letters: decomposing, demolishing, dislodgment, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, homogenised, methodising, misdiagnose, misgoverned, misordering, modernising, smouldering.

 

+4 letters: demonologies, demonologist, dimensioning, disembodying, disemboguing, dislodgement, dislodgments, gormandizers, gourmandises, gourmandizes, homesteading, misdiagnosed, misdiagnoses, misknowledge, misrecording.

 

+5 letters: decompressing, demonologists, demonstrating, discommending, disemboweling, dislodgements, domesticating, gonadectomies, misdeveloping, misknowledges, sedimentology.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Smidgeon


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

53 6D 69 64 67 65 6F 6E

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 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#105 &#100 &#103 &#101 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0069 0064 0067 0065 006F 006E

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

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

5379757073718180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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