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Soapsuds

Definition: Soapsuds

Soapsuds

Noun

1. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.

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

Date "soapsuds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Synonyms: Soapsuds

Synonyms: lather (n), suds (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Soapsuds

English words defined with "soapsuds": Kitchen lee. (references)

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Modern Usage: Soapsuds

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Soapsuds Lady (1925)

Soapsuds and Sirens (1917)

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

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Commercial Usage: Soapsuds

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Soapsuds

"Soapsuds" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soapsuds" 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 (plural)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soapsuds

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

soapsuds enema

26

soapsuds

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

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Modern Translation: Soapsuds

Language Translations for "soapsuds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkumë sapuni (lather, suds), flluskë sapuni (soap bubble). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏رغوة الصابون (lather, suds). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сапунена пяна (lather, suds). (various references)

   

Czech

  

mydlinky. (various references)

   

Danish

  

saebevandslavement (soapsuds enema). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کف صابون(suds=). (various references)

   

French

  

mousses de savon, eau savonneuse. (various references)

   

German

  

Seifenlaugen (soap sud). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מי סבון (soap wash), קצף סבון (lather, suds). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szappanos víz habja, szappanos víz (suds), szappanhab (lather, soap suds, suds). (various references)

   

Italian

  

clistere saponato (soapsuds enema). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

石鹸の泡 (lather). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せっけ"のあわ (lather). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kesh heeabinagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oapsudssay

   

Portuguese

  

espuma de sabão (lather, suds), água de sabão (suds). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мыльная пена (suds). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sapunica (lather, suds). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jabonaduras (lather, suds), espuma de jabón (lather, suds). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tvålvatten (soapy water). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ฟองสบู่ (lather, soap bubble). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sabun köpükleri, köpüklü su. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

мильна піна (lather, suds), змилки. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Soapsuds

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-o-p-s-s-s-u"

-2 letters: passus.

-3 letters: apods, dopas, psoas, soaps, sodas, soups, spado, spuds, updos.

-4 letters: ados, apod, asps, daps, dopa, doss, duos, dups, opus, ossa, ouds, pads, pass, pods, puds, puss, saps, sass, soap, soda, sods, sops, soup, sous, spas, spud, suds, sups, suss, udos, upas, updo.

-5 letters: ado, ads, asp, ass, dap, dos, duo, dup, ods.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-o-p-s-s-s-u"
 

+5 letters: pseudoclassic, superstardoms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Soapsuds


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

53 6F 61 70 73 75 64 73

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)

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

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

01010011 01101111 01100001 01110000 01110011 01110101 01100100 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#97 &#112 &#115 &#117 &#100 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0061 0070 0073 0075 0064 0073

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

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

5381678285877085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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