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Definition: Spang |
SpangVerb1. Leap. jerk, bang (dialectal); "Bullets spanged into the trees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
"Spang" is a common misspelling or typo for: sang, slang, span, spank, sprang. |
Synonym: SpangSynonym: bang (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spang |
| Non-English Usage: "Spang" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (buckle, clasp, hook), Scottish (thin plate of metal). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Spang" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spang" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "spang" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Spang | Last name | 300 | 26,030 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
laurette spang | 28 |
spang | 15 |
denmark spang | 7 |
brian spang | 4 |
magnetics spang | 3 |
company spang | 3 |
electronics power spang | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spang"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | drejt e në. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), точно (according to cocker, clean, correctly, directly, exactly, expressly, just, justly, narrowly, nicely, on schedule, precise, prompt, right, sharp, strictly, textually, true, truly, whang), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), право (authorization, claim, clean, directly, due, fair, flush, jurisprudence, jus, law, perquisite, place, pretension, right, slap, smack, straight, straightway, upright). (various references) | |
Czech | hodit (bung, cast, chuck, drop, fling, heave, hurtle, pitch, throw, tip, toss). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angspay.(various references) | |
Russian | прямо (avowedly, bang, direct, directly, endlong, endways, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, plump, point blank, slap, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, straightly, up and down, uprightly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spang": spangle, spangled, spangles, spanglier, spangliest, spangling, spangly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spang" (pronounced spa"ng) |
| 3 | -p a" ng | pang. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pangs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: gaps, gasp, nags, naps, pang, pans, sang, snag, snap, span. | |
-2 letters: asp, gan, gap, gas, nag, nap, pan, pas, sag, sap, spa. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, as, na, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pagans, pangas, prangs, sprang. | |
+2 letters: dognaps, gasping, hangups, hasping, lapsing, padnags, pagings, palings, pangens, parangs, parings, parsing, pashing, passing, pasting, pausing, pavings, penangs, phasing, pinangs, rasping, sapling, sapping, scaping, shaping, soaping, spacing, spading, spaeing, spangle, spangly, sparing, spaying, spinage, sprangs. | |
+3 letters: apanages, apposing, aspiring, campings, campongs, cappings, carpings, clasping, dampings, elapsing, escaping, genipaps, grandpas, graplins, grapnels, grasping, gunplays, gypseian, harpings, kampongs, lapwings, mappings, packings, paddings, paganise, paganish, paganism, paganist, pageants, pairings, palsying, pangenes, pangrams, paragons, parasang, pargings, parkings, partings, passings, pawnages, peonages, phrasing, pingrass, plashing, platings, pleasing, pogonias, praising, probangs, psalming, pshawing, resprang, sampling, saplings, scalping, scamping, scarping, scraping, sharping, slapping, snapping, sneaping, spacings, spaeings, spalling, spamming, spangled, spangles, spanking, spanning, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spatting, spawning, speaking, speaning, speargun, spearing, sphagnum, spinages, splaying, spraying, springal, stamping, stapling, swamping, swapping, tappings, trepangs, upsprang, wingspan, yawpings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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