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Spang

Definition: Spang

Spang

Verb

1. 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: Spang

Synonym: bang (v). (additional references)

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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).

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Commercial Usage: Spang

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ib Spang Olsens bogarbejder : en bibliografi (reference)

  • Management Classics: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli with a preface by Peter Spang Goodrich (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Spang

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Spang

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SpangLast name30026,030
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spang

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

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.

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Modern Translation: Spang

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.

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Derivations: Spang

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).

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Rhyming with "Spang"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "spang" (pronounced spa"ng)
3-p a" ngpang.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Spang

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.

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

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INDEX

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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