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Spelldown

Definition: Spelldown

Spelldown

Noun

1. A contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly.

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


Synonyms: Spelldown

Synonyms: spelling bee (n), spelling contest (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spelldown

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

spelldown

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spelldown

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

Bulgarian 

  

състезание по правопис. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תחרות איות (spelling bee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elldownspay

   

Russian 

  

конкурс на лучшее правописание. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Spelldown

Misspellings

"Spelldown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apeldorn. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Spelldown

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-n-o-p-s-w"

-2 letters: pollens, swollen.

-3 letters: dowels, dwells, endows, lodens, plowed, polled, pollen, sloped, slowed, snowed.

-4 letters: dells, doles, dolls, dopes, dowel, downs, dowse, dwell, endow, enols, enows, lends, lenos, loden, lodes, loped, lopes, losel, lowed, lowes, lowse, nodes, noels, nosed, olden, opens, owned, owsen, pelon, pends, peons, plews, plods, plows, poled, poles, polls, ponds, pones.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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