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Definition: Spiegel |
SpiegelNoun1. Pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Metallurgy | Used in steel manufacture to de-oxidise and recarburise the iron, and for alloying; it shows a glittering surface on fracture because of the high manganese content, and is imported in the same forms as pig iron. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SpiegelSynonyms: spiegel iron (n), spiegeleisen (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spiegel |
| Non-English Usage: "Spiegel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (looking-glass, mirror, poop, poopdeck, stern), German (escutcheon, glass, lapel, level, looking-glass, mirror, mirrors, panel, reflector, speculum, tab, type area). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Spiegel van Holland (1950) Der Geheimnisvolle Spiegel (1927) Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002) Der Schwarze Spiegel (2000) Magma - Das Girl im Spiegel (1999) | |
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| "Spiegel" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiegel" is used about 15 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 (proper) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "spiegel" 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 |
| Spiegel | Last name | 2,000 | 6,889 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Spiegel Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "spiegel": spiegel iron. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "spiegel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spejljern (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spiegelijzer (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fonte spiegel (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spiegelfloss (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen), Spiegeleisen (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοπτρικός χυτοσίδηρος (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen), χυτοσίδηρος spiegel (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ghisa spiegel (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen), ghisa speculare (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen), ghisa manganesifera (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iegelspay "spiegel". (various references) шпигель (spiegeleisen). (various references) fundicion especular (spiegel iron, spiegeleisen). (various references) gang kính (spiegeleisen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spiegel": spiegeleisen, spiegeleisens, spiegels. (additional references) | |
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"Spiegel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spiege, Spiegl, Sprengel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spiegel" (pronounced spē"gul) |
| 4 | -ē" g u l | beagle, eagle, extralegal, illegal, legal, paralegal, regal. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, entangle, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, prodigal, rectangle, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, Spangle, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: lieges. | |
-2 letters: glees, leges, liege, peels, peise, peles, piles, plies, siege, sleep, slipe, speel, speil, spiel, spile. | |
-3 letters: eels, egis, else, gees, gels, gies, gips, glee, isle, lees, legs, leis, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, peel, pees, pegs, pele, pies, pigs, pile, plie, seel, seep, sipe, slip. | |
-4 letters: eel, els, gee, gel, gie, gip, lee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: espiegle, peelings, sleeping, speeling, spiegels. | |
+2 letters: epilogues, impledges, sleepings. | |
+3 letters: legateship, pedologies, penologies, persiflage, phlegmiest, pilferages, preselling, privileges, respelling, ridgepoles, sweepingly. | |
+4 letters: espaliering, espieglerie, generalship, hemiplegias, hemiplegics, legateships, lipogeneses, lipogenesis, mesopelagic, outsleeping, pedestaling, pelletising, permillages, persiflages, petrologies, phenologies, phylogenies, pigeonholes, plangencies, poltergeist, polygenesis, preblessing, prestigeful, respellings, telescoping. | |
+5 letters: bibliopegies, depressingly, epiglottides, epiglottises, epistemology, escapologies, espiegleries, generalships, glockenspiel, nephrologies, oversleeping, palingeneses, palingenesis, pedestalling, phlebologies, phrenologies, pigeonholers, pleasingness, poltergeists, praxeologies, preselecting, psephologies, replastering, replenishing, sepulchering, sleepwalking, speedballing, speleologies, speleologist, spiegeleisen, telegraphies, telegraphist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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