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"SPONGERS" is a plural of: sponger. |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Body boards are made of soft sponge-like material. Definition: People who ride body boards at the beach. Context: Used when referring to those who ride body boards. Social Source: Huntington Beach Surfers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fable Proving That Spongers Are Found in a Drugstore (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Spongers at work. In: "The Sponge Fishery of Florida in 1900" by John N. Cobb. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 166, Plate 7. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "SPONGERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPONGERS" is used about 6 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 (plural) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SPONGERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | паразит (blood-sucker, parasite, pest, sponge, sponger, sucker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SPONGERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spanger, sponcer, spooger, Spooners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: engross, persons, presong, sponger, sponges. | |
-2 letters: genros, gnoses, goners, gorses, gropes, ogress, pengos, person, posers, prongs, proses, segnos, senors, sensor, snores, sponge, spores. | |
-3 letters: genro, gesso, goers, goner, gores, gorps, gorse, grope, gross, noses, ogres, opens, pengo, peons, pesos, pones, pongs, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, press, progs, prone, prong, prose, pross, repos. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: prognoses. | |
+2 letters: newsgroups, oppressing, parsonages, personages, processing, professing, progestins. | |
+3 letters: angiosperms, compressing, fingerposts, gymnosperms, hotpressing, outpressing, overpassing, progressing, progression, redisposing, serpiginous, spongewares, sporogenous, sporogonies, springhouse, superposing, superstrong, topdressing. | |
+4 letters: coprocessing, gossipmonger, petrogeneses, petrogenesis, predisposing, prefocussing, presupposing, progestogens, progressions, repossessing, reprocessing, scuppernongs, sonographers, sonographies, sporogeneses, sporogenesis, springhouses, supersurgeon, topdressings, trypsinogens. | |
+5 letters: angiospermous, coprocessings, decompressing, gentlepersons, gossipmongers, governorships, gymnospermies, gymnospermous, laryngoscopes, morphogeneses, morphogenesis, nasopharynges, nephrologists, personalising, phrasemongers, phrenologists, predigestions, prepossessing, preprocessing, processioning, progesterones, progressional, proselytising, psychosurgeon, scenographers, scenographies, serpiginously, stenographers, stenographies, superimposing, superorganism, supersurgeons, unprogressive. | |
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