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Definition: Spot-check |
Spot-checkVerb1. Pick out random samples for examination; make spot checks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Spot-check" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Spot-check" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "spot-check"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 斑点检查. (various references) | |
Korean | 반 검사하십시". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ot-checkspay.(various references) | |
Russian | делать выборочную проверку. (various references) | |
Swedish | stickprov på. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-k-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: petcocks. | |
-2 letters: copecks, petcock, pockets. | |
-3 letters: checks, chocks, chokes, copeck, epochs, pocket, scotch, sketch, socket, tophes. | |
-4 letters: check, chest, chock, choke, chops, chose, cokes, copes, copse, cosec, coset, cotes, echos, epoch, escot, estop, ethos, hecks, hocks, hokes, hopes, ketch, khets, kophs, okehs, pechs, pecks, pesto, phots, pocks, poets, pokes, scope, secco, shock, shote, speck. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-k-o-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: checkpoints. | |
+4 letters: psychokinetic. | |
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