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Definition: Spring-clean |
Spring-cleanVerb1. Thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When I spring-clean I don't much about (Halifax f.p: The Spider and the Fly; writing credit: Peter Gawler) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Spring-clean" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spring-clean" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "spring-clean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 春天干净. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 봄 청결한. (various references) | ||||
Manx | glenney arree, cur glenney yn arree da. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ing-cleanspray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: enclasping, reclasping, spanceling. | |
-2 letters: cleansing, clearings, escarping, graplines, learnings, panelings, parceling, pinnacles, relapsing, replacing, rescaling, respacing, spanglier. | |
-3 letters: aginners, aligners, calipers, capelins, capering, carlines, carlings, carpings, clangers, clasping, cleaning, clearing, clingers, crannies, creasing, cringles, eanlings, earnings, elapsing, encasing, engrails, engrains, enlacing, escaping, glaciers, glancers, graciles, grannies, grapline, graplins, grapnels, lanciers, leanings, learning, narceins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: relandscaping. | |
+5 letters: supercalendering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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