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Definition: Spring-cleaning |
Spring-cleaningNoun1. The activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spring-cleaning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| "Spring-cleaning" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spring-cleaning" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "spring-cleaning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 春天清洁. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tavaszi nagytakarítás (spring clean). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 봄 청소. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ing-cleaningspray sự quét dọn nh cửa v o mùa xuân. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-i-l-n-n-n-p-r-s" | |
-3 letters: princelings. | |
-4 letters: calipering, crispening, enclasping, engrailing, engraining, ensilaging, ensnarling, gingersnap, inclasping, increasing, penalising, pencilings, pinnacling, preslicing, princeling, realigning, reclasping, replanning, resplicing, spanceling, springeing. | |
-5 letters: anglicise, arginines, cagelings, cisalpine, cleansing, clearings, eclipsing, enlarging, enplaning, ensnaring, escarping, gleanings, graplines, incensing, incliners, insnaring, learnings, licensing, lingering, panelings, parceling, penancing, penciling, piercings, pinnacles, plannings, pliancies, precisian, precising. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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