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Definition: Spume |
SpumeNoun1. Foam or froth on the sea. Verb1. Make froth, become bubbly; "The river foamed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spume" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Synonyms: SpumeSynonyms: foam (v), froth (v), suds (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Noun: bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spume |
| English words defined with "spume": Despumate, Despume ♦ Spumed, Spuming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spume": Cuckoo-Spit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spume": Spoom. (references) |
| "Spume" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spume" is used about 33 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% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spume": spume-streaked, spume-whipped. | |
Containing "spume": rain-water-spume-blood-oil. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spume | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spume"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkumë (fluff, foam, froth, scum, skim, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زبد (bubble, churn, cream, foam, froth, lather, scum), رغوة (foam, froth, head, scum, surf, work, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пяна (foam, froth, head, lather), пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, froth up, fume, lather, scum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pìnit se (effervesce), pìna (foam, froth, lather, scum, skim, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mousse, écumer, écume (spit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schaum (foam, froth, lather, scum, suds, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφρόσ (cream, foam, froth, lather, yeast), αφρίζω (bubble, foam, froth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קצף (fizz, foam, froth, frothiness, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tajték (foam, froth, lather, scum, surf, yeast), hab (foam, froth, mousse, scum, skimmings, surf, yeast), spuma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berbuih (spumous, spumy, yeasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spuma (foam, froth, surf), schiuma (foam, froth, lather, scum, suds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | folt y ven varrey, dredje (sea foam, sea spume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umespay espuma (foam, froth, lather, scum, yeast), escuma (foam, froth, scum). (various references) spumega (foam, froth, scum), spumã (cream, foam, froth, head, lather, scum, suds). (various references) пена (cream, foam, froth, head, lather, scum). (various references) cop (foam, froth). (various references) peniti (foam, ream), pena (foam, lather, mousse, ream, scum, skim, suds). (various references) espuma (floating waste, foam, froth, frothiness, head, lather, meerschaum, scud, scum, spray, surf, surface scum). (various references) skum (dim, dimmish, dusky, fishy, foam, froth, funny, head, phoney, queer, scum, shady, yeast). (various references) ฟอง (bubble, foam). (various references) köpük (feather, foam, froth, head, lather, mousse, scum, skimmings, suds, yeast). (various references) піна (bead, cream, foam, froth, lather, offscum, ream, scum, skim), пінитися (cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, mantle, ream, scum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | spuma, spumam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spume": spumed, spumes. (additional references) | |
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"Spume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soume, spame, spamen, spamer, spamm, spemen, speum, spmd, spude, spuen, spuge, spule, spum, spumen, spumie, spunee, spure, spuse, sume, summe, sumu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: emus, muse, spue, sump, supe, umps. | |
-2 letters: ems, emu, mus, pes, pus, sue, sum, sup, ump, ups, use. | |
-3 letters: em, es, me, mu, pe, um, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: plumes, septum, spumed, spumes. | |
+2 letters: ampules, bumpers, dumpers, guimpes, impetus, impulse, imputes, jumpers, lumpens, lumpers, makeups, metumps, mumpers, muspike, peplums, plenums, plumose, pneumas, presume, pumelos, pumices, pummels, pumpers, repumps, rumples, septums, slumped, spumier, spumone, stumped, stumper, sumpter, supreme, supremo, umpires, uptimes. | |
+3 letters: amplexus, ampoules, amputees, bethumps, bumpiest, campused, campuses, computes, crumpets, crumples, deplumes, displume, dumpiest, dumpster, euphuism, homespun, humpiest, humpless, impulsed, impulses, imputers, jumpiest, lumpiest, murphies, muspikes, perfumes, permutes, plumages, plumbers, plumiest, plummets, plumpens, plumpers, plumpest, plumules, premiums, presumed, presumer, presumes, primuses, pumicers, pummelos, pumpless, replumbs, rumpless, rumpuses, shlumped, spectrum, speculum, spermous, splenium, spumiest, spumones, strumpet, stumpage, stumpers, stumpier, sumpters, sumpweed, superman, supermen, supermom, supremer, supremos, tempuras, thumpers, trumpets, upstream, uptempos, wampuses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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