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Definition: Sputnik |
SputnikNoun1. A Russian artificial satellite; "Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sputnik" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Space | The first artificial Earth satellite, orbited by the Soviet Union on October 7, 1957, using Korolev's R-7 rocket. ("satellite"). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sputnik |
| Specialty definitions using "sputnik": Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sputnik" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (sputnik), German (sputnik), Italian (sputnik), Spanish (sputnik), Turkish (sputnik). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I remember the days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart. Based on the novel by Tom Clancy.) I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.) It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sedmoj sputnik (1967) Sputnik Speaking (1959) O Homem do Sputnik (1959) cheval et en sputnik À pied (1958) Sputnik Over the Planet (1958) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The State Commission for the Sputnik Satellite. Credit: NASA. |  | Sputnik 1. Credit: NASA. |
 | Launch of Sputnik 2. Credit: NASA. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Sputnik" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Sputnik" is used about 17 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) | 76.47% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sputnik": Sputnik-i. | |
Ending with "sputnik": post-sputnik. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sputnik"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sputnik, satelit artificial (satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السبوتنيك قمر صناعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | изкуствен спътник (satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | umìlá družice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ماهواره (Satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spoutnik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sputnik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπούτνικ, δορυφόροσ (satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לוין (satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szputnyik (artificial earth satellite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sputnik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ス"ンドル油 (souffle, Sphinx, spindle oil, splice, spline, spool, spooler, spoon, spoon-feeding, staple fiber, sub-economizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スプートニク . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utnikspay satélite (moon, satellite). (various references) спутник (companion, fellow traveller, fellow-traveller, satellite). (various references) sputnjik. (various references) sputnik. (various references) "าวเทียม"วงแรกของโลกที่ไปอวกาศ. (various references) sputnik. (various references) супутник (moon, satellite). (various references) vệ tinh nhân tạo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sputnik": sputniks. (additional references) | |
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"Sputnik" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Putinki, Putnik, Saposnik, sputnic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sputnik" (pronounced spu"tnik) |
| 4 | -t n i k | beatnik. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, botanic, bubonic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, hallucinogenic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, ovonic, panic, pathogenic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, photogenic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, sonic, splenic, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telegenic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-n-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: inputs, tupiks. | |
-2 letters: input, knits, pinks, pints, punks, punts, situp, skint, spunk, stink, stunk, suint, tupik, units. | |
-3 letters: inks, kins, kips, kist, kits, knit, nips, nits, nuts, pink, pins, pint, pits, punk, puns, punt, puts, sink, skin, skip, skit, snip, snit, spik, spin, spit, spun, stun, suit, sunk, tins, tips, tuis, tuns, tups. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-n-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: nutpicks, punkiest, sputniks. | |
+2 letters: spunkiest, turnpikes. | |
+4 letters: cuckoopints, groupthinks, outspeaking. | |
+5 letters: bankruptcies, computerniks, outsparkling. | |
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