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Spyhole

Definition: Spyhole

Spyhole

Noun

1. A hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Spyhole

Synonym: peephole (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Spyhole

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Spyhole

"Spyhole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spyhole" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spyhole

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

spyhole

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spyhole

Language Translations for "spyhole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

шпионка (eyehole, eyelet, peephole). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spioncino (peephole), spia (emissary, indication, informer, light, peephole, spy, squeaker). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yholespay

   

Russian 

  

глазок (bull's-eye, eye, occelli, occellus, peep hole, peep-hole, speculum). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

špijunka (peephole). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mirilla (eyehole, peephole). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gözetleme deliği (Judas, loophole, peep hole). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вічко (eye, eyehole, eyelet, peephole). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khe nhòm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Spyhole

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-p-s-y"

-1 letter: hoyles, poshly.

-2 letters: helos, helps, holes, holey, hopes, hosel, hoyle, hypes, hypos, lopes, phyle, ploys, poesy, poles, polys, sepoy, sheol, shlep, slope, slype, sophy, sylph, yelps.

-3 letters: epos, espy, helo, help, hoes, hole, holp, hols, holy, hope, hops, hose, hoys, hype, hypo, hyps, leys, lope, lops, lose, lyes, lyse, oles, opes, oyes, pehs.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: mesophyl.

 

+2 letters: holotypes, horseplay, hypergols, hypostyle, mesophyll, mesophyls, oxyphiles, phyllodes, phyllomes, playhouse, polyphase.

 

+3 letters: apophyseal, endolymphs, halophytes, haplotypes, hemolymphs, hopelessly, horseplays, hyperbolas, hyperboles, hypostyles, lyophilise, mesophylls, mycophiles, photolyses, photolyzes, playhouses, polyphones, polytheism, polytheist, polythenes, psephology, psilophyte, synaloepha, typhlosole, upholstery, xylophones.

 

+4 letters: copyholders, geophysical, hieroglyphs, horseplayer, hydroplanes, hyperbolist, hyperploids, hypophyseal, lithophytes, lymphocytes, lymphokines, lyophilised, lyophilises, lyophilizes, mesophyllic, methyldopas, monophylies, nympholepsy, nympholepts, petroglyphs, phraseology, phycologies, phyllotaxes, phylloxeras, phylogenies, phytosterol, polychaetes, polychromes, polyhedrons, polymathies, polyphagies, polyphenols, polyphonies, polytheisms, polytheists, prophylaxes, psilophytes, synaloephas, typhlosoles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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