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Definition: Subfusc |
SubfuscAdjective1. Devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Subfusc" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Subfusc" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "subfusc": dull sober somber subfusc. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "subfusc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | убит (degraded, grey, murdered, sober, subdued), възтъмен (dimmish), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubfuscsay xám xịt (drab, livid, mousy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-f-s-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: fucus. | |
-3 letters: buss, cubs, cuss, fubs, fuss, subs. | |
-4 letters: bus, cub, fub, sub. | |
-5 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-f-s-s-u-u" | |
+3 letters: subsurface. | |
+4 letters: subsurfaces. | |
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