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"SUNSPOTS" is a plural of: sunspot. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Sunspots n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?" "Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits in memory. See also phase of the moon. Source: Jargon File. |
Physics | Cooler (and thus darker) regions on the sun where the magnetic field loops up out of the solar surface. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SUNSPOTS |
| English words defined with "SUNSPOTS": active ♦ flare ♦ George Ellery Hale ♦ hale ♦ Maria Mitchell, Mitchell ♦ solar flare. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUNSPOTS": ACTIVE REGION ♦ CORONAL RAIN ♦ Maunder minimum ♦ sunspot cycle. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SUNSPOTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "SUNSPOTS" is used about 28 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 (plural) | 92.86% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sunspots | 119 |
skin sunspots | 12 |
atlanta sunspots | 11 |
international sunspots | 6 |
pacific sunspots | 4 |
flare solar sunspots | 3 |
picture sunspots | 3 |
sunspots treatment | 2 |
realty sunspots | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SUNSPOTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 黑点 (sunspot). (various references) | ||||
German | Sonnenflecke (sun spots). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | unspotssay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"SUNSPOTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unspot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUNSPOTS" (pronounced su"nspÄ'ts) |
| 4 | -p Ä' t s | crackpots, jackpots. |
| 3 | -Ä' t s | apricots, aquanauts, boycotts, ersatz, feedlots, gunshots, kilowatts, mascots, megawatts, potshots, robots, slingshots, snapshots. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: sunspot, tossups, unstops. | |
-2 letters: puntos, putons, snouts, spouts, stoups, tossup, unstop, uptoss. | |
-3 letters: ousts, posts, pouts, punto, punts, puton, snots, snout, soups, spots, spout, stops, stoss, stoup, stuns, tonus. | |
-4 letters: nous, nuts, onus, opts, opus, oust, outs, pons, post, pots, pout, psst, puns, punt, puss, puts, snot, sons, sops, sots, soup, sous, spot, spun. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: assumptions, piteousness. | |
+4 letters: captiousness, conspectuses, sportfulness, subsumptions, suppositions, suspirations. | |
+5 letters: bumptiousness, corruptnesses, impetuousness, misassumption, outspokenness, percussionist, perfusionists, piteousnesses, plenteousness, rapturousness, reassumptions, subscriptions, sumptuousness, superstations, superstitions. | |
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