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Suprasegmental

Definition: Suprasegmental

Suprasegmental

Adjective

1. (linguistics) pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound.

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


Crosswords: Suprasegmental

English words defined with "suprasegmental": prosodic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Suprasegmental

DomainTitle

Books

  • Suprasegmental Phonology (Outstanding Dissertation in Linguistics) (reference)

  • The suprasegmental features in Slavonic phonetic typology (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Suprasegmental

"Suprasegmental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Suprasegmental" is used about 16 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
Adjective (general or positive)93.75%1590,616
Noun (proper)6.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%16N/A

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

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Anagrams: Suprasegmental

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-l-m-n-p-r-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: malapertness.

-3 letters: assuagement, plasmagenes, superagents.

-4 letters: augmenters, granulates, guarantees, manageress, nameplates, parentages, parentless, pasturages, pentagrams, plasmagene, pleasanter, superagent, supermales.

-5 letters: ageratums, alertness, almagests, amperages, ampleness, angeluses, angerless, angulates, apartness, argentums, argumenta, arguments, arsenates, asperates, assaulter, assurgent, augmenter, australes, ensamples, estranges, gamesters, gastrulae, gastrulas, grampuses, granulate, greatness, guarantee, gunmetals, lamenters, lamperses, largeness, laureates, malaperts, megastars.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Suprasegmental


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 75 70 72 61 73 65 67 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..-    .--.    .-.    .-    ...    .    --.    --    .    -.    -    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110101 01110000 01110010 01100001 01110011 01100101 01100111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#117 &#112 &#114 &#97 &#115 &#101 &#103 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0075 0070 0072 0061 0073 0065 0067 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5387828467857173797180866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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