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Tetragram

Definition: Tetragram

Tetragram

Noun

1. A word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system.

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

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tetragram

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

tetragram

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tetragram

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

Bulgarian 

  

четирибуквена дума (tetragrammaton). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etragramtay

   

Vietnamese 

  

từ bốn chữ hình tứ giác, hình bốn cạnh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tetragram

Derivations

Words beginning with "tetragram": tetragrammaton, tetragrammatons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tetragram

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-m-r-r-t-t"

-2 letters: regatta, regmata.

-3 letters: errata, garret, garter, grater, matter, ramate, ratter, target, tartar, tarter.

-4 letters: agate, armer, armet, attar, gamer, grama, grate, great, marge, mater, matte, ramet, rater, rearm, reata, regma, retag, tamer, targe, tarre, tatar, tater, terga, terra, tetra, treat.

-5 letters: agar, ager, agma, area, atma, gama, game, gate, gear, germ, geta, gram, grat, maar, mage, mare, mart, mate, matt, meat, meta, raga, rage, rare, rate, ream, rear, tame, tare, tart, tate, team, tear, teat, term, tram, tret.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-m-r-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: scattergram.

 

+3 letters: magistrature, scattergrams, transmigrate.

 

+4 letters: magistratures, transmigrated, transmigrates.

 

+5 letters: tetragrammaton.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tetragram


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

54 65 74 72 61 67 72 61 6D

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)

01010100 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0074 0072 0061 0067 0072 0061 006D

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

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

547186846773846779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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