Theorise

Definition: Theorise

Theorise

Verb

1. To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps.".

Date "theorise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Synonyms: Theorise

Synonyms: conjecture (v), hypothecate (v), hypothesize (v), speculate (v), suppose (v), theorize (v). (additional references)

"Theorise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Theorise" is used about 27 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	18.52%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Language		Translations for "theorise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		推理 (inferential, reasoning, theorize, Theorized, Theorizing). (various references)

Pig Latin		eorisethay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "theorise": theorised, theorises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: isothere, theories.
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: heister, heriots, heteros, hoister, shortie.
	-2 letters: either, ethers, hereto, heriot, heroes, hetero, horste, hosier, others, reshoe, reshot, resite, reties, soiree, sortie, stereo, theirs, theres, threes, throes, tories, triose.
	-3 letters: erose, ester, ether, ethos, heirs, heist, heres, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, hoist, horse, horst, ither, osier, other, reest, reset, retie, riots, rites, roset, rotes.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: helotries, heterosis, hoteliers, isotheres, otherwise, theorised, theorises, theorizes.
	+2 letters: antiheroes, botcheries, epistrophe, eutrophies, herstories, hostelries, orthoepies, rhinestone, spirochete, theorizers, threnodies, threonines.
	+3 letters: charioteers, cholesteric, epistrophes, erythrosine, foresighted, hectoliters, helicopters, heliometers, heliotropes, hemipterous, heteroecism, heterolysis, lithosphere, northerlies, otherwhiles, overweights, rhinestoned, rhinestones, shergottite, somewhither, southerlies, spirochaete, spirochetes, theocracies, thermopiles.
	+4 letters: antiheroines, apothecaries, endothermies, erythrosines, executorship, frothinesses, geochemistry, heliolatries, hemoproteins, heteroauxins, heteroclites, heterodoxies, heteroecious, heteroecisms, heterogamies, heterogenies, heterogonies, heteronomies, heteroploids, housepainter, housetrained, hypertension, kinetochores, lithospheres, motherliness, neurochemist, neuropathies, orthogenesis, overnighters, overtightens, photometries, prehistories, reauthorizes, rehypnotizes, shergottites, spirochaetes, stereophonic, theobromines, theocentrism, theologizers, thermoclines, thermophiles, thorninesses, titleholders, upholsteries, worthinesses.
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