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Definition: Unputdownable |
UnputdownableAdjective1. (of a book etc) so well written and entertaining as to be difficult to put down; "Unless the story is at once as unputdownable to a taxi driver as to a university professor it is not good enough"- Brian Burland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Unputdownable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Unputdownable" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unputdownable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | много увлекателен. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | utdownableunpay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-n-n-o-p-t-u-u-w" | |
-3 letters: outplanned. | |
-4 letters: outbawled. | |
-5 letters: butanone, downbeat, dubonnet, lentando, nonadult, outlawed, pentanol, unatoned, unbolted, unbundle, undoable, undouble, undulant, undulate, unplowed, unwanted, unwonted, wantoned. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 75 74 64 6F 77 6E 61 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. ..- - -.. --- .--. -. .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p u t d o w n a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0070 0075 0074 0064 006F 0077 006E 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808287867081898067687871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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