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Vanillin

Definition: Vanillin

Vanillin

Noun

1. A crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings.

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



Specialty Definitions: Vanillin

DomainDefinitions

Chemical Industry

Methyl protocatechuic aldehyde, odorous element of vanilla which occurs in traces in some brandies. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym by domain: methyl vanillin (chemical industry).

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Crosswords: Vanillin

English words defined with "vanillin": Vanillic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vanillin": methyl vanillin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vanillin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (vanillin).

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Usage Frequency: Vanillin

"Vanillin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vanillin" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Expressions: Vanillin

Expression using "vanillin": methyl vanillin. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "vanillin": vanillin-sweet.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vanillin

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

vanillin

30

ethyl vanillin

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

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Modern Translations: Vanillin

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

Arabic 

  

‏الونيلين مركب كيميائي. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

香草精. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vanillin (methyl vanillin), methylvanillin (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vanilline (methyl vanillin), vanillien (methyl vanillin), vanille-vanilline (methyl vanillin), methylvanilline (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vanilliini (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

French

  

vanilline (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

German

  

Vanillin (methyl vanillin), Methylvanillin (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βανιλλίνη. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vanillin. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vaniglia (methyl vanillin, vanilla). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anillinvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vanilina (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ванилин. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vanilin. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vanilina (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

metylvanillin (methyl vanillin). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ванілін. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vanillin

Derivations

Words beginning with "vanillin": vanillins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vanillin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danilian. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Vanillin"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vanillin" (pronounced vuni"lun)
4-i" l u nBillon, bouillon, penicillin, villain.
3-l u nadrenaline, Alan, Ballon, befallen, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, colon, crestfallen, discipline, elan, fallen, felon, gallon, globulin, gremlin, insulin, javelin, kaolin, Kremlin, lanolin, Magdalen, Marlin, masculine, melon, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, pelon, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, pollen, porcelain, solan, Solon, stolen, stollen, sullen, swollen, talon, Tolan, triathlon, watermelon, woolen, woollen, Zeppelin.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vanillin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-n-v"

-1 letter: villain.

-2 letters: anilin.

-3 letters: anvil, ilial, linin, nival, villa, villi, vinal.

-4 letters: anil, ilia, inia, lain, linn, nail, nill, vail, vain, vial, vill, vina.

-5 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, ill, inn, lav, lin, nan, nil, van, via.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-n-v"
 

+1 letter: anvilling, vanillins.

 

+4 letters: gallivanting, involutional, unavailingly.

 

+5 letters: inventorially, involuntarily.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vanillin


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

56 61 6E 69 6C 6C 69 6E

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)

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

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

01010110 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 006E 0069 006C 006C 0069 006E

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

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

5667807578787580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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