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Wordsmith

Definition: Wordsmith

Wordsmith

Noun

1. A fluent and prolific writer.

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


Modern Usage: Wordsmith

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Wordsmith (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: Wordsmith

DomainTitle

Books

  • Douglas MacArthur: Warrior As Wordsmith (Great American Orators, No 24) (reference)

  • Dunces, Gourmands & Petticoats (Artful Wordsmith Series) (reference)

  • In Other Words: Making Better Word Choices in American English (Artful Wordsmith Series) (reference)

  • Taking Care of Business: The Dictionary of Contemporary Business Terms (New Artful Wordsmith Series) (reference)

  • The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Words (The Artful Wordsmith Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Usage Frequency: Wordsmith

"Wordsmith" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Wordsmith" is used about 15 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)80%12101,599
Unclassified Items6.67%1339,140
Noun (proper)6.67%1339,140
Noun (common)6.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%15N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wordsmith

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

wordsmith

140

surrealistic wordsmith

10

wordsmith palm

4

awad wordsmith.org

4

witty wordsmith

3

tool wordsmith

2

wordsmith pro

2

anagram wordsmith.org

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wordsmith

Derivations

Words beginning with "wordsmith": wordsmitheries, wordsmithery, wordsmiths. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Wordsmith" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wordsmyth. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Wordsmith"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "wordsmith" (pronounced wer"dsmi'th)
5-d s m i' thGoldsmith.
4-s m i' thblacksmith, coppersmith, locksmith.
3-m i' thcometh.

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

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Anagrams: Wordsmith

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-h-i-m-o-r-s-t-w"

-1 letter: misthrow.

-2 letters: misword, wormish.

-3 letters: dhotis, droits, mirths, modish, rowths, thirds, throws, whorts, widths, wisdom, worths.

-4 letters: dhoti, dhows, dirts, doits, dorms, droit, hoist, horst, midst, mirth, misdo, moist, morts, moths, odist, omits, riots, rotis, rowth, shirt, short, smith, storm, strow, swith, sword, third, throw, tiros, torsi, trims, trios, trois, trows, whids, whims, whirs.

 Words containing the letters "d-h-i-m-o-r-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: wordsmiths.

 

+3 letters: wordsmithery.

 

+5 letters: wordsmitheries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wordsmith


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

57 6F 72 64 73 6D 69 74 68

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)

01010111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011 01101101 01101001 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#114 &#100 &#115 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 0072 0064 0073 006D 0069 0074 0068

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

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

578184708579758674

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INDEX

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


  

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