Nosedive

Definitions: Nosedive

Nosedive

Verb

1. Plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft.

"Nosedive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "Nosedive" is used about 18 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
Noun (singular)	72.22%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	22.22%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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Language		Translations for "nosedive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbritje kulmore, zbret pingul, pikiatë (dive), bie në pikiatë (dive). (various references)

Italian		scendere in picchiata, picchiata (beating, blow, dive, diving, knocking, swoop). (various references)

Pig Latin		osedivenay

Portuguese		vôo picado, hemorragia nasal. (various references)

Russian		резкое падение (slump), пикировать (dart down, dart downwards, dive, fall into a nosedive, pique, swoop down), пикирование (dive, diving, nose dive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pikiranje. (various references)

Spanish		picado vertical, descender en picado, caer de morro, caída de narices. (various references)

Swedish		störtdykning. (various references)

Thai		ไถลลงสู่เบื้องล่าง, การไถลลงสู่เบื้องล่าง. (various references)

Turkish		pike yapmak (dive), pike (dive, diving, pique), hızla inişe geçmek, baş aşağı dalış. (various references)

Ukranian		різкий спад цін, круте пікірування (nose-dip), випивка (boose, booze, damp, pot, potation, wet), пікірувати (dive, pique), піке (quilt, quilting), пиятика (binge, booze, carousal, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, racquet, whoopee). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đâm bổ nh� o. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nosedive": nosedives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nosedive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: naslediye, nosedived, Nuseibeh. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nosedive" (pronounced nō"zdī'v)
3	-d ī' v	endive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-s-v"
	-1 letter: deveins, endives.
	-2 letters: denies, devein, devise, devons, dienes, donees, donsie, dovens, endive, envied, envies, envois, eosine, nevoid, nieves, noised, onside, ovines, seined, sieved, veined, venose, videos, viseed.
	-3 letters: denes, dense, devon, diene, dines, dives, donee, doven, doves, eidos, envoi, eosin, evens, needs, neves, nides, nieve, nodes, noise, nosed, ovens, ovine, seine, seven, sieve.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-s-v"
	+1 letter: nosedives, novelised.
	+2 letters: envisioned, overdesign, voidnesses.
	+3 letters: deviousness, misgoverned, nonadhesive, overdesigns, overinsured, overseeding, previsioned, providences, stevedoring, videophones.
	+4 letters: adenoviruses, bedcoverings, conveyorised, decongestive, denervations, divorcements, dovishnesses, misconceived, nonevidences, overdesigned, overdressing, overindulges, overspending, overstrained, overstridden, undiscovered, voidableness.
	+5 letters: conduciveness, conservatized, demonstrative, denominatives, deviousnesses, divertimentos, eavesdropping, improvidences, misdeveloping, nondeliveries, nondispersive, overdesigning, overnourished, overspreading, rediscovering, rendezvousing, reprovisioned.
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