Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Percale |
PercaleNoun1. A fine closely woven cotton fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "percale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Percale \Per`cale"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | A plain weave, lightweight, piece dyed or printed cotton fabric made of carded yarns, with a firm, balanced construction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Percale |
| English words defined with "percale": close ♦ tight. (references) |
| "Percale" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Percale" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
percale sheet | 38 |
percale | 21 |
cotton percale | 5 |
percale bed sheet | 4 |
fabric percale | 2 |
percale sheet set | 2 |
discount percale bed sheet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "percale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | perkal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хасе (calico), перкал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | perkal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | percale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Perkal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύφασμα (canvas, Cheviot, cloth, fabric, material, stuff, textile, textile gauze, web, weft), περκάλη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | perkál (cambric muslin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | percalle (cambric, gingham). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercalepay percal. (various references) перкаль. (various references) perkal. (various references) percal. (various references) perkal. (various references) sık dokunmuş bez. (various references) перкаль (cambric muslin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "percale": percales. (additional references) | |
Words containing "percale": supercalender, supercalendered, supercalendering, supercalenders. (additional references) | |
| |
"Percale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bercula, Eraclea, Heracla, Parcplac, Peralla, perceaue, percel, Percie, percile, Percomex, Percula, Pericle, pericula, periculo, Perkal, Permaflex, Persae, persalt, Petrocella, Petrocelli, Piercarlo, Pitcaple, Prcela, prescaler, Sersale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: replace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-p-r" | |
-1 letter: carpel, cereal, leaper, parcel, placer, relace, repeal. | |
-2 letters: caper, carle, clear, clepe, crape, creel, creep, crepe, lacer, laree, leper, pacer, paler, parle, peace, pearl, perea, place, recap, repel. | |
-3 letters: acre, alec, alee, aper, cape, care, carl, carp, cepe, cere, clap, crap, earl, lace, leap, lear, leer, pace, pale, pare, peal, pear, peel, peer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: parceled, percales, praelect, preclean, preclear, preplace, replaced, replacer, replaces. | |
+2 letters: calipered, fireplace, parcelled, parfleche, percaline, percolate, praelects, precancel, precleans, preclears, prelacies, preplaced, preplaces, reclasped, replacers, replicase, replicate, specialer. | |
+3 letters: altarpiece, callipered, carpellate, clepsydrae, coleoptera, epicentral, everyplace, fireplaced, fireplaces, leprechaun, operculate, parfleches, percalines, perceptual, percolated, percolates, praelected, precancels, precleaned, precleared, predicable, preethical, premedical, prevalence, recappable, receptacle, recoupable, replicable, replicases, replicated, replicates, screenplay, superclean, superscale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 61 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. .- .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0061 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718469677871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
