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Definition: Vocable |
VocableNoun1. A word that is spoken aloud. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Vocable \Vo"ca*ble\, noun. [Latin expression vocabulum an appellation, designation, name, from vocare to call, from vox, vocis, voice, word: compare to the French expression vocable. See Voice.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: VocableSynonym: spoken word (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Word | Noun: word, term, vocable; name; phrase; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech; (grammar); ideophone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vocable |
| Etymologies containing "vocable": Vocabulary. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vocable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (lemma, term). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
vocable | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vocable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shqiptueshëm (pronounceable), fjalë (agreement, hearsay, language, news, order, promise, report, rumor, rumour, say, speech, term, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вокабула, дума (faith, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wort (keyword, mot, quotation, say so, saying, speech, term, undertaking, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λέξη (orthographic word, word, written word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szó (logo, no go!, term, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fockle (charm, word, word of honour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocablevay vocábulo (expressionism, term, word), relativo a vocábulo. (various references) vocabulã (word), cuvânt (accent, address, advice, catchword, locution, promise, say, sound, speech, teaching, view, word). (various references) вокабула, произносимый. (various references) skup zvukova i slova, reč (speech, word), izgovorljiv (pronounceable). (various references) glosa (gibe, jibe, sneer, word). (various references) sözcük (word), söz (assurance, commitment, committal, engagement, expression, faith, pledge, plight, promise, say, saying, sentence, spiel, statement, talk, term, upon my word, verbalism, voice, word, wordy), kelime (word, wordy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vocable": vocables. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vocable": evocable, irrevocable, revocable. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vocable": irrevocableness, irrevocablenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "vocable" (pronounced 'Vo"ca*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-v" | |
-1 letter: alcove, coeval. | |
-2 letters: above, cable, calve, clave, clove, coble, laevo, vocal. | |
-3 letters: able, alec, aloe, bale, blae, bloc, bola, bole, calo, cave, coal, cola, cole, cove, lace, lave, leva, levo, lobe, loca, love, olea, oval, vale, veal, vela, vole. | |
-4 letters: abo, ace, alb, ale, ave, avo, bal, bel, boa, cab, cel, cob, col, lab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-v" | |
+1 letter: evocable, vocables. | |
+2 letters: coverable, covetable, revocable. | |
+3 letters: overbleach. | |
+4 letters: combatively, conceivable, conceivably, conversable, irrevocable, irrevocably, overbalance, recoverable, subvocalize. | |
+5 letters: discoverable, microwavable, overbalanced, overbalances, overbleached, overbleaches, subvocalized, subvocalizes, vocabularies. | |
| 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)56 6F 63 61 62 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- -.-. .- -... .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o c a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 0063 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56816967687871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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