DORMICE

Definition: DORMICE

DORMICE

Plural

1. Of Dormouse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DORMICE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Crosswords: DORMICE

English words defined with "DORMICE": family Gliridae ♦ Gliridae. (references)

Etymologies containing "DORMICE": Dormouse ♦ Glires. (references)

"DORMICE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "DORMICE" is used about 19 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)	94.74%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

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Language		Translations for "DORMICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Haselmäuse. (various references)

Pig Latin		ormiceday

Thai		หนูชนิ�"หนึ่งมีลักษ�"ะคล้ายกระรอก (พหูพจน์ของdormouse). (various references)

Turkish		fındık fareleri. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	muscardin, Muscardinus avellanarius, RM:mieur calancra. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"DORMICE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aderdice, cormice, Dafriche, demice, Dodmire, domic, Dorice, doriec, Dormael, Dormagen, D'ormale, dormi, dormie, dormite, Dornock, Dromi, Dumycz, Ormisher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-m-o-r"
	-1 letter: dermic, dormie, medico.
	-2 letters: cider, coder, comer, cored, credo, cried, crime, decor, dicer, dimer, domic, medic, micro, mired, moire, riced, rimed.
	-3 letters: cedi, cero, cire, code, coed, coir, come, cord, core, corm, deco, demo, derm, dice, dime, dire, doer, dome, dore, dorm, emic, emir, iced, idem, ired, mice, mire, mode, modi, more, odic.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-m-o-r"
	+1 letter: chromide, coadmire, mediocre, morticed, racemoid.
	+2 letters: chromides, chromized, coadmired, coadmires, comprised, comprized, confirmed, crimsoned, dulcimore, indecorum, microcode, midcourse, misrecord, princedom.
	+3 letters: androecium, democratic, dichromate, dominicker, dormancies, dosimetric, dulcimores, echinoderm, entodermic, hypodermic, ideogramic, immoderacy, indecorums, madreporic, mediocrity, microcodes, micronized, microwaved, miscolored, misericord, misrecords, mordancies, princedoms, proclaimed, recombined, recompiled.
	+4 letters: aerodynamic, aeromedical, audiometric, bichromated, chemisorbed, chrysomelid, compromised, comraderies, comradeship, confirmedly, coredeeming, corrigendum, demarcation, democracies, democratize, demographic, dichromates, dimercaprol, divorcement, dominickers, echinoderms, encrimsoned, endocardium, endomorphic, endothermic, eudiometric, hydrometric, hypodermics, ideogrammic, maledictory, microfilmed, micromethod, microreader, microsecond, misericorde, misericords, misreckoned, misrecorded, modernistic, overclaimed, radiometric, recommitted, reconfirmed, thermoduric, tragicomedy, unconfirmed.
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