Dowser

Definition: Dowser

Dowser

Noun

1. Someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water.

2. Forked stick said to indicate underground water or oil.

Specialty Definition: Dowser

Domain	Definition
Public Administration	A person who uses a divining rod to find water. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	DOWSER. Vulgar pronunciation of DOUCEUR. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Dowser

Domain	Title
Books	Earth radiation : the startling discoveries of a Dowser results of research on more than 3000 apartments, houses, and work places : the recognition and correction of geopathic disturbances of sleep, health, and school performance (reference) Everybody's Dowser Book (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Dowser

"Dowser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dowser" is used about 13 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dowser

Modern Translation: Dowser

Language		Translations for "dowser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏قنقن. (various references)

French		sourcier. (various references)

Hungarian		forráskutató. (various references)

Indonesian		tukang ramal. (various references)

Italian		rabdomante (water diviner), guaina dello spinnaker (sally, snuffer, sock, spinnaker sleeve, squeezer, strangler). (various references)

Manx		couylleyder. (various references)

Pig Latin		owserday

Portuguese		vidente (clairvoyant, prophet, seer). (various references)

Russian		искатель воды с лозой. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rašljar. (various references)

Spanish		zahorí. (various references)

Swedish		slagruteman (diviner, water diviner). (various references)

Turkish		çubukla yeraltı suyu arayan kimse, çubukla maden arayan kimse. (various references)

Vietnamese		người dò mạch nước. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Dowser

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dowser": dowsers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dowser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bowser, Djoser, doser, douwse, dowes, dowler, drowser, Duiser, duser, townser, Towser. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Dowser

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dowers, drowse.
	Words within the letters "d-e-o-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: doers, doser, dower, dowse, redos, resod, resow, rosed, rowed, serow, sowed, sower, sword, swore, words, worse.
	-2 letters: dews, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dows, drew, eros, odes, ores, owed, owes, owse, redo, reds, rode, rods, roes, rose, rows, sord, sore, weds, woes, word, wore.
	-3 letters: dew, doe, dor, dos, dow, eds, ers, ode.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: browsed, deworms, downers, dowries, dowsers, drowsed, drowses, powders, redowas, resowed, rewords, rowdies, scowder, strowed, weirdos, weldors, wonders, worsted.
	+2 letters: becrowds, bowlders, chowders, clowders, cowherds, crowders, crowdies, decrowns, dewdrops, dowagers, doweries, drowners, drowsier, endowers, escrowed, frowsted, keywords, redwoods, reendows, reshowed, rosewood, rowdiest, scowders, shadower, showered, sorrowed, sowbread, swordmen, weirdoes, widowers, woodsier, wordages, wordiest, wordless, wormseed, worsened, worsteds.
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