Edelweiss

Definition: Edelweiss

Edelweiss

Noun

1. Alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts.

Date "edelweiss" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Etymology: Edelweiss \E"del*weiss\, noun. [German expression, from edel noble weiss white.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Edelweiss

Synonym: Leontopodium alpinum (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Edelweiss

English words defined with "edelweiss": genus Leontopodium, genus Leucogenes ♦ Leontopodium, Leucogenes, Leucogenes leontopodium ♦ north island edelweiss. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Edelweiss" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (edelweiss), Dutch (edelweiss), French (edelweiss), German (edelweiss), Swedish (edelweiss).

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Modern Usage: Edelweiss

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Pensione Edelweiss (1958)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Edelweiss

Domain	Title
Books	Dein Edelweiss, das macht mich heiss : Souvenir und Modeblume der Alpen (reference) Edelweiss (reference) Edelweiss from the Sound of Music (reference) Ein kleines Edelweiss : ein Gebirgsj�ger im Einsatz vom ersten bis zum letzten Tag (reference) The Bunker on Edelweiss Mountain (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Edelweiss

"Edelweiss" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Edelweiss" 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)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Edelweiss

Expression using "edelweiss": north island edelweiss. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "edelweiss": Tyrol-with-edelweiss.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Edelweiss

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
edelweiss	497
edelweiss flower	40
edelweiss lyrics	29
edelweiss plant	14
edelweiss hotel	13
edelweiss milwaukee	11
club edelweiss	10
edelweiss music sound	9
edelweiss song	8
edelweiss tour	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Edelweiss

Language		Translations for "edelweiss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		edelweiss. (various references)

Czech		protìž. (various references)

Dutch		edelweiss. (various references)

Esperanto		edelvejso. (various references)

French		edelweiss, étoile des Alpes. (various references)

German		edelweiß. (various references)

Hebrew		לב� בן (whitish). (various references)

Hungarian		havasi gyopár. (various references)

Italian		stella alpina. (various references)

Manx		lus ny Helveeish. (various references)

Pig Latin		edelweissay.(various references)

Portuguese		edelvais. (various references)

Russian		эдельвейс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		runolist. (various references)

Swedish		edelweiss. (various references)

Thai		�"อกไม้สีขาวใบขาวจำพวก Leontopodium alpinum พบบน� ูเขาแอลป์. (various references)

Turkish		edelvays, alplere özgü beyaz çiçek. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Edelweiss

Derivations
	Words beginning with "edelweiss": edelweisses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Edelweiss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edelweis, edleweiss, eidelweiss. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Edelweiss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-s-s-w"
	-1 letter: weedless.
	-2 letters: dewless, diesels, idlesse, lewises, seidels.
	-3 letters: diesel, dieses, ediles, elides, lessee, sedile, seeled, seidel, seised, sidles, slewed, slides, swedes, wedels, wields, wissed.
	-4 letters: deils, deles, delis, edile, elide, idles, isled, isles, lewis, lweis, seeds, seels, seise, sewed, sides, sidle, silds, sleds, slews, slide, swede, wedel, weeds, welds, wides, wield, wilds, wiled, wiles, wised, wises.
	-5 letters: dees, deil, dele, deli, dels, dews, diel, dies, diss, eels, eide, elds, else, eses, ewes, ides, idle, isle, lees, leis, less, lewd, lids, lied, lies, lwei, seed, seel, sees, seis, sels, sews, side, sild, sled, slew, slid, weds, weed, weel, wees, weld, wide, wild, wile, wise, wiss.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-s-s-w"
	+1 letter: wirelessed.
	+2 letters: edelweisses, silverweeds, wildebeests.
	+3 letters: wildernesses.
	+5 letters: bewilderedness, unwieldinesses.
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