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Definition: Escargot |
EscargotNoun1. Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: EscargotSynonym: snail (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Escargot |
| Etymologies containing "escargot": Escargatoire. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Escargot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (snail). |
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Screenplays | Over there, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) | |
Lyrics | Meanwhile in the cargo of escargot ("Clockwork Creep"; performing artist: 10CC) Escargot, my car go, one sixty, swiftly ("Hypnotize"; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Amours d'un escargot (1922) | |
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| "Escargot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Escargot" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
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 |
escargot | 142 |
escargot recipe | 28 |
begonia escargot | 6 |
dali escargot | 5 |
escargot recette | 4 |
begonia escargot rex | 3 |
escargot shell | 2 |
escargot spinach traume | 2 |
escargot snail | 2 |
escargot farm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "escargot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | volute. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schnecke (auger, cochlea, endless screw, feed screw, screw, scroll, slug, snail, spiral staircase, volute, worm, worn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | éti csiga. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | escargotay salyangoz (helix, snail, Winkle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "escargot": escargots. (additional references) | |
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"Escargot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escariot, escravos, escrgot, Seagroatt, Sessarago. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cargoes, coaster, coaters, corsage, garotes, orgeats, socager, storage. | |
-2 letters: actors, argots, cagers, carets, cargos, cartes, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, corset, costae, costar, coster, crates, ergots, escort, garote, gaster, gators, graces, grates, greats, groats, oaters, orates, orgeat, reacts, recast, rectos, retags, scoter, scrota, sector, socage, stager, targes, tarocs, traces. | |
-3 letters: acres, actor, agers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cottagers, escargots. | |
+2 letters: catalogers, categories, categorise, corrugates, factorages, goatsucker, greatcoats, hectograms, outcharges. | |
+3 letters: ancestoring, cataloguers, categorised, categorises, categorizes, colportages, congregants, congregates, dogcatchers, forecasting, gastrectomy, gastroscope, goatsuckers, grapholects, hectographs, overcasting, scattergood, shortchange, spectrogram, subcategory, sugarcoated. | |
+4 letters: archeologist, categorising, centimorgans, cogenerators, congregators, consecrating, electrograms, gastrocnemii, gastroscopes, geostrategic, gerontocrats, gesticulator, granulocytes, macrogametes, megaprojects, microgametes, nonstrategic, organicities, overcastings, scattergoods, secretagogue, shortchanged, shortchanger, shortchanges, spectrograms, spectrograph, stenographic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 73 63 61 72 67 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... -.-. .- .-. --. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s c a r g o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0063 0061 0072 0067 006F 0074 |
| 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)3985696784738186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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