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Definition: Flageolet |
FlageoletNoun1. A French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried. 2. A small fipple flute with with four finger holes and two thumb holes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flageolet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- An old musical wind instrument, ancestor of the tin whistle
- Also the name of a type of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flageolet."
Synonyms: FlageoletSynonyms: haricot (n), shepherd's pipe (n), treble recorder (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flageolet |
| English words defined with "flageolet": Flute a bec ♦ open diapason ♦ Zufolo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flageolet" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (flageolet). |
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| "Flageolet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flageolet" is used about 11 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) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flageolet": flageolet tone ♦ Flageolet tones. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
flageolet | 11 |
flageolet bean | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flageolet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fyell i vogël. (various references) | |
Arabic | السوطي حيوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | флажолет (harmonics, recorder), вид зелен фасул (snap bean). (various references) | |
Czech | hudební instrument podobný flétnì. (various references) | |
Danish | flageolet. (various references) | |
Dutch | flageolet. (various references) | |
Finnish | vahapapu (butter bean, wax bean). (various references) | |
French | flageolet (flageolet tone). (various references) | |
German | Flageolett, kleine weiße Bohnen, harmonischer Oberton. (various references) | |
Greek | πλαγίαυλοσ, φλαμπεόλα, αμπελοφάσουλο (string bean). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חלילון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fuvola (flute), flazsolet. (various references) | |
Italian | fagiolo nano (asparagus pea, goa bean, winged bean), zufolo (mirliton), zufoli. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 銀笛 , 篳篥 (Shinto flute). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎんてき, ひちりき (Shinto flute). (various references) | |
Manx | feddan (aqueduct, barrel, channel, chanter, fife, flute, pipe, sleeve, sleeving, tube, tubing, vessel, whistle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ageoletflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flautim (piccolo), flajolé, feijão branco pequeno, feijão branco (white bean). (various references) | |
Romanian | flajeolet. (various references) | |
Russian | флежолет, флажолет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flažolet. (various references) | |
Spanish | fríjol (common bean, French bean, garden bean, kidney bean), octavín, chirimia. (various references) | |
Swedish | flageolettflöjt, flageolett, krypböna (asparagus pea, goa bean, winged bean). (various references) | |
Turkish | flajole, küçük flüt (piccolo), bir tür fasulye (gram). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | флажолет. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flageolet": flageolets. (additional references) | |
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"Flageolet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flagelent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flageolet" (pronounced fla'jule"t) |
| 3 | -l e" t | cabriolet, let, roulette. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-g-l-l-o-t" | |
-2 letters: fellate, floatel, flotage, leaflet, tollage. | |
-3 letters: allege, eaglet, felloe, foetal, folate, gallet, gelate, gelato, goatee, legate, legato, oleate, telega. | |
-4 letters: aglee, aglet, allee, allot, aloft, atoll, eagle, elate, fagot, fella, fetal, fleet, float, flota, gleet, gloat, legal, telae, togae. | |
-5 letters: agee, alee, alef, aloe, alto, egal, fall, fate, feal, feat, feel, feet, fell, felt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-g-l-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: flageolets. | |
+5 letters: dinoflagellate, hemoflagellate. | |
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