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Definitions: Incognito |
IncognitoAdjective1. With your identity concealed. Adverb1. Without revealing one's identity; "in Holland he lived incognito as a carpenter in the shipyards of the East India company". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incognito" was first used: 1649. (references) |
Synonym: IncognitoSynonym: incognito(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily; Adjective: behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen; incognito; in camera. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incognito |
| English words defined with "incognito": Incog, Incognitos. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incognito": Knight of the Couching Leopard ♦ Lavaine'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "incognito": Incog, Incognita. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Incognito" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (incognito), Italian (incognito, unknown), Romanian (incog, incognito). |
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Screenplays | I am Neely O'Hara, I am merely traveling incognito. (Valley of the Dolls; writing credit: Helen Deutsch; Dorothy Kingsley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Incognito (1958) Mon coeur incognito (1930) Madame Incognito (1921) Incognito (1915) At the Beach Incognito (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Incognito.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking. |
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| "Incognito" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 89.19% of the time. "Incognito" is used about 37 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 89.19% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | 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 |
incognito | 168 |
dl incognito | 15 |
incognito villa | 14 |
incognito tattoo | 7 |
incognito pipe | 6 |
incognito surf | 6 |
incognito richie | 5 |
incognito terra | 4 |
incognito robbins tom villa | 4 |
incognito lyrics | 3 |
incognito proxy | 3 |
band incognito | 3 |
incognito mp3 | 3 |
everyday incognito | 2 |
incognito interview robbins tom villa | 2 |
incognito jazz | 2 |
incognito studio | 2 |
cliente incognito | 2 |
incognito love sofa | 2 |
incognito music | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incognito"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | inkonjito, person që s'tregon emrin, gjendje inkonjito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متنكر (disguised, in disguise, masked, masqueraded), تستر (disguise, gloss over), إسم مستعار (alias, anonymity, nom de plume, pseudonym, sobriquet, soubriquet), بصفة غير صفة رسمية, بإسم مستعار (pseudonymous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизвестен човек, инкогнито. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | inkognito, na zapřenou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onbekend willen blijven (to preserve one's incognito). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مجهول الهویه , ناشناس (Strange, Unco, Unknown), ناشناخت , بانام مستعار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pysytellä tuntemattomana (to preserve one's incognito), matkustaa tuntematonna (travel incognito). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incognito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | inkognito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ινκόγκνιτο, αγνώριστοσ (unrecognizable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עלום שם (anonymity), בעלום שם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ismeretlenül, ismeretlen (anon, anonymous, faceless, faraway, it is unknown, little known, nameless, obscure, occult, unacquainted, unbeknown, unco, unfamiliar, unheard of, unheard-of, unidentified, unknown), inkognitó, álnév (alias, anonym, assumed name, feigned name, nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym, sobriquet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | secara menyamar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incognito (unknown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 潜行 (travelling in disguise, travelling incognito, underwater navigation), 微行 (traveling incognito). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | び"う (beautiful port, faint light, follow, muzzle of a dog, N.B., nose and mouth, nostril, nostrils, note, provision for famine, remarks, shadow, tail, the nasal cavity, traveling incognito), せ""う (acting arbitrarily, arbitrary action, batting first, bright red, departure of the emperor from the capital, distinguished war service, fine workmanship, flash, glint, going first, incense stick, light red, major subject, merit of war, one's late father, ore sorting, perforation, polarimetric, preceding, punching, rupture, scarlet, screening, selection, special study, submarine voyage, travelling in disguise, travelling incognito, underwater navigation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ass enney (irrecognizable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incognitoay incoagulável, incógnito. (various references) incognito (incog). (various references) инкогнито. (various references) inkognito, tajno (backstage, hugger mugger, secret: in secret, secretly, sly: on the sly, stilly). (various references) incógnito (unknown). (various references) inkognito (incognita), under antaget namn, person som uppträder inkognito. (various references) imzasız (anonym, anonymous, unsigned), tebdili kıyafet, takma adla, takma ad (agnomen, alias, byname, cognomen, nickname, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym, pseudonymity, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname), sahte kimlik, kimliğini gizleyerek, kimliğini gizleyen kimse, kılık değiştirme (disguise), kılık değiştirerek. (various references) інкогніто. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incognitus. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | incognito. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incognito": incognitos. (additional references) | |
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"Incognito" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: icognito, igcognito, incogneto, incognit, ingognito, inkognito, ncognito. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incognito" (pronounced i'nkôgnē"tō) |
| 4 | -n ē" t ō | Bonito. |
| 3 | -ē" t ō | burrito, mosquito, veto. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cognition. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: noticing. | |
-2 letters: coining, coition, nicotin. | |
-3 letters: citing, cogito, congii, coning, cooing, coting, gonion, noting, notion, tining, toning. | |
-4 letters: cogon, coign, congo, conin, conto, icing, incog, ingot, inion, ionic, niton, onion, ontic, tigon, tonic. | |
-5 letters: cion, coin, coni, conn, coon, coot, goon, icon, inti, into, noon, onto, otic, ting, tong, toon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cognitions, incognitos. | |
+2 letters: cognitional, recognition. | |
+3 letters: conditioning, consignation, consociating, coordinating, noncognitive, oncogenicity, precognition, recognitions. | |
+4 letters: configuration, consignations, consolidating, incorporating, precognitions, reconnoitring. | |
+5 letters: configurations, conglutination, contemporizing, counterpoising, deconditioning, nonconflicting, nonfunctioning, nonrecognition, oncogenicities, overcautioning, postganglionic, reconditioning, reconnoitering, serotoninergic, technologizing, xenodiagnostic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6F 67 6E 69 74 6F |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c o g n i t o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006F 0067 006E 0069 0074 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438069817380758681 |
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