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Definition: Pen-friend |
Pen-friendNoun1. A person you come to know by by frequent friendly correspondence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Pen-friendSynonym: pen pal (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: International Pen Friends (social sciences). |
| "Pen-friend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Pen-friend" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pen-friend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | φίλος αλληλογραφίας (pen pal, pen-friend (pen-pal)). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ペンキ塗り立て (P.E.N. club, pen pal, pen tablet, pencil stripe, pendant, pending, penguin, penholder, penholder grip, pen-name, Pennsylvania, Penrose, pension, pentagon, pentathlon, penthouse, pen-touch, pliers, thoughts, Wet Paint). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ペンフレンド . (various references) | ||||
Korean | 펜" 친구. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | en-friendpay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: repinned. | |
-2 letters: definer, refined, repined, ripened. | |
-3 letters: defier, define, denier, dinner, endrin, fender, ferine, finder, finned, friend, indene, nereid, peined, penned, penner, perdie, pinder, pinene, pinned, pinner, redfin, refind, refine, reined, repine. | |
-4 letters: defer, diene, diner, eider, ender, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed, fried, infer, inned, inner, penne, penni, pined, preed, preen, pride, pried. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-p-r" | |
+2 letters: predefining, prefinanced. | |
+4 letters: fingerprinted. | |
+5 letters: superconfident. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 2D 66 72 69 65 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 00101101 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n - f r i e n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 002D 0066 0072 0069 0065 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718015728475718070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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