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Date "POT-POURRI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pot-Pourri (French). A mixture of dried sweet-smelling flower-petals and herbs preserved in a vase. Also a hotch-potch or olla podrida. In music, a medley of favourite tunes strung together. (See Pasticcio .) Pourri means dead [flowers], and pot-pourri, strictly speaking, is the vase containing the sweet mixture. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: POT-POURRI |
| Non-English Usage: "POT-POURRI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (medley, potpourri), Italian (hodgepodge, potpourri). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pot-pourri (1962) | |
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| "POT-POURRI" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POT-POURRI" is used about 27 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% | 27 | 66,962 |
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| Language | Translations for "POT-POURRI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hutspot (potpourri). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mikspoto (potpourri). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zenei egyveleg, parfüm koktél, parfüm keverék, egyveleg (farrago, medley, miscellany, pot pourri). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ポ"ュラー音楽 (American submarine, cross of a tomato and a potato, Polaris, Polaroid Camera, pomato, Pomeranian, poplar, poplin, popular music, popularism, popularity, population). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ポプリ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ot-pourripay potenciômetro-pourri. (various references) попурри (medley, motley, olio, pastiche, potpourri). (various references) câu chuyện hổ lốn, b i văn hổ lốn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: potpourri. | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: purport. | |
-3 letters: irrupt, torpor, uproot. | |
-4 letters: poori, prior, rotor, topoi, troop. | |
-5 letters: poop, poor, port, pour, pout, prop, puri, purr, riot, root, roti, roto, roup, rout, tiro, topi, tori, toro, torr, tour, trio, trip, trop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: potpourris. | |
+4 letters: preproduction. | |
+5 letters: preproductions. | |
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