Alpenstock

Definition: Alpenstock

Alpenstock

Noun

1. A stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers.

Date "alpenstock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)

Note: Alpenstock \Al"pen*stock`\, noun. [G.; Alp, general plural Alpen stock stick.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Alpenstock

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Support	Staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Alpenstock

Non-English Usage: "Alpenstock" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (alpenstock).

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Photo Album: Alpenstock

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Small umbrella lashed to alpenstock - shading instrument from sun Triangulation party of William M. Scaife.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Alpenstock

"Alpenstock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alpenstock" 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)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alpenstock

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
alpenstock	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alpenstock

Language		Translations for "alpenstock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkop i alpinistit. (various references)

Bulgarian		туристически бастун. (various references)

Finnish		alppisauva. (various references)

Greek		ράβδοσ αλπινίστου. (various references)

Hungarian		hegyi felszerelés. (various references)

Italian		bastone da montagna. (various references)

Manx		maidjey Alpagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		alpenstockay

Russian		альпеншток. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		alpinistički štap. (various references)

Spanish		alpenstock. (various references)

Swedish		alpstav. (various references)

Turkish		demir uçlu dağcı sopası. (various references)

Ukranian		альпеншток. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Alpenstock

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alpenstock": alpenstocks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alpenstock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alpenstocked. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alpenstock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-l-n-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: conepatls.
	-2 letters: capstone, conepatl, lactones, lockstep, opencast, penstock, plackets, polecats, polentas.
	-3 letters: anklets, apostle, cantles, caplets, capotes, centals, enclasp, escalop, espanol, etalons, lactone, lactose, lancets, lankest, leptons, locates, lockets, octanes, packets, pelotas, placets, placket, planets, platens, pockets, polecat, polenta, skatole, slacken, spackle, spancel, tackles, talcose, teopans, toecaps, tolanes.
	-4 letters: ankles, anklet, anoles, ascent, aslope.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-l-n-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: alpenstocks.
	+3 letters: kleptomaniacs.
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