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DUPION

Definition: DUPION

DUPION

Noun

1. A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dupion \Du"pi*on\, noun. [French expression doupion, Italian doppione, from doppio double, from Latin expression duplus. See Double, and compare to Doubloon.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: DUPION

Etymologies containing "DUPION": Doubloon. (references)

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Usage Frequency: DUPION

"DUPION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUPION" is used about 20 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DUPION

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dupion silk fabric

5

dupion silk

4

dupion

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DUPION

Language Translations for "DUPION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

douppion. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

doupion. (various references)

   

French

  

doupion. (various references)

   

German

  

Douppion, Doupion. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ντουπιόν. (various references)

   

Italian

  

doppione (doublet, duplicate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upionday

   

Portuguese

  

casulo duplo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dupión. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DUPION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: unipod.

Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-p-u"

-1 letter: poind, pound.

-2 letters: nodi, pion, pond, undo, updo, upon.

-3 letters: din, dip, don, dui, dun, duo, dup, ion, nip, nod, oud, pin, piu, pod, poi, pud, pun, udo, upo.

-4 letters: do, id, in, no, nu, od, on, op, pi, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o-p-u"
 

+1 letter: impound, unipods.

 

+2 letters: doupioni, impounds, inpoured, pounding, unpoised.

 

+3 letters: aneuploid, doupionis, impounded, producing, purloined, unpoliced, unspoiled, upfolding, upholding, uploading.

 

+4 letters: aneuploids, aneuploidy, compendium, decoupling, deputation, diaphanous, disruption, duopsonies, expounding, importuned, impounding, outpainted, outpointed, production, profundity, protruding, unimproved, unoccupied, unpolished, uphoarding.

 

+5 letters: compendious, compendiums, compounding, coproducing, cuspidation, decoupaging, deputations, disputation, disruptions, duplication, impoundment, incorrupted, outdropping, outplodding, outspeeding, outspending, outsprinted, pandemonium, productions, propounding, reproducing, repudiation, suspicioned, uncaptioned, unexploited, unpolarized.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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