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Definition: SPADER |
SPADERNoun1. One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A narrow stiff spade for digging hard clay. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPADER |
| Non-English Usage: "SPADER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (spade, spades). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | James Spader. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "SPADER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "SPADER" is used about 6 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 (proper) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SPADER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Spader | Last name | 300 | 27,070 |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SPADER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marteau-bêche (clay spade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spatenhammer (clay digger, clay spade, graft, grafting tool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | martello a zappa (clay digger, clay spade, graft, grafting tool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aderspay pá pneumática (clay digger, clay spade, graft, grafting tool). (various references) Sãpãtor (digger, ditcher, excavator, grubber, Sexton, trencher). (various references) martillo azadón (clay digger, clay spade, graft, grafting tool). (various references) คนที่ขุ""ิน"้วยพลั่วหรือเสียม. (various references) người đ o thuổng máy đ o đất, người đ o mai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPADER": spaders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPADER" (pronounced spā"der) |
| 3 | -ā" d er | crusader, evader, fader, grader, invader, lader, nadir, raider, seder, shader, trader, wader. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: drapes, padres, parsed, rasped, spared, spread. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: apers, apres, asper, dares, dears, drape, padre, pards, pared, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, raped, rapes, rased, reads, reaps, spade, spaed, spare, spear. | |
-2 letters: aped, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, daps, dare, dear, ears, eras, pads, pard, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peds, rads, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, reds, reps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aspired, dampers, departs, despair, diapers, drapers, grasped, padders, panders, parades, pedlars, petards, phrased, praised, redcaps, respade, scarped, scraped, sharped, spaders, sparged, sparked, sparred, speared, sprayed, spreads. | |
+2 letters: adapters, adopters, airspeed, apprised, aspersed, bedrapes, bespread, depraves, despairs, diaspore, dispread, eardrops, ephedras, escarped, feldspar, jeopards, leopards, operands, paddlers, padrones, pandores, paraders, paradise, pardners, parodies, parslied, pastored, pastured, pederast, peracids, persuade, pervades, pleaders, predates, predawns, prefades, presaged, presidia, rapeseed, raphides, rapidest, readapts, readopts, relapsed, repassed, repasted, repleads, reshaped, respaced, respaded, respades, respread, rhapsode, scarphed, scorepad, scrapped, spandrel, sparkled, spiraled, spraddle, sprained, sprawled, spreader, strapped, superadd, superbad, traipsed, trapesed, undrapes, updaters, upgrades, upraised, upsoared, upstared. | |
| 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. | |
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