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DUGONGS

"DUGONGS" is a plural of: dugong.

Date "DUGONGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Specialty Definition: DUGONGS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Family of aquatic herbivorous mammals of the order Sirenia. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: DUGONGS

English words defined with "DUGONGS": aquatic mammalDugongidaefamily Dugongidaegenus Dugongorder SireniaSirenia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DUGONGS

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Call of the Siren: Manatees and Dugongs (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: DUGONGS

"DUGONGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUGONGS" is used about 2 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 (plural)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DUGONGS

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

dugongs

22

dugongs picture

5

dugongs queensland

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DUGONGS

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

Danish

  

dygonger. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

doejongachtigen. (various references)

   

French

  

dugongs. (various references)

   

German

  

Gabelschwanz-Seekuehe. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλλικορίδες. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dugongidi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugongsday

   

Portuguese

  

dudongues. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DUGONGS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Dugongidae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: DUGONGS

Misspellings

"DUGONGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dogong, dugon, Dungong, guzgogs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DUGONGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gundogs.

Words within the letters "d-g-g-n-o-s-u"

-1 letter: dugong, gundog, sundog.

-2 letters: dongs, dungs, gongs, nodus, noggs, sound.

-3 letters: dogs, dong, dons, dugs, dung, duns, duos, gnus, gods, gong, guns, nods, nogg, nogs, nous, onus, ouds, snog, snug, song, sung, udos, undo.

-4 letters: dog, don, dos, dug, dun, duo, gnu, god, gos, gun, nod, nog, nos, nus, ods, ons, oud, sod, son.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-g-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: gudgeons.

 

+3 letters: groundhogs, groundings.

 

+4 letters: groundlings.

 

+5 letters: bulldoggings, discouraging, disemboguing, outdesigning.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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