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AMESS

Definition: AMESS

AMESS

Noun

1. Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AMESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Crosswords: AMESS

English words defined with "AMESS": Amice. (references)

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Usage Frequency: AMESS

"AMESS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMESS" is used about 22 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 (proper)100%2274,468

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AMESS

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

  amess

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

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Rhyming with "AMESS"

Words rhyming with "AMESS" (pronounced 'Am"ess'): Archduchess, Bowess, Citess, Coheiress, Countess, Deess, Duchess, Greekess, heiress, Herdess, hostess, Jewess, Knavess, millionairess, Mooress, Peeress, Priestess, Procuress, Prowess, Saintess, Seeress, Spousess. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AMESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: masse, mesas, seams.

Words within the letters "a-e-m-s-s"

-1 letter: maes, mass, mesa, mess, same, seam, seas.

-2 letters: ass, ems, ess, mae, mas, sae, sea.

-3 letters: ae, am, as, em, es, ma, me.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-s-s"
 

+1 letter: amuses, assume, manses, marses, masers, mashes, massed, masses, megass, mensas, messan, myases, sameks, sesame, shames, smazes, smears, steams.

 

+2 letters: ageisms, aimless, amassed, amasser, amasses, amusers, armless, assumed, assumer, assumes, camases, camises, damsels, demasts, desmans, embassy, impasse, inseams, jetsams, madness, manless, marshes, mashers, mashies, maskegs, maskers, masques, massage, masseur, massier, massive, masters, matless, mavises, measles, medusas, megasse, mescals, message, messans, messiah, messman, misease, miseats, misseat, mutases, myiases, sachems, samechs, samekhs, samiels, samisen, samites, samlets, samples, schemas, screams, seamers, seismal, sesames, shammes, shmears, siamese, smashed, smasher, smashes, smegmas, stamens, stemmas, streams, swamies, tamises, unseams, vamoses, wamuses, zymases.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4D 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001101 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3547395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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