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Archness

Definition: Archness

Archness

Noun

1. Inappropriate playfulness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "archness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

"Archness" is a common misspelling or typo for: arches, raciness, rashness.


Synonyms: Archness

Synonyms: impertinence (n), perkiness (n), pertness (n), sauciness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Archness

Specialty definitions using "archness": Weller. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Archness

"Archness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Archness" 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 (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Archness

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

Albanian

  

qesëndi (mockery, raillery). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مكر (artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, trick, wiliness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хитрост (art, artfulness, artifice, deceitfulness, device, dodge, finesse, game, guile, overreach, policy, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem, trick), коварство (guile, perfidy), лукавство (craft, craftiness, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, subtlety, wiliness). (various references)

   

French

  

malice. (various references)

   

German

  

neckische art. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πανουργία (artfulness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, trickishness, wile, wiliness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עו'ב ות (coquetry, flirtation), ערמומיות (artfulness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pajzánság (impishness), pajkosság (impishness), huncutság (impishness, jig, ploy, prank), dévajság, dévajkodás (dalliance, devilry, deviltry). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malizia (cunning, malice, mischief, trick). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cluicys (cunning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

archnessay

   

Portuguese

  

travessura (caper, Dido, Frisk, gambado, hob, mischievous, prank, waggery), superioridade (advantage, better, boot, chic, distinctive, eminence, mastery, pre eminent, precedency, precedent, prepotency, superiority), malícia (after-thought, guile, malice, maliciousness), importância (account, amount, at the moment, bigness, caliber, calibre, concernment, consideration, gravy, import, importance, magnitude, materiality, matter, ponderosity, prestigious, salience, seriousness, significance, signification, stress, sum, value). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

afectare (affectation, affecting, demureness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, feint, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, preciosity, primness, sham), viclenie (artfulness, astuteness, catch, contrivance, craft, cunning, devilry, finesse, fraud, guile, ruse, shift, subtlety, vicleim, wile), rãutate (acrimony, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malice, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), cochetãrie (affectation, coquetry, coyness, demureness, elegance, smartness, spruceness, tidiness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хитрость (artfulness, catch, circumvention, craft, craftiness, double, fetch, finesse, guile, management, slyness, stealth, stratagem, subtlety, trick, trickery, trickiness, wile, wiliness), коварство (craftiness, devilry, guile, wiliness), игривое лукавство. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

astucia (artfulness, astuteness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, flirtation, foxiness, guile, overreach, pawkiness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slyness, snare, subtlety, trickery, wiliness, worldly wisdom), socarronería, picardía (craftiness, naughtiness, rascality, roguery, Smarts), malicia (cattiness, catty, malice, maliciousness, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, slyness, wickedness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kurnazlık (art, artfulness, artifice, arts, astuteness, craftiness, cunning, dodge, finesse, foxiness, guile, shenanigan, shiftiness, slyness, smartness, stratagem, strategy, subtility, subtlety, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wiliness, wrinkle), cilve (coquetry, coquettish airs, manifestation), şeytan gibi olma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хитрість (artfulness, artifice, astuteness, catch, craft, craftiness, cunning, finesse, foxery, overreach, pawk, ploy, sharpness, sleight, stealth, trick, trickery, wiliness), глузливість (quizzery), насмішкуватість, підступність (astuteness, craftiness, cunning, devilry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Archness

Derivations

Words beginning with "archness": archnesses. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Archness"

Words rhyming with "archness" (pronounced 'Arch"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Archness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-s"

-1 letter: ancress, caserns, chasers, crashes, eschars, harness, ranches.

-2 letters: arches, caners, caress, carses, casern, cashes, chares, chaser, chases, chasse, cranes, crases, encash, escars, eschar, hances, hanses, naches, nacres, rances, rashes, sarsen, scares, scenas, search, seracs, shares, sharns, shears, snares.

-3 letters: aches, acnes, acres, arses, ashen, ashes, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, cases, chare, chars.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: anchoress, chariness, enchasers, snatchers, stanchers.

 

+2 letters: anchorless, archnesses, branchless, chasteners, franchises, schnauzers.

 

+3 letters: anchoresses, charinesses, enchantress, franchisees, franchisers, graphicness, marchioness, preachiness, raunchiness, revanchisms, revanchists, scherzandos, starchiness, subbranches.

 

+4 letters: anthracnoses, asynchronies, brackishness, bunchgrasses, chairpersons, chansonniers, cornstarches, disfranchise, enfranchises, icosahedrons, merchandises, scratchiness, scrimshander, shortchanges.

 

+5 letters: anchorpersons, antihysterics, cheeseparings, disenchanters, disfranchised, disfranchises, elasmobranchs, enchantresses, graphicnesses, heartsickness, marchionesses, merchandisers, neurasthenics, preachinesses, raunchinesses, scenographers, scenographies, sclerenchymas, scrimshanders, shortchangers, starchinesses, stickhandlers, transhumances.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Archness


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

41 72 63 68 6E 65 73 73

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

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

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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 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0063 0068 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

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

3584697480718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Archness"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hebreo, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtgjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, ‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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