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Definition: Cuprous |
CuprousAdjective1. Of or containing divalent copper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CuprousSynonym: cupric (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cuprous |
| English words defined with "cuprous": cuprite ♦ Fehling's solution. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cuprous": catalyst-manufacturing operator, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE HELPER, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE OPERATOR ♦ deoxidized copper ♦ Hunt and Douglas process ♦ Russell process ♦ set copper ♦ underpoled copper. (references) |
| "Cuprous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cuprous" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cuprous": cuprous chloride. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cuprous oxide | 5 |
cuprous chloride | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cuprous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نحاسي (brazen, copper, coppery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | меден хлорид (cuprous chloride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 亚". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονατομικώσ χαλκικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rézklorid (cuprous chloride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 銅アンモニア法 (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうアンモニアほう (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cobbyroil (cupreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uprouscay хлористая медь (cuprous chloride). (various references) kuprit (cuprite, cuprous chloride). (various references) koppar klorid (cuprous chloride). (various references) bakırlı (coppery, cupreous, cupric), bakır (copper, cupric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cuprous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caporoso, cipro, copous, Coprinus, cupious, curous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: corpus, croups. | |
-2 letters: corps, coups, crops, croup, pours, roups, scour, usurp. | |
-3 letters: cops, cors, coup, crop, crus, cups, curs, cusp, opus, orcs, ours, pour, pros, purs, rocs, roup, scop, scup, soup, sour, spur, urus. | |
-4 letters: cop, cor, cos, cup, cur, ops, orc, ors, our, pro, pur, pus, roc, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups. | |
-5 letters: op. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: croupous, cupreous. | |
+2 letters: crapulous. | |
+3 letters: drupaceous, operculums, pronucleus, scrupulous, subproduct, superscout, uncouplers. | |
+4 letters: corpuscular, cupriferous, groupuscule, outproduces, perspicuous, promiscuous, punctuators, scrumptious, subproducts, superscouts. | |
+5 letters: countercoups, groupuscules, percutaneous, pronucleuses, scrupulosity, scrupulously, supercilious, superconduct, transpicuous, unscrupulous. | |
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