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Definition: Pentatonic |
PentatonicAdjective1. Relating to a pentatonic scale. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Pentatonic |
| English words defined with "pentatonic": pentatonic scale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pentatonic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (pentatonic). |
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 | A pentatonic melody played on a keyboard with digital drums accompanying. |
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| "Pentatonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pentatonic" is used about 56 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% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pentatonic": pentatonic scale. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
pentatonic scale | 91 |
pentatonic | 20 |
pentatonic guitar scale | 14 |
pentatonic practice scale | 8 |
minor pentatonic scale | 7 |
major pentatonic scale | 6 |
minor pentatonic | 4 |
pentatonic shape | 3 |
major pentatonic | 3 |
hardcore pentatonic wylde zakk | 2 |
pentatonic song | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pentatonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | δΊ"ι³ι³ι (pentatonic scale), εδΈζγ (pentatonic scale). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | γ"γγ"γγ"γγ (pentatonic scale), γγͺγ¬γ (pentatonic scale). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | entatonicpay pentatonic. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Pentatonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pentanoic, Pentapolis, pentatomid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: panettoni. | |
-2 letters: cotenant, intonate, pittance, taconite. | |
-3 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, antipot, apnoeic, caption, connate, contain, content, ectopia, enation, entopic, nepotic, nictate, paction, patient, picante, pinnace, pinnate, pintano, pontine, taction, tetanic, tonetic, tontine. | |
-4 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, ancone, anoint, apneic, atonic, atopic, canine, cannie, cannot, canton, capote, cation, catnip, cattie, centai, conine, cottae, enatic, encina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: pectination. | |
+2 letters: antientropic, pectinations, placentation. | |
+3 letters: containerport, contemplating, contemplation, contraception, placentations, repunctuation. | |
+4 letters: antineoplastic, compartmenting, containerports, contemplations, contraceptions, epicontinental, nontherapeutic, repunctuations. | |
+5 letters: acetophenetidin, anthropocentric, antispeculation, complementation, contemporaneity, emancipationist, introspectional, parthenogenetic, prenotification. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 74 61 74 6F 6E 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - .- - --- -. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n t a t o n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0074 0061 0074 006F 006E 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718086678681807569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Sounds | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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