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Definition: Eldritch |
EldritchAdjective1. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eldritch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Synonyms: EldritchSynonyms: uncanny (adj), unearthly (adj), weird (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eldritch |
| English words defined with "eldritch": Elritch ♦ uncanny, unearthly ♦ weird. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Rimers of Eldritch (1974) | |
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| "Eldritch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Eldritch" is used about 13 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 76.92% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eldritch": eldritch-bright. | |
| 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 |
andrew eldritch | 13 |
eldritch | 8 |
eldritch press | 6 |
the rimers of eldritch | 6 |
daoc eldritch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eldritch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i mbinatyrshëm (magic, magical, miraculous, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched). (various references) | |
Czech | podivný (curious, freak, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, utter, weird). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hátborzongató (creepy, eerie, eery, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, morbid, uncanny, weird). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eldritchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobrenatural (daemonic, demonic, mystical, pretext, supernatural, weird), filho primogênito. (various references) | |
Russian | жуткий (eerie, eery, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, uncanny). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tajanstven (arcane, dark, hidden, mysterious, occult, orphic, secretive). (various references) | |
Spanish | misterioso (dark, eerie, eery, inscrutable, intriguing, lurid, mysterious, occult, odd, oracular, puzzling, queer, shrouded in mystery, spooky, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny, weird). (various references) | |
Thai | ประหลา" (freak, queerish). (various references) | |
Turkish | korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), büyülü (magical, occult, sorcerous), çirkin (beastly, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Ukranian | та"мничий (cabbalistic, cryptic, esoteric, mysterious, mystical, occult, orphean, orphic, secretive, unearthly, weird), надприродний (non-natural, preternatural, superior, supernatural, uncanny), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu như ma. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Eldritch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edrych, elderitch, Eldric, eldrich, Ledcreich, Zelditch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eldritch" (pronounced e"ldrikh) |
| 3 | -r i kh | ostrich. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ditcher, eldrich, lichted, thirled. | |
-2 letters: chider, chield, childe, cither, clerid, credit, delict, deltic, direct, dither, dreich, herdic, hilted, itched, lither, relict, thrice, tirled, triced. | |
-3 letters: chert, chide, chiel, child, chile, cider, cited, citer, cried, dicer, ditch, edict, ethic, hider, hired, idler, ither, letch, licht, liter, lithe, litre, recti, relic, relit, retch, riced, riled, telic, their, third, thirl, tilde, tiled, tiler, tired, trice, tried. | |
-4 letters: cedi, ceil, celt, chid, chit, cire, cite, clit, deil, deli, delt, dice, diel, diet, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, edit, elhi, etch, etic, heil, heir, held, herd, herl, hide, hied, hilt, hire, iced, idle, ired, itch, lech, lehr, lice, lich, lied, lier, lire, lite, rice, rich, ride, riel, rile, rite, thir, tide, tied, tier, tile, tire, tirl. | |
-5 letters: cel, chi, del, die, dit, edh, eld, eth, her, het, hic, hid, hie, hit, ice, ich, ire, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, rec, red, rei, ret, rid, ted, tel, the, tic, tie, til. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-l-r-t" | |
+2 letters: flichtered. | |
+3 letters: chlorinated, pulchritude. | |
+4 letters: chesterfield, dechlorinate, helicoptered, pulchritudes, stepchildren, stickhandler. | |
+5 letters: candlelighter, chesterfields, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, hydroelectric, multibranched, stickhandlers, straightlaced, tetrachloride, unchlorinated, underclothing. | |
| 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)45 6C 64 72 69 74 63 68 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. -.. .-. .. - -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l d r i t c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0064 0072 0069 0074 0063 0068 |
| 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)3978708475866974 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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