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Definition: Pastille |
PastilleNoun1. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pastille" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
Synonyms: PastilleSynonyms: cough drop (n), pastil (n), troche (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pastille |
| Non-English Usage: "Pastille" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (chip, lozenge, pad, pastille, pellet), German (lozenge, pastille). |
| "Pastille" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pastille" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
pastille | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pastille"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pilulë (pastil, pellet, pill), tabletë (lozenge, pastil, pill, tablet), hape (pastil, pill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرة التبخير, قرص طبي محلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | таблетка (pastil, slab, tabloid, troche), бонбон за смучене (pastil), пастила (pastil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pastilka (lozenge), tabletka (pill, tablet), františek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pastille (pad, patch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pastille (compact, lozenge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μικρόσ κώνοσ θυμιάματοσ, παστίλια (compressed good, lozenge, pressed good, tablet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טבלית למציצ", טבלית (lozenge, tablet, tabloid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pirula (drop, globule, pellet, pill, pilule, tablet), pasztilla (troche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pastiglia (biscuit, compact, drop, lining, lozenge, pad, pastil, pellet, slug, tablet), pasticca (drop, lozenge, pastil, pill, tablet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astillepay pastilha (biscuit, cake, chip, compact, compressed good, die, insert, lozenge, pastime, patch, pellet, plug, pressed good, resume, shim, slug, tablet, tabloid, wafer). (various references) pastilã (confection, lozenge), lumânare fumigenã. (various references) ароматическая свеча (pastil), лепешка (griddle cake, johnny-cake, lozenge, pastil, tortilla, troche), лепешечка (pastil, patty 2). (various references) pastila (lozenge, pastil). (various references) pastilla (bar, cake, chip, cube, dice, die, drop, jujube, knot, lozenge, lump, microchip, nodule, pastil, pellet, piece, Square, tablet, wafer). (various references) pastill (lozenge, pastil), tablett (bead, biscuit, lozenge, mat, pellet, pill, slug, table mat, tablemat, tablet, tabloid), rökelsestav. (various references) pastil (jujube, lozenge, pastil), odanın havasını değiştiren kokulu tablet. (various references) таблетка (cake, lozenge, pastil, tablet, tabloid), ароматична свічка (pastil), пастель (chalk, crayon, pastel, pastil). (various references) thuốc viên thơm (pastil), hương thỏi kẹo viên thơm (pastil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pastille": pastilles. (additional references) | |
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"Pastille" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apostille, Astill, bastile, pastelle, pastelled, pastill, Pastilla, Pattullo, Pentillie, pistolier, Pittilla, Plautilla, pulsatile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: palliest. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aplites, paliest, pallets, platies, tailles, talipes, tallies. | |
-2 letters: allies, aplite, espial, illest, lapels, lipase, listel, palest, palets, pallet, pastel, pastie, pastil, petals, petsai, pietas, plaits, plates, pleats, sallet, saltie, septal, spital, staple, stelai, stella, stipel, taille, tallis, telial, tepals. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alist, ileal, islet, istle, lapel, lapis, lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, lilts, lisle, litas, pails, paise, pales, palet, palls, paste, pates, peals, peats, pelts, petal, pieta, pilea, piles, pills, piste, pitas, plait, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plies, salep, sepal, sepia, septa, setal, slate, slept, slipe, slipt, spail, spait, spale, spall, spate, speil, spell, spelt, spiel, spile, spill, spilt, spite, splat, split, stale, stall, steal, stela, stile, still, stipe, taels, tails, tales, tapes, tapis, teals, telia, tells, tepal, tepas, tesla, tiles, tills. | |
-4 letters: ails, aits, ales, alit, alls, alps, alts, apes, apse, ates, east, eats, ells, etas, ilea, ills, isle, laps, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leal, leap, leas, leis, lept, lest, lets, lies, lilt, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, list, lite, lits, pail, pale, pall, pals, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pelt, pest, pets, pial, pias, pies, pile, pill, pita, pits, plat, plea, plie, sail, sale, sall, salp, salt, sate, sati, seal, seat, sell, sept, seta, sial, sill, silt, sipe, site, slap, slat, slip, slit, spae, spat, spit, step, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tape, taps, teal, teas, tela, tell, tels, tepa, ties, tile, till, tils, tips. | |
-5 letters: ail, ais, ait, ale, all, alp, als, alt, ape, apt, asp, ate, eat, ell, els, eta, ill, its, lap, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lip, lis, lit, pal, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, sae, sal, sap, sat, sea, sei, sel, set, sip, sit, spa, tae, tap, tas, tea, tel, tie, til, tip, tis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: palletise, palliates, pastilles, pulsatile. | |
+2 letters: allotypies, paillettes, palletised, palletises, palletizes, papillotes, pastellist, pistillate, pollinates, tailplanes. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, allotropies, aseptically, basipetally, ellipticals, ipsilateral, leptospiral, lightplanes, paclitaxels, painfullest, palatalizes, palletising, palletizers, palliatives, pastellists, philatelies, philatelist, pluralities, potentillas, skeptically, tripletails, ultrasimple. | |
+4 letters: apophyllites, appellations, appellatives, boilerplates, caterpillars, cupellations, despotically, lamplighters, palatialness, pedestalling, pestilential, philatelists, phyllotaxies, plainclothes, planetesimal, pliabilities, realpolitiks, septennially. | |
+5 letters: allelopathies, bipropellants, capillarities, compellations, culpabilities, dyspeptically, epistemically, interpellates, ipsilaterally, kapellmeister, multispectral, palpabilities, pietistically, placabilities, planetesimals, planetologies, planetologist, playabilities, politicalizes, polydactylies, pralltrillers, semipolitical, sempiternally, speculatively, splenetically, superlatively, superloyalist. | |
| 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 61 73 74 69 6C 6C 65 |
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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).--. .- ... - .. .-.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a s t i l l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0073 0074 0069 006C 006C 0065 |
| 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)5067858675787871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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