Words that began as trademarks

Questions about this list

What is the words that began as trademarks collection?

Senses marked as trademarks — brand names that turned into common nouns. It holds 208 entries drawn from the 147,478 in AltF Lexicon.

How was this list of words that began as trademarks put together?

Membership is computed from data the entry already carries, applied to every entry in the corpus, so the list regenerates correctly whenever the corpus changes.

What is the most common of the words that began as trademarks?

cat — it sits in the top commonness band of the words stored for this list. The list is ordered by commonness, so the words most readers already half know come first and the specialist tail comes last.

What is the longest word in this collection?

oxytetracycline hydrochloride, at 28 letters. The average across the list is 2.9 syllables per word.

• Idioms and phrases7,472Entries of more than one word whose meaning is not the sum of its parts — the part of English that defeats literal translation.
• Phrasal verbs1,834Two-word verbs — a verb plus a particle that changes its meaning entirely. Give up, take on, put off.
• Words used in United Kingdom918918 entries carrying a sense WordNet marks as United Kingdom usage — vocabulary that is standard there and conspicuous elsewhere.
• Informal words610Senses marked colloquial or informal: fine in speech, conspicuous in a report.
• Words marked colloquialism610610 entries with a sense WordNet labels colloquialism. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Words marked trade name602602 entries with a sense WordNet labels trade name. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Words marked plural373373 entries with a sense WordNet labels plural. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Words marked trademark208208 entries with a sense WordNet labels trademark. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Slang202Senses WordNet marks as slang — informal vocabulary that has not been admitted to neutral writing.