About The Word “Minority”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “minority”, including spelling, parts of speech, “minority” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “minority”

Minority is spelled m-i-n-o-r-i-t-y and has 8 letters.


How many vowels and consonants in “minority”

The word “minority” has 5 consonants and 3 vowels.


How many syllables in “minority”?

There are 4 syllables in the word “minority”.


What type of word is “minority”?

The word "minority" can be a noun and adjective.

Meaning of the word “minority”

A minority refers to a group of people that is smaller in number compared to the rest of the population, often distinguished by race, religion, ethnicity, or other social factors. It can also signify a viewpoint or opinion that is held by a smaller number of individuals within a larger group.
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Synonyms for “minority”

Other words for “minority” include minority group, smaller part, lesser number, marginal group, smaller section, fewer, subgroup.

Common misspellings of “minority”

Manority

Scrambled words derived from “minority”

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Crossword clues for “minority”

Diminutive group's key found in matrimony (8).

Fun facts about the word “minority”

The word “minority” has a Scrabble score of 13 and reads ytironim in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “minority”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“minority” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “minority”

Lowercase word: 109 105 110 111 114 105 116 121

Uppercase word: 77 73 78 79 82 73 84 89

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “minority”

Lowercase word: 1101101 1101001 1101110 1101111 1110010 1101001 1110100 1111001

Uppercase word: 1001101 1001001 1001110 1001111 1010010 1001001 1010100 1011001

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “minority”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x6D 0x69 0x6E 0x6F 0x72 0x69 0x74 0x79

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x4D 0x49 0x4E 0x4F 0x52 0x49 0x54 0x59

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “minority”

Lowercase: 109 105 110 111 114 105 116 121

Upprcase: 77 73 78 79 82 73 84 89

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “minority”

Lowercase: 155 151 156 157 162 151 164 171

Upprcase: 115 111 116 117 122 111 124 131

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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