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Definition: CHUCKLED |
CHUCKLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Chuckle |
Date "CHUCKLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Monsieur Fromagin, left alone among his epiceries, chuckled audibly. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The Professor chuckled again. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men in the tent chuckled. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CHUCKLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 98.12% of the time. "CHUCKLED" is used about 426 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 98.12% | 418 | 13,577 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 426 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CHUCKLED": chuckled-gently. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHUCKLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 轻声笑 (Chuckling). (various references) | ||||
German | gluckste (chortled). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uckledchay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CHUCKLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chack'ed, chuck'em, chuckl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHUCKLED" (pronounced khu"kuld) |
| 5 | -u" k u l d | buckled, knuckled. |
| 4 | -k u l d | bespectacled, bicycled, chronicled, circled, crackled, cycled, encircled, freckled, heckled, pickled, rankled, recycled, shackled, sparkled, speckled, sprinkled, tackled, tickled, tinkled, trickled, unshackled, wrinkled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bevelled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, spiraled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-k-l-u" | |
-1 letter: chucked, chuckle, clucked. | |
-2 letters: huckle, hulked, lucked. | |
-3 letters: check, chuck, cluck, clued, culch. | |
-4 letters: clue, cued, cuke, deck, duce, duck, duel, duke, heck, held, huck, hued, hulk, lech, leku, leud, luce, luck, lude. | |
-5 letters: cel, cud, cue, del, due, duh, ecu, edh, eld, elk, hue, kue, led, lek, leu, uke. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-k-l-u" | |
+3 letters: chucklehead. | |
+4 letters: chuckleheads. | |
+5 letters: chuckleheaded, shuttlecocked. | |
| 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)43 48 55 43 4B 4C 45 44 |
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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)01000011 01001000 01010101 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H U C K L E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0055 0043 004B 004C 0045 0044 |
| 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)3742553745463938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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