IDLED

Definition: IDLED

IDLED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Idle

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "IDLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Crosswords: IDLED

Specialty definitions using "IDLED": Acreage Reduction Program ♦ Brownfields ♦ FAILURE ♦ Haying and grazing rules. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Urban areas are also coping with millions of state workers idled on partial wages or unemployed as a result of industrial reforms. (references)
Worker Rights	Haiti	Workers were idled while the port remained closed for approximately 1 month. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"IDLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 84.00% of the time. "IDLED" is used about 25 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)	84%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (past participle)	16%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "IDLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		虚度光阴 (idling). (various references)

German		faulenzte (lazed, lounged). (various references)

Korean		헛도�". (various references)

Pig Latin		idleday.(various references)

Turkish		işsiz güçsüz (at an end, idle), boşta (fancy-free, out of gear, unattached, unemployed), başıboş (adrift, footloose, idle, rambling, roving, straggling, straggly, stray, strayed, vagabond, vagrant), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering, yob). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "IDLED": bridled, sidled, unbridled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"IDLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adled, diddledy, diddleydo, dild, dilex, edled, ided, idel, idiled, idlek, idley, idli, idlot, idole, idyle, ilde, irdle, odled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "IDLED" (pronounced ī"duld)
5	ī" d u l d	bridled, unbridled.
4	-d u l d	addled, backpedaled, befuddled, bundled, coddled, cuddled, dwindled, fiddled, fondled, handled, huddled, kindled, ladled, manhandled, mishandled, modeled, muddled, needled, paddled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, rekindled, remodeled, riddled, saddled, straddled, swindled, trundled, widdled.
3	-u l d	ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fizzled, flanneled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, humbled, hustled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mislabeled, mottled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paneled, parceled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, tumbled, tussled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l"
	-1 letter: deil, deli, died, diel, idle, lied.
	-2 letters: del, did, die, eld, led, lei, lid, lie.
	-3 letters: de, ed, el, id, li.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l"
	+1 letter: dialed, diddle, dildoe, dilled, dindle, dirled, doiled, dreidl, elided, fiddle, gilded, glided, laddie, lidded, middle, piddle, riddle, sidled, widdle.
	+2 letters: addible, alidade, bielded, blinded, bridled, builded, dallied, defiled, delimed, deltoid, deviled, dialled, dibbled, diddled, diddler, diddles, diddley, dilated, dildoes, diluted, dimpled, dindled, dindles, dollied, dreidel, dreidls, drilled, dwindle, fiddled, fiddler, fiddles, fielded, girdled, griddle, kindled, laddies, lyddite, middled, middler, middles, piddled, piddler, piddles, plaided, riddled, riddler, riddles, slidden, tiddler, twiddle, widdled, widdles, wielded, windled, yielded.
	+3 letters: alidades, beladied, biddable, bloodied, brindled, buddleia, childbed, cloddier, collided, cuddlier, deadlier, deadlift, deadline, decidual, declined, defilade, deicidal, delisted, deltoids, deluding, dentiled, derailed, detailed, devilled, dialoged, dialysed, dialyzed, diddlers, diddleys, diddlies, dieldrin, dieseled, dihedral, disabled, disliked, dislodge, displode, divulged, dreidels, dribbled, driveled, drizzled, dualized, dwindled, dwindles, engilded, fiddlers, griddled, griddles, hiddenly, idolised, idolized, imploded, included, indulged, infolded, islanded, landside, lopsided, lyddites, meddling, middlers, midfield, mildened, mildewed, mudslide, peddling, pedicled, piddlers, puddlier, reddling, redialed, redlined, regilded, riddlers, shielded, sledding, spindled, splendid, swindled, tiddlers, tideland, trindled, twiddled, twiddler, twiddles, unriddle, wildered.
	+4 letters: adenoidal, advisedly, aldehydic, bedeviled, bedimpled, begirdled, birdlimed, blindside, buddleias, childbeds, cloddiest, cuddliest, dandelion, daredevil, datelined, deadliest, deadlifts, deadlight, deadlines, decidable, decidedly, declaimed, deducible, defiladed, defilades, deleading, delighted, delimited, delivered, deltoidei, demiworld, depilated, despoiled, devilwood, dialogued, dieldrins, dihedrals, diplomaed, discalced, discipled, disclosed, dishelmed, dislimned, dislodged, dislodges, dispelled, displaced, displayed, disploded, displodes, displumed, dissolved, distilled, disulfide, disvalued, dividable, dividedly, domiciled, downfield, downslide, drivelled, dulcified, enfiladed, engirdled, enkindled, fluidised, fluidized, glissaded, goldfield, headlined, holidayed, idealised, idealized, impleaded, impledged, invalided, laddering, landsides, landslide, lapidated, melodised, melodized, middleman, middlemen, midfields, misdialed, mislodged, mudslides, palisaded, pinfolded, puddliest, rebuilded, redialled, redrilled, rekindled, ridiculed, sidelined, sleddings, soldiered, studiedly, tendriled, tidelands, treddling, twiddlers, twiddlier, unblinded, unbridled, undefiled, underlaid, undiluted, undrilled, unriddled, unriddles, validated, videoland, worldwide.
	+5 letters: acidulated, additively, admittedly, bedevilled, bedriveled, befuddling, begladding, bemuddling, bewildered, blandished, blindsided, blindsides, cylindered, dandelions, daredevils, daylighted, deadlifted, deadlights, deadliness, deductible, defilading, defoliated, delineated, deltoideus, demiworlds, demolished, depolished, deridingly, designedly, desilvered, detailedly, devilwoods, diabolized, dieselized, dilapidate, diploidies, disallowed, disboweled, disclaimed, discolored, disheveled, dislocated, dismantled, disobliged, disorderly, dispeopled, displanted, displeased, disrelated, dissembled, disulfides, dovetailed, downslides, duodecimal, duplicated, elucidated, epididymal, feudalized, fiddleback, fiddlehead, gladdening, goldfields, goodwilled, gridlocked, imboldened, intendedly, ladderlike, landladies, landslides, lapidified, liquidated, liquidized, lopsidedly, maledicted, manifolded, middlebrow, midfielder, misdialled, misfielded, mishandled, mispleaded, multisided, outyielded, overgilded, paddlefish, paradiddle, peddleries, podzolized, predrilled, railroaded, resaddling, saddleries, sidesaddle, solidified, splendider, splendidly, taradiddle, tendrilled, twiddliest, unbloodied, underlined, unshielded, vandalised, vandalized, videolands, vilipended, wildcatted, windlassed, windmilled, windshield.
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