SCALPED

Definition: SCALPED

SCALPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Scalp

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SCALPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms by domain: Safety call and localisation of elderly and disabled people (medicine), scalp, scalping (metallurgymedicineeuropean union, metallurgybuilding & civil engineering, transportationfood & agriculturemining), scalps (food & agriculture), Small Card Automater Layout Program (computing), to scalp (finance).

Crosswords: SCALPED

Specialty definitions using "SCALPED": LINER ASSEMBLER ♦ scalped anticline, SCALPER OPERATOR, scalp-machine operator. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all. (Lonesome Dove; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Robert McGee, scalped by Sioux Chief Little Turtle in 1864 / E.E. Henry, photographer.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"SCALPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "SCALPED" is used about 13 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 participle)	53.85%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (past tense)	23.08%	3	202,518
Adjective (general or positive)	15.38%	2	245,945
Unclassified Items	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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Language		Translations for "SCALPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		skalpierte. (various references)

Hebrew		מקורקף (decorticated, skinned). (various references)

Pig Latin		alpedscay

Russian		скальпировать скапированный. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SCALPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scallet, scalpe, scamped, scaped, scaple, scapped, sculped. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SCALPED" (pronounced ska"lpt)
3	-l p t	gulped, helped, sculpt.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: clasped.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-p-s"
	-1 letter: clades, decals, lapsed, padles, pedals, placed, places, pleads, scaled, scaped, spaced.
	-2 letters: alecs, cades, caped, capes, cased, clade, clads, claps, clasp, daces, dales, deals, decal, laced, laces, lades, lapse, lased, leads, leaps, paced, paces, padle, paled, pales, peals, pedal, place, plead, pleas, salep, scald, scale, scalp, scape, sepal, space, spade, spaed, spale.
	-3 letters: aced, aces, alec, ales, alps, aped, apes, apse, cade, cads, cape, caps, case, cels, ceps, clad, clap, dace, dale, dals, daps, deal, dels, elds, lace, lacs, lade, lads, laps, lase, lead, leap, leas, pace, pacs, pads, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, pecs, peds, plea, pled, sade, sale, salp, scad, seal, slap, sled, spae, spec, sped.
	-4 letters: ace, ads, ale, alp, als, ape, asp, cad, cap, cel, cep, dal, dap, del, eds, eld, els, lac, lad, lap, las, lea, led, pac, pad, pal, pas, pea, pec, ped, pes, sac, sad, sae, sal, sap, sea, sec, sel, spa.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, as, de, ed, el, es, la, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-p-s"
	+1 letter: capsuled, displace, pedocals, spackled, upscaled.
	+2 letters: asclepiad, beclasped, clepsydra, clodpates, collapsed, displaced, displaces, enclasped, escaloped, inclasped, landscape, misplaced, opalesced, reclasped, scalloped, slipcased, spanceled, unclasped.
	+3 letters: asclepiads, backpedals, candlepins, capsulated, capsulized, clepsydrae, clepsydras, cloudscape, despicable, despicably, duplicates, encapsuled, episodical, escalloped, landscaped, landscaper, landscapes, packsaddle, placidness, septicidal, spancelled, spectacled, speculated.
	+4 letters: acidophiles, backslapped, camelopards, capitalised, cardplayers, cephalopods, cloudscapes, cyclopedias, diplomacies, endoplasmic, feldspathic, landscapers, packsaddles, peccadillos, pediculates, periodicals, placidities, plasticized, predicables, procedurals, psychedelia, relandscape, scolopendra, spacewalked, specialised, specialized, spermicidal, supplicated.
	+5 letters: accomplished, bespectacled, candlepowers, cyclopaedias, decomposable, despotically, dimercaprols, discrepantly, displaceable, displacement, encapsulated, episodically, kaleidoscope, nucleocapsid, paramedicals, peccadilloes, phylloclades, placeholders, placidnesses, postcardlike, psychedelias, pterodactyls, reduplicates, relandscaped, relandscapes, scolopendras, thunderclaps.
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