TOFT

  

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TOFT

Definition: TOFT

TOFT

Noun

1. A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

2. A grove of trees; also, a plain.

3. A knoll or hill.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TOFT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Etymology: Toft \Toft\, noun. [from Old English expression toft knoll; akin to Low German toft field hedged in, not far from house, Icelandic topt green knoll, grassy place, place marked out for house, Danish toft.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: TOFT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft.

Property

Landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground; (earth); acquest, messuage, toft.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TOFT

English words defined with "TOFT": Toftman. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TOFT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (thwart).

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Usage Frequency: TOFT

"TOFT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "TOFT" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)70%7133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)10%1339,140
Noun (singular)10%1339,140
Noun (common)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: TOFT

The following table summarizes the usage of "TOFT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ToftLast name40022,575
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TOFT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

richard toft

23

p richard toft

18

toft tree

4

toft

3

karl toft

2

resort toft tree

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOFT

Language Translations for "TOFT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Kodrinë (Foothill, hillock, hummock, hump, knoll). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чифлик (homestead), Хълмче. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Belsõség (harslet, haslet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ofttay

   

Portuguese

  

Pequena Quinta, Lar (abode, firebox, fireside, hearthstone, home, hosteler, inglorious). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Усадьба (Barton). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kuća sa okućnicom, brežuljak (hill, hummock, knoll, monticule). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TOFT

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOFT": tofts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TOFT"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TOFT" (pronounced tÄ"ft)
3-Ä" f tcoughed, soft, waft.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TOFT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-o-t-t"

-1 letter: oft, tot.

-2 letters: of, to.

 Words containing the letters "f-o-t-t"
 

+1 letter: tofts.

 

+2 letters: oftest, outfit.

 

+3 letters: aftmost, flattop, fouette, foxtrot, futtock, hotfoot, mofette, outfast, outfelt, outfits, outfoot, softest.

 

+4 letters: confetti, confetto, factotum, falsetto, faltboat, fatstock, fetation, fistnote, flatboat, flatfoot, flattops, footbath, footiest, footnote, footpath, footrest, footstep, fortieth, fortuity, fossette, fouettes, foxtrots, frontlet, frostbit, frottage, frotteur, futtocks, haftarot, haftorot, hotfoots, leftmost, loftiest, mofettes, moffette, nonfatty, oftenest, ofttimes, outfasts, outfeast, outfight, outfoots, pettifog, reoutfit, retrofit, toplofty.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOFT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 46 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    ..-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01000110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#70 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0046 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54494054

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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