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Definition: Clunk |
ClunkNoun1. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects). Verb1. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ClunkSynonyms: thud (n), thump (n), thumping (n), clop (v), clump (v), plunk (v). (additional references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Zip; pop; fast getaway; disappear; whip; poof; clunk. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Clunk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.55% of the time. "Clunk" is used about 31 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 93.55% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clunk": clunk-click, clunk-clicking, Clunk-click-mumble, clunk-thunk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clunk | 13 |
click clunk | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clunk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | unalmas alak (bromide, drip, dryasdust), ostoba alak (goon, punk, soft, sot), erős ütés (bash, crump, heavy blow, slog, slug, soak, swipe, thump), dördülés (report). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkclay стучать (drum, knock, pink, rap, thump). (various references) เสียงที่เกิ"จากโลหะกระทบกัน (tang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clunk": clunked, clunker, clunkers, clunkier, clunkiest, clunking, clunks, clunky. (additional references) | |
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"Clunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clunck, Clune, Clunt, cluny, clurk, counc, culn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clunk" (pronounced klu"ngk) |
| 4 | -l u" ng k | flunk, plunk. |
| 3 | -u" ng k | bunk, chunk, debunk, drunk, Dunk, funk, hunk, junk, monk, punk, shrunk, skunk, Spunk, stunk, sunk, trunk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: luck, lunk. | |
-3 letters: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: clunks, clunky, unlock. | |
+2 letters: clunked, clunker, gunlock, knuckle, knuckly, locknut, lucking, unblock, uncloak, unlocks, unlucky. | |
+3 letters: buckling, bullneck, caulking, chunkily, clucking, clunkers, clunkier, clunking, cufflink, duckling, gunlocks, knuckled, knuckler, knuckles, locknuts, penuckle, plucking, ruckling, sculking, suckling, sunblock, unblocks, unbuckle, uncloaks, unlicked, unlocked. | |
+4 letters: bullnecks, caulkings, chuckling, clunkiest, cufflinks, ducklings, knucklers, knucklier, knuckling, luckiness, penuckles, sucklings, sunblocks, truckline, truckling, unblocked, unbuckled, unbuckles, uncloaked, unlocking, unluckier, unluckily, unshackle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 75 6E 6B |
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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 01101100 01110101 01101110 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l u n k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0075 006E 006B |
| 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)3778878077 |
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