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Definition: Crumpet |
CrumpetNoun1. Raised muffin cooked on a griddle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CrumpetSynonym: English muffin (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Crumpet and Sparky will be here before you can name the reindeer (The Ultimate Christmas Present; writing credit: Hallie Einhorn; Michael Hitchcock) Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Christopher Crumpet (1953) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Crumpet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Crumpet" is used about 26 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) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crumpet": a bit of crumpet ♦ a nice peace of crumpet ♦ barmy on the crumpet. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
crumpet | 25 |
crumpet recipe | 16 |
crumpet ring | 3 |
crumpet english | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crumpet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kulaç (bun, griddle cake, Scone), gurabije. (various references) | |
Arabic | كعكة مسطحة وغير محلاة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), препечена питка. (various references) | |
Czech | lívanec (griddle cake, griddlecake, pancake, slap jack, slapjack, waffle). (various references) | |
French | une belle nana (a bit of crumpet). (various references) | |
German | Teekuchen (short bread, shortcakes). (various references) | |
Greek | είδοσ πλακουντίου, τηγανίτα (fritter, griddlecake, muffin, pancake, slap jack, waffle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עו'י" (biscuit, cookie, snap). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teasütemény (biscuit, muffin, pikelet, small cakes, tea-biscuit), punci (coot, tail), kobak (bean, can, coconut, gourd, nob, noddle, pate), közösülés (bang, coition, coitus, copulation, coupling, ficky-fick, futz, intercourse, mating, niggling, sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
Italian | frittella (fritter, fritters, pancake). (various references) | |
Manx | crumpag, bwoirrinagh (cow, doe, female, female any age, girl, lass, wench). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umpetcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bolo fino. (various references) | |
Romanian | ţãcãnit (barmy on the crumpet, chatter, click, crack-brained, kook, loony, rattle, rattling, snap). (various references) | |
Russian | пышка (pikelet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgodna žena, čajni kolač. (various references) | |
Spanish | jais (tail), jai (bimbo, doll), bollo (bash, biscuit, boss, bun, Scone). (various references) | |
Swedish | skalle (conk, cranium, dome, loaf, noddle, noggin, pate, skull), mjuk tekaka, boll (ball, leaf, nut, pill, shot, stroke). (various references) | |
Turkish | seksi kadın, kızarmış hamur tatlısı, fıstık (bit of fluff, fluff, peanut, pistachio). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | здобна булочка (bun). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | g n dở (cranky). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crumpet": crumpets. (additional references) | |
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"Crumpet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chrompac, creepeth, Crombet, crompett, croompet, crumpe, crumped, Cumpsty, scrumpet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "crumpet" (pronounced 'Crump"et'): Acquiet, Anet, Armet, Becket, Blushet, Brocket, Budget, Bushet, Cachet, Chewet, Chuet, Claret, Clicket, Comet, Crevet, Crewet, Crocket, Crownet, Cruet, Flacket, Flasket, freshet, grivet, HATCHET, Latchet, Levet, locket, Malet, midget, Miscovet, Moonet, Nidget, Nymphet, Owlet, Piet, Placket, Planchet, Planet, Plashet, Pledget, Poet, Poket, Popet, Porket, Pricket, Privet, Prophet, Puet, Purset, Pyet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: precut, rectum. | |
-2 letters: crept, cruet, crump, curet, cuter, eruct, erupt, muter, recut, truce, trump. | |
-3 letters: cure, curt, cute, ecru, mure, mute, perm, pert, puce, pure, rump, temp, term, true, tump. | |
-4 letters: cep, cue, cum, cup, cur, cut, ecu, emu, met, mut, pec, per, pet, pur, put, rec, rem, rep, ret, rue, rum, rut, tup. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: computer, crumpets, plectrum, spectrum. | |
+2 letters: computers, plectrums, recompute, spectrums. | |
+3 letters: crumpliest, metacarpus, precompute, procumbent, recomputed, recomputes, recoupment. | |
+4 letters: champertous, circumspect, computerdom, computerese, computerise, computerist, computerize, computernik, intercampus, mucoprotein, noncomputer, perithecium, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, proctodaeum, procurement, recomputing, recoupments, supremacist. | |
+5 letters: computerdoms, computereses, computerised, computerises, computerists, computerized, computerizes, computerless, computerlike, computerniks, macropterous, minicomputer, mucoproteins, multipicture, precomputers, precomputing, proctodaeums, procurements, supremacists, thermocouple, unimportance. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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