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Definition: Darnel |
DarnelNoun1. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "darnel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Etymology: Darnel \Dar"nel\, noun. [from Old English expression darnel, dernel, of uncertain origin; compare to dial. French darnelle, Swedish d[*a]r-repe; perhaps named from supposed intoxicating quality of the plant, and akin to Swedish d[*a]ra to infatuate, OD. door foolish, German thor fool, and Ee. dizzy.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DarnelSynonyms: bearded darnel (n), cheat (n), tare (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Darnel |
| English words defined with "darnel": Boza ♦ Drank ♦ genus Lolium ♦ Lolium ♦ Ray grass. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "darnel": Tares. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "darnel": Zizania. (references) |
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| "Darnel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Darnel" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "darnel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Darnel | Last name | 100 | 86,262 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "darnel": bearded darnel ♦ red darnel. 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 |
darnel | 36 |
darnel jones | 7 |
darnel devan moore | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "darnel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | رفو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глушица, бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild), плевел (cockle, weed). (various references) | |
Danish | giftig rajgraes (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), almindelig rajgræs (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel). (various references) | |
Dutch | dolik (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass). (various references) | |
Finnish | myrkkyraiheinä (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), myrkkyluste (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), englanninraiheinä (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel). (various references) | |
French | reprise (darn), ivraie. (various references) | |
German | deutsches Weidelgras (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel), Taumellolch (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), englisches Raygras (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel). (various references) | |
Greek | ζιζάνιο (jackanapes, tare, weed), αίρα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | konkolyperje. (various references) | |
Italian | zizzania (discord), loglio (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass). (various references) | |
Manx | jerlyn, jeayn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arnelday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | joio (tare, weed). (various references) | |
Romanian | zizanie (cockle), sãlbãţie. (various references) | |
Russian | плевел. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kukolj (cockle), korov (weed, weeds). (various references) | |
Spanish | valluco perenne (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel), trigollo (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), ray grass ingles (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel), joyo (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), cominillo (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), cizaña embriagante (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), borrachuela (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass). (various references) | |
Swedish | dårrepe (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass), engelskt rajgräs (beardless ryegrass, common ryegrass, English ryegrass, perennial blue tagged, perennial ryegrass, red darnel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aera, aeris, Lolium perenne L., Lolium temulentum, zizania, zizaniorum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "darnel": darnels. (additional references) | |
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"Darnel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arnel, Arsnell, Dagnall, Dagnell, damnwell, Daneel, daneil, Dannell, dariel, darlen, darne, darnell, darnes, Darney, darrel, Dartnall, Dartnell, Dearne, Dearnley, Dennell, derne, Dernhelm, Dienel, dinnel, dirkel, dorel, dunel, Durtnell, Ederney, Farnol, Jarnell, marnel, tarnal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "darnel" (pronounced dÄ"rnul) |
| 5 | -Ä" r n u l | carnal. |
| 4 | -r n u l | cornel. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lander. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: alder, denar, eland, laden, lader, learn, naled, redan, renal. | |
-2 letters: dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, earl, earn, elan, lade, land, lane, lard, lead, lean, lear, lend, nard, near, nerd, rale, rand, read, real, rend. | |
-3 letters: ale, and, ane, are, dal, del, den, ear, eld, end, era, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, nae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: adrenal, blander, candler, dandler, dangler, darnels, gnarled, handler, ladrone, landers, landler, launder, learned, lurdane, mandrel, rankled, slander, snarled. | |
+2 letters: adrenals, alderman, aldermen, antlered, ardently, banderol, bilander, calendar, calender, candlers, chandler, colander, conelrad, crankled, dandlers, danglers, dentural, dragline, enlarged, foreland, glanders, handlers, hardline, inlander, islander, ladrones, landlers, launders, lavender, lurdanes, mandrels, oleander, overland, pendular, rehandle, reloaned, renailed, repandly, slanders, solander, spandrel, underlap, underlay, unloader, uplander, wrangled. | |
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