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Definition: Clanger |
ClangerNoun1. (British) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Clanger |
| Specialty definitions using "clanger": clauncher. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Clanger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Clanger" is used about 20 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) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "clanger": drop a clanger. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "clanger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | udìlat faux pas (drop a clanger, make a gaffe), seknout se (blunder, drop a clanger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entgleisung (derailment, gaffe), ausrutscher (gaffe, slip, slip up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | angerclay грубый промах. (various references) ข้อผิ"พลา"ที่เกิ"จากความสะเพร่า. (various references) pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, contretemps, crease, faux pas, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clanger": clangers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: glancer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angler, glance, lancer, regnal. | |
-2 letters: angel, anger, angle, argle, cager, caner, carle, clang, clean, clear, crane, glace, glare, glean, gnarl, grace, lacer, lager, lance, large, learn, nacre, rance, range, regal, regna, renal. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, ager, alec, cage, cane, care, carl, carn, clag, clan, crag, earl, earn, egal, elan, gaen, gale, gane, gear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: clangers, clearing, glancers, relacing. | |
+2 letters: archangel, cellaring, clangored, clavering, clearings, clearwing, clergyman, declaring, flagrance, gerfalcon, lackering, neuralgic, parceling, recalling, recoaling, rectangle, replacing, rescaling. | |
+3 letters: allergenic, archangels, becrawling, calipering, camerlengo, carmagnole, challenger, clabbering, clambering, clangoured, clattering, clearwings, corelating, cradlesong, flagrances, gerfalcons, granduncle, lacerating, lacquering, marcelling, parcelling, preplacing, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, rectangles, relocating, retackling, ulcerating, ungraceful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 61 6E 67 65 72 |
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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 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a n g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 006E 0067 0065 0072 |
| 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)37786780737184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, чешский, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | nìmec, nìmecký, немецкий, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, русский, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turecký, tureètina, türkisch, турецкий, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglicky, englisch, английский, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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