Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

CROAKED

Definition: CROAKED

CROAKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Croak

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CROAKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)


Use in Literature: CROAKED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

His voice croaked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: CROAKED

"CROAKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "CROAKED" is used about 138 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)95.65%13227,743
Lexical Verb (past participle)2.9%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)1.45%2245,945
                    Total100.00%138N/A

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

Top     

Modern Translation: CROAKED

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

Chinese 

  

呱呱地叫 (Croaking). (various references)

   

German

  

quakte. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oakedcray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: CROAKED

Misspellings

"CROAKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: criacao, croamed, crookeder, crooket, cruked. (additional references)

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

Top     

Anagrams: CROAKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-k-o-r"

-1 letter: arcked, carked, corked, dacker, docker, racked, redock, rocked.

-2 letters: acred, adore, arced, cadre, caked, cared, cedar, coder, coked, cored, crake, creak, credo, croak, decor, drake, dreck, oared, ocker, ocrea, oread, raced, raked.

-3 letters: aced, acre, aero, arco, cade, cake, card, care, cark, cero, coda, code, coed, coke, cord, core, cork, dace, dare, dark.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-k-o-r"
 

+2 letters: blockader, dreadlock.

 

+3 letters: blockaders, dockmaster, dreadlocks, jackrolled, pockmarked.

 

+4 letters: archdukedom, backcrossed, backdropped, crookbacked, dockmasters, roadblocked, sockdolager, spatterdock.

 

+5 letters: archdukedoms, backgrounded, backgrounder, checkerboard, hydrocracked, hydrocracker, overpackaged, postcardlike, sockdolagers, spatterdocks.

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.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.