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Definition: FLINCHED |
FLINCHEDImperative & past participle1. Of Flinch |
Date "FLINCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: FLINCHED |
| English words defined with "FLINCHED": nastiness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLINCHED": Flinch. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Not even when he thought he was lost had he flinched. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FLINCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "FLINCHED" is used about 198 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 95.45% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.55% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
flinched | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLINCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | zurückgewichen, wich zurück. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inchedflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLINCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fliched, flinche, flnished. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLINCHED" (pronounced fli"nkht) |
| 5 | -l i" n kh t | clinched, lynched. |
| 4 | -i" n kh t | cinched, inched, pinched. |
| 3 | -n kh t | branched, bunched, clenched, crunched, drenched, entrenched, hunched, launched, lunched, munched, punched, relaunched, retrenched, scrunched, stanched, wrenched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-h-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: filched. | |
-2 letters: chield, childe, chined, flench, flinch, inched, lichen, niched. | |
-3 letters: chide, chief, chiel, child, chile, chine, cline, elfin, felid, fiche, field, fiend, filch, filed, finch, fined, flied, lined, niche. | |
-4 letters: cedi, ceil, chef, chid, chin, cine, clef, defi, deil, delf, deli, deni, dice, diel, dine, elhi, fend, fice, file, find, fine, fled, flic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-f-h-i-l-n" | |
+2 letters: candlefish. | |
+3 letters: goldfinches. | |
+4 letters: candlefishes. | |
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