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Definition: FLOPPED |
FLOPPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Flop |
Date "FLOPPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Crosswords: FLOPPED |
| English words defined with "FLOPPED": flop. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Gertie]. Then picking up the whip he dropped she lammed that driver till he flopped .. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Two of the supports of the porch roof were pushed out so that the roof flopped down on one end. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FLOPPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 87.66% of the time. "FLOPPED" is used about 154 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) | 87.66% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 11.69% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 154 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FLOPPED": belly-flopped, flip-flopped. | |
| 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 |
flopped | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLOPPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 扑通放下 (Flopping). (various references) | |
German | versagte (malfunctioned), fiel herein. (various references) | |
Korean | 툭 던지는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppedflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLOPPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filopod, fiopped, flippen, flope, Floppo, flopt, foped, fopped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLOPPED" (pronounced flÄ"pt) |
| 4 | -l Ä" p t | lopped, plopped. |
| 3 | -Ä" p t | adopt, chopped, copped, cropped, dropped, hopped, mopped, opt, popped, propped, shopped, stopped, swapped, topped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-o-p-p" | |
-1 letter: fopped, lopped. | |
-2 letters: loped, poled. | |
-3 letters: delf, dole, dope, feod, fled, floe, flop, fold, lode, lope, oped, pelf, pepo, pled, plod, plop, pole, pope. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dol, eld, elf, fed, foe, fop, led, lop, ode, old, ole, ope, ped, pep, pod, pol, pop. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, el, lo, od, oe, of, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l-o-p-p" | |
+3 letters: dropperful. | |
+4 letters: dropperfuls, droppersful. | |
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