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Definition: FLOUNDERED |
FLOUNDEREDImperative & past participle1. Of Flounder |
Date "FLOUNDERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Crosswords: FLOUNDERED |
| Specialty definitions using "FLOUNDERED": Countess di Civillari. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They floundered in the mud and dug their wheels down until finally the drivers cut off the motors and sat still, looking into the headlight beams |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Rights | Djibouti | Previous efforts by both the legal and unrecognized opposition parties to unify also floundered due to disagreements among their leaders over who should lead a unified opposition. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FLOUNDERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.05% of the time. "FLOUNDERED" is used about 61 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) | 77.05% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.95% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FLOUNDERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 挣扎 (Agonize, Agonized, Agonizing, Floundering). (various references) | |
German | zappelte. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ounderedflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Flesus flesus, Platichthys flesus, Pleuronectes flesus, Pleuronectidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLOUNDERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: floundrered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLOUNDERED" (pronounced flou"nderd) |
| 5 | -ou" n d er d | foundered. |
| 4 | -n d er d | blundered, laundered, engendered, gerrymandered, hindered, meandered, nonstandard, pandered, plundered, pondered, rendered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, surrendered, tendered, thundered, unhindered, wandered, wondered. |
| 3 | -d er d | bewildered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, murdered, ordered, powdered, reconsidered, shouldered, shuddered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-f-l-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: foundered, refounded. | |
-2 letters: enfolded, enfolder, flounder, fluorene, loudened, refolded, refunded, underfed, unfolded, unfolder. | |
-3 letters: deluder, denuder, endured, feruled, floured, fondled, fondler, founded, founder, fronded, needful, redound, refound, rounded, roundel, underdo, unfreed, urodele. | |
-4 letters: defend, defund, delude, denude, droned, dudeen, dueled, dueler, duende, durned, eluded, eluder, endued, endure, enduro, enfold, enured, eroded, fended, fender, ferule. | |
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