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Definition: Franck |
FranckNoun1. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Franck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: FranckSynonym: James Franck (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Franck Small and Associates (politics & international affaires), Franck-Condon principle (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Franck |
| English words defined with "Franck": Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz ♦ Hertz ♦ James Franck. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Franck Keller (2003) | |
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Business | Jacques Dessange and Franck Provost are also benefiting from the current growth of this sector. (references) | |
Hairdressing franchises also performed well, with 49 openings by Tchip and 45 by Franck Provost. (references) | ||
The sector continued to perform well through 1999. Two hairdressing franchises, Tchip and Franck Provost, registered record openings in 1999, with 49 and 45, respectively. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | For example, on March 15 five policemen beat Franck Konate, a journalist for the pro-PDCI newspaper L'Aurore, who was investigating the shooting of a thief by five policemen near the commando camp in Koumassi. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Franck" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "Franck" is used about 27 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 (proper) | 85.19% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Franck" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Franck | Last name | 1,000 | 8,834 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Franck": James Franck. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Franck": Franck-Condon. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Franck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Franck-Condon princip (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Franck-Condonprincipe (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Franck-Condonin periaate (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | principe de Franck-Condon (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Franck-Condon-Prinzip (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρχή Franck-Condon (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | principio di Franck-Condon (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anckfray principio de Franck-Condon (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) principio de Franck-Condon (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) Franck-Condon-principen (Franck-Condon principle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Franck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frack, Franch, Francke, Franek, Franzke, Frenk, Granick, Trancik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: crank, franc, frank. | |
-2 letters: cark, carn, karn, knar, narc, nark, rack, rank. | |
-3 letters: arc, arf, ark, can, car, fan, far, kaf, ran. | |
-4 letters: an, ar, fa, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-k-n-r" | |
+3 letters: fancywork, kingcraft, scarfskin. | |
+4 letters: backfiring, cornflakes, crankshaft, fancyworks, kingcrafts, scarfskins. | |
+5 letters: crankshafts, trafficking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 61 6E 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000110 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r a n c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0061 006E 0063 006B |
| 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)408467806977 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
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