INCHED

Definitions: INCHED

INCHED

Adjective

1. Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Inch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "INCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Crosswords: INCHED

Specialty definitions using "INCHED": inching starter. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Al grumbled as he inched the touring car down, and up the other side.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Indonesia	Imports, while still far from their pre-crisis level of $41.7 billion in 1997, inched up in 2000 to $26.5 billion from the 1999 level of $24.0 billion. (references)
	Rwanda	The government began the long-awaited genocide trials, which got off to an uncertain start in the closing days of 1996 and inched forward in 1997. In 2001, the government began implementation of a participatory justice system, known as "gacaca" in order to address the enormous backlog of cases. (references)
Political Economy	Israel	As the peace process between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza inched forward, the peace process between Israel and Jordan made major strides. (references)
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"INCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "INCHED" is used about 77 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)	90.91%	70	39,981
Lexical Verb (past participle)	9.09%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	77	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "INCHED": half-inched.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "INCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		移动 (Budge, Budged, Budging, Inching, MOVE, trundle). (various references)

Korean		조금�"� 움직이�". (various references)

Pig Latin		incheday

Turkish		inçlik (inch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "INCHED": cinched, clinched, flinched, pinched, squinched, unclinched, winched. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"INCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aincher, Annchen, enchada, Enschede, Ginschel, Inchard, inche, incho, Inchoh, incred, Inhadi, inhe, inhed, Minchem, n'heed, niched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "INCHED" (pronounced i"nkht)
4	i" n kh t	cinched, clinched, flinched, lynched, 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
	Direct Anagrams: chined, niched.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-n"
	-1 letter: chide, chine, niche.
	-2 letters: cedi, chid, chin, cine, deni, dice, dine, hide, hied, hind, iced, inch, nice, nide.
	-3 letters: chi, den, die, din, edh, end, hen, hic, hid, hie, hin, ice, ich.
	-4 letters: de, ed, eh, en, he, hi, id, in, ne.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-n"
	+1 letter: chained, chidden, chinked, chinned, cinched, echidna, hedonic, pinched, winched.
	+2 letters: chicaned, children, clinched, echidnae, echidnas, echinoid, enriched, flinched, hacienda, hedonics, inarched, lichened, machined, richened, snitched.
	+3 letters: anhedonic, archfiend, chagrined, chickened, chondrite, coheading, coinhered, cushioned, dehiscent, dehiscing, detaching, drenching, echinoids, enchained, enchilada, eunuchoid, haciendas, hindrance, squinched, thickened, threnodic, unchained, uncliched, unhitched.
	+4 letters: achondrite, archfiends, candlefish, chagrinned, chainsawed, chairmaned, championed, chandelier, chiffonade, chondrites, chowdering, christened, chronicled, debauching, debouching, dehiscence, disenchant, echinoderm, enchiladas, enchiridia, enciphered, endarchies, endolithic, endophytic, endothecia, eunuchoids, franchised, haciendado, handpicked, hedonistic, hindrances, intrenched, machinated, mechanized, outchidden, sandwiched, sandwiches, scheduling, unachieved, unclinched, unenriched, unstitched.
	+5 letters: achondrites, anticathode, bedrenching, cachinnated, caddishness, candlelight, cantharides, chairmanned, chalcedonic, chandeliers, chandelling, chandleries, channelized, chiffonades, chlorinated, deciphering, dehiscences, deinonychus, despatching, diachronies, diencephala, disenchants, echinoderms, enchiridion, endomorphic, endothecium, endothermic, endotrophic, frenchified, godchildren, goldfinches, haciendados, handicapped, handicapper, hedonically, hemodynamic, hornblendic, icosahedron, indehiscent, merchandise, merchandize, pitchblende, stanchioned, stickhandle, synecdochic, trichinized, unchildlike.
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