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Definition: Pickford |
PickfordNoun1. United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PickfordSynonyms: Gladys Smith (n), Mary Pickford (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pickford |
| English words defined with "Pickford": Mary Pickford. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Mary Pickford; Ca. 1927; {28.026/5}. | ![]() | Mary Pickford, full-length portrait, seated in motion picture studio, facing left, wearing costume for "Sparrows," knitting sweater for disabled veterans for the American Red Cross between scenes.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Fauntleroy".Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Pickford, Mary, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Portrait photograph of Mary Pickford.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mary Pickford in the movie, "The Pretender"] / 2-Stenberg-2.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pickford" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pickford" is used about 26 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) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Pickford" 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 |
| Pickford | Last name | 300 | 26,177 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Pickford, MI |
Expression using "Pickford": Mary Pickford. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "Pickford": fairbanks-pickford-chaplin-griffith. | |
| 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 |
mary pickford | 131 |
pickford mi | 18 |
pickford | 17 |
mary pickford theater | 10 |
escrow pickford | 10 |
biography mary pickford | 7 |
mary pickford picture | 5 |
cinema pickford | 5 |
pickford michigan | 4 |
scott pickford | 4 |
allied pickford | 3 |
lucas pickford | 3 |
academy award first mary pickford win woman | 2 |
mary photo pickford | 2 |
andy pickford | 2 |
pickford theater | 2 |
jack pickford | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-k-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: fiord, frock, prick. | |
-4 letters: coif, coir, cord, corf, cork, crop, dick, dirk, dock, dork, dorp, drip, drop, fico, fido, foci, ford, fork, odic, pick, pock, pork, prod, prof, rick, rock. | |
-5 letters: cod, cop, cor, dip, doc, dor, fid, fir, fop, for, fro, ick, irk, kid, kif, kip, kir, koi, kop, kor, orc, pic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-k-o-p-r" | |
+3 letters: pitchforked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 69 63 6B 66 6F 72 64 |
| 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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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Pickford" |