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Date "RUDGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rudge (Barnaby). A half-witted lad, who had for his companion a raven. (Dicken's: Barnby Rudge.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: RUDGE |
| English words defined with "RUDGE": Dolly Varden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RUDGE": Barnaby Rudge ♦ Gordon Riots ♦ Miggs. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Barnaby Rudge (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Barnaby Rudge / F.O.C. Darley, fecit. ; R. Hinshelwood, sc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "RUDGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "RUDGE" is used about 24 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) | 91.67% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "RUDGE" 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 |
| Rudge | Last name | 200 | 32,945 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "RUDGE": Rudge-whitworth. | |
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| 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 |
rudge | 12 |
report rudge | 5 |
rudge whitworth | 4 |
barnaby rudge | 4 |
joe rudge | 3 |
bicycle rudge | 3 |
rudge motorcycle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RUDGE": begrudge, drudge, grudge, trudge. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RUDGE": begrudged, begrudges, drudged, drudger, drudgeries, drudgers, drudgery, drudges, grudged, grudger, grudgers, grudges, trudged, trudgen, trudgens, trudgeon, trudgeons, trudger, trudgers, trudges. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: urged. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-r-u" | |
-1 letter: dreg, drug, dure, grue, gude, rude, rued, urge. | |
-2 letters: due, dug, erg, ged, red, reg, rue, rug, urd. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-r-u" | |
+1 letter: argued, bedrug, budger, drogue, drudge, gerund, gourde, grudge, guider, gurged, judger, nudger, purged, redbug, rogued, rouged, rugged, surged, trudge. | |
+2 letters: augured, bedrugs, bludger, budgers, burgled, desugar, drogues, drudged, drudger, drudges, drugged, drugget, druggie, dungier, figured, frugged, gaudery, gaudier, gerunds, gourdes, grouped, groused, grouted, grubbed, grudged, grudger, grudges, grueled, gruffed, grumped, grunted, guarded, guarder, guerdon, guiders, guilder, gurgled, judgers, nudgers, pudgier, redbugs, refuged, reglued, rejudge, roughed, sugared, trudged, trudgen, trudger, trudges, undergo, unurged, upgrade. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 55 44 47 45 |
| 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)01010010 01010101 01000100 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R U D G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0055 0044 0047 0045 |
| 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)5255384139 |
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