TROCHLEA

Definition: TROCHLEA

TROCHLEA

Noun

1. A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.

2. A pulley.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Trochlea \Troch"le*a\, noun. [Latin expression, case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Trochilics.]. (Websters 1913)

"TROCHLEA" is a common misspelling or typo for: trachea, troche, trochee.

Crosswords: TROCHLEA

English words defined with "TROCHLEA": Infratrochlear ♦ Supratrochlear ♦ Trochleary. (references)

Etymologies containing "TROCHLEA": Epitrochlea ♦ trochlear. (references)

Non-English Usage: "TROCHLEA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley, truckle).

"TROCHLEA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TROCHLEA" is used about 2 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 (singular)	100%	2	245,945

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 "TROCHLEA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		τροχίλια. (various references)

Manx		ullag (monkey-block, pulley). (various references)

Pig Latin		ochleatray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TROCHLEA": trochleae, trochlear, trochlears, trochleas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: chelator, chlorate.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: cholate, cholera, chorale, choreal, chortle, loather, locater, rathole, trachle, trochal.
	-2 letters: cartel, chalet, chalot, choler, choral, chorea, claret, clothe, coaler, coater, colter, halter, harlot, hector, lather, lector, loathe, locate, ochrea, orache, oracle, rachet, recoal, rectal, rochet, rotche, thaler, thecal, tocher, troche.
	-3 letters: actor, alert, alter, altho, artel, caret, carle, carol, carte, cater, ceorl.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: charlotte, chelators, chlorates, tracheole, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas.
	+2 letters: charlottes, chlorinate, grapholect, heptachlor, octahedral, orchestral, orthoclase, rhetorical, tracheolar, tracheoles, trochlears.
	+3 letters: chlorinated, chlorinates, chocolatier, coldhearted, grapholects, heptachlors, hypocentral, lycanthrope, orthoclases, perchlorate, prophetical, spirochetal, theoretical.
	+4 letters: archeologist, atheoretical, bachelorette, cephalometry, chalcopyrite, chocolatiers, dechlorinate, endotracheal, galactorrhea, heterocercal, lycanthropes, metaphorical, octahedrally, orchestrally, perchlorates, photonuclear, procathedral, pyrocatechol, rhetorically, schoolmaster, theocratical, trochanteral, unrhetorical.
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TROCHLEA

Definition: TROCHLEA

TROCHLEA

Noun

Crosswords: TROCHLEA

Usage Frequency: TROCHLEA

Frequency of Internet Keywords: TROCHLEA

trochlea

Modern Translation: TROCHLEA

Greek

Manx

Pig Latin

Derivations: TROCHLEA

Derivations

Anagrams: TROCHLEA

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
trochlea	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.