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WHISKED

Definition: WHISKED

WHISKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Whisk

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHISKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)


Crosswords: WHISKED

English words defined with "WHISKED": whisk. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WHISKED": Barataria. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WHISKED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Whisked Away : Poems for More than One Voice (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: WHISKED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

A Lincoln Zephyr, silvery and low, whisked by.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: WHISKED

"WHISKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.92% of the time. "WHISKED" is used about 163 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)50.92%8336,350
Lexical Verb (past tense)42.94%7039,981
Adjective (general or positive)5.52%9117,287
Noun (proper)0.61%1339,140
                    Total100.00%163N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WHISKED

Language Translations for "WHISKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Whisk, Whisking). (various references)

   

German

  

wischte, gewischt (mopped, wiped). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

터는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

blinkit (whipped). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iskedwhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: WHISKED

Misspellings

"WHISKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Weiske, whisted, wieked, wisked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WHISKED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "WHISKED" (pronounced wi"skt or hwi"skt)
4-i" s k tfrisked, risked.
3-s k tasked, basked, masked, tasked, telexed, unmasked.
4-i" s k tfrisked, risked.
3-s k tasked, basked, masked, tasked, telexed, unmasked.

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Anagrams: WHISKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-k-s-w"

-1 letter: wished.

-2 letters: dikes, hides, hiked, hikes, sheik, shied, skied, whids, whisk, wides, wised.

-3 letters: desk, dews, dies, dike, dish, disk, edhs, hews, hide, hied, hies, hike, ides, khis, kids, shed, shew, side, sike, skew, skid, weds, whid, wide, wise, wish.

-4 letters: dew, die, dis, edh, eds, hes, hew, hid, hie, his, ids, khi, kid.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-k-s-w"
 

+2 letters: whiskered.

 

+3 letters: chickweeds, shadowlike.

 

+4 letters: bewhiskered, hoodwinkers, shipwrecked.

 

+5 letters: switchbacked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WHISKED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 48 49 53 4B 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    ....    ..    ...    -.-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "WHISKED"


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