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Definition: Blackhead |
BlackheadNoun1. A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A destructive disease of turkeys and in a milder form of chickens and other related birds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Imprint left on an article by the lehr belt. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BlackheadSynonym: comedo (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blackhead |
| English words defined with "blackhead": Ringbill, Ring-necked duck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blackhead": blackhead minnow. (references) |
| "Blackhead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blackhead" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "blackhead": blackhead minnow. Additional references. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blackhead | 525 | blackhead mountain | 5 |
get rid of blackhead | 82 | blackhead photo | 4 |
blackhead removal | 76 | blackhead squeezing | 4 |
blackhead remover | 59 | blackhead whiteheads | 4 |
blackhead remove | 46 | blackhead popping | 4 |
removing blackhead | 35 | blackhead removal tool | 4 |
rid of blackhead | 32 | blackhead penis | 3 |
blackhead extractor | 31 | blackhead care skin | 3 |
blackhead treatment | 24 | blackhead clean clear | 3 |
blackhead picture | 21 | blackhead home treatment | 3 |
blackhead nose | 20 | skin blackhead | 3 |
blackhead home remedy | 18 | cause of blackhead | 3 |
blackhead acne | 13 | blackhead remover tool | 3 |
blackhead removers | 9 | blackhead strip | 3 |
pimples blackhead | 8 | blackhead lodge mountain | 3 |
blackhead remedy | 8 | blackhead natural remedy | 3 |
blackhead extraction | 8 | blackhead ireland sea | 3 |
blackhead ireland | 8 | blackhead vacuum | 3 |
blackhead ear in | 7 | blackhead leg | 3 |
blackhead cure | 6 | blackhead picture whiteheads | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blackhead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çdo zog me kokë të zezë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرض يصيب الديكة الرومية, أسود الرأس, بثره في الوجه سوداء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ергенска пъпка (comedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uher (acne, pimple, whelk), pupínek (pimple, spot, whelk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blackhead (blackhead of turkeys, contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), typhlohepatitis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), smitsom blindtarm-leverbetaendelse (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blackhead (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), infectieuze enterohepatitis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), histomoniasis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), histomoniase (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چربی دانه , جوش کوچک درصورت , جوش سرسیاه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mustapäätauti (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), histomoniosis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), histomoniasis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | typhlo-hépatite parasitaire, tête noire, maladie de la tête noire, maladie de la crise rouge, histomonose, crise rouge, ???. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mitesser (blackheads, comedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαύρη ελιά του δέρματοσ, τυφλοηπατίτις (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mitesszer (pimple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bintil hitam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tifloepatite (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), comedone (comedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pluccan doo, guirrin doo, foillan kione doo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackheadblay cravo (button, carnation, fingerprint, gilt, harpsichord, harpy, hoop rivet, nail, pink, rivet, Spike, sweet-William, traffic stud). (various references) coş (acne, basket, basketful, cage, chest, chimney, creel, flue, grog-blossom, hamper, hopper, pannier, rising, smoke stack, spot, tidy, tilt). (various references) угорь (acne, comedo, eel, grig, pimple). (various references) miteser (comedo). (various references) espinilla (pimple, shank, shin, shinbone). (various references) blackhead (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), typhlohepatit (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis), pormask, histomoniasis (contagious enterohepatitis, contagious typhlo-hepatitis, histomoniasis). (various references) รอยหรือสิวหัว"ำเล็กๆ บนผิว. (various references) siyah nokta. (various references) dьwьrtik (pimple). (various references) вугор (acne, eel, push). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | entero-hepatitis, Histomonas meleagridis, histomoniasis, nosogenum, typhlo-hepatitis-enterohepatitis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blackhead": blackheads. (additional references) | |
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"Blackhead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacchiad, backhead. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-h-k-l" | |
-2 letters: bechalk, blacked, chalked, hackled. | |
-3 letters: alcade, bached, backed, balked, bleach, cabled, calked, hacked, hackle, keblah, lacked. | |
-4 letters: aahed, aback, ached, ahead, akela, alack, baaed, baked, baled, beach, belch, black, blade, bleak, cabal, cable, caked, chalk, chela, clade, dacha, decal, hacek, hadal, haled, kheda, laced, laked, leach. | |
-5 letters: abed, able, aced, ache, alae, alba, alec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-h-k-l" | |
+1 letter: backhauled, backlashed, blackheads. | |
+2 letters: blackhander. | |
+3 letters: backhandedly, blackhanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 63 6B 68 65 61 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -.-. -.- .... . .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a c k h e a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0068 0065 0061 0064 |
| 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)367867697774716770 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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