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CLEEK

Date "CLEEK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Specialty Definition: CLEEK

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. Scot. To load cages at the shaft bottom or at midworkings.b. Scot. See:haulage clip. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: CLEEK

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cleek Marks and Trademarks on Antique Golf Clubs (reference)

  • Early Western Augusta Pioneers : Including the Families of Cleek, Gwin, Lightner, and Warwick and Related Families of Bratton, Campbell, Carlile, Craig, Crawford, Dyer, Gay, Givens, Graham, Harper, Henderson, Hull, Keister, Lockridge, McFarland, and Moore (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: CLEEK

Illustrations:
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Name Usage Frequency: CLEEK

The following table summarizes the usage of "CLEEK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CleekLast name1,00011,097
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLEEK

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cleek

5

christine cleek

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLEEK

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

クラフト紙 (clan, cleaner, cleaning, club, club face, club head, club sandwich, clubhouse, crab, craft paper, cranberry, crank, cream, cream sauce, cream sundae, cream-filled roll, Creap, creek, creeping inflation, diseased persons, dry cleaning, finish shooting, icecream soda, Kleene, laundry service, startfilming). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

クリーク (creek). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kione yiarn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eekclay

   

Romanian

  

cârlig mare, baston de golf. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CLEEK

Derivations

Words beginning with "CLEEK": cleeked, cleeking, cleeks. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "CLEEK"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CLEEK" (pronounced klē"k)
4k l ē" kclique.
3-l ē" kbleak, leak, leek, oblique, sleek.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CLEEK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-k-l"

-1 letter: keel, leek, leke.

-2 letters: cee, cel, eel, eke, elk, lee, lek.

-3 letters: el.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-k-l"
 

+1 letter: cleeks, deckel, deckle, heckle, keckle.

 

+2 letters: befleck, cleeked, clerked, deckels, deckles, flecked, freckle, heckled, heckler, heckles, icelike, keckled, keckles, speckle.

 

+3 letters: beflecks, cavelike, cheekful, cheekily, cleeking, cockerel, epiclike, feckless, freckled, freckles, hecklers, lacelike, lackered, lackeyed, leukemic, mackerel, necklace, neckless, necklike, neckline, nickeled, penuckle, pickerel, reckless, relocked, retackle, speckled, speckles.

 

+4 letters: bechalked, becloaked, beflecked, blackened, blackener, bucklered, checkable, checkless, cheekfuls, clerklier, clinkered, cockerels, flickered, frecklier, leaseback, leechlike, leukemics, leukocyte, mackerels, necklaces, necklines, nickelled, penuckles, pickerels, retackled, retackles, scalelike, screwlike, slackened.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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