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Definition: Clubfoot |
ClubfootNoun1. Congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clubfoot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A deformed foot in which the foot is plantarflexed, inverted and adducted. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ClubfootSynonym: talipes (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Clubfoot |
| English words defined with "clubfoot": Polt-footed. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Foot deformities such as clubfoot, flexion (involuntary bending) of the toes, hammer toes, or foot inversion (turning inward) may be early signs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Clubfoot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clubfoot" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
clubfoot | 68 |
clubfoot picture | 3 |
clubfoot necrosis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clubfoot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | këmbë e shtrembër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قدم مشوهة حنفاء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیچیدگی (Compiexity, Crank, Elaboration, Intricacy, Plexus), پاچنبری (Bandylegged), کجی (Crook, Curvature, Hade, List, Obliquity, Skew, Slant, Slope, Tilt), کج پا (Bandylegged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Klumpfuß (club foot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | talismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 内反足 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ないは"そく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubfootclay picior strâmb. (various references) косолапость (splayfoot, talipes). (various references) sp g (a claw or paw, limb of an, paw). (various references) pata de palo (pegleg). (various references) ลักษ"ะที่ผิ"รูปของเท้า. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clubfoot": clubfooted. (additional references) | |
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"Clubfoot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clawfoot, clubgoer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-f-l-o-o-t-u" | |
-3 letters: cloot, clout, flout. | |
-4 letters: bloc, blot, bolo, bolt, boot, bout, clot, club, coft, colt, coof, cool, coot, cult, floc, flub, fool, foot, foul, lobo, loco, loft, loof, loot, lout, obol, tofu, tolu, tool. | |
-5 letters: boo, bot, but, cob, col, coo, cot, cub, cut, flu, fob, fou, fub, lob, loo, lot, oft, oot, out. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-f-l-o-o-t-u" | |
+2 letters: clubfooted. | |
+4 letters: confabulator. | |
+5 letters: confabulation, confabulators, confabulatory, uncomfortable, uncomfortably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 75 62 66 6F 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. ..- -... ..-. --- --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01110101 01100010 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l u b f o o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0075 0062 0066 006F 006F 0074 |
| 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)3778876872818186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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