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Clubfoot

Definition: Clubfoot

Clubfoot

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Clubfoot

DomainDefinition

Health

A deformed foot in which the foot is plantarflexed, inverted and adducted. (references)

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

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Synonym: Clubfoot

Synonym: talipes (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Clubfoot

English words defined with "clubfoot": Polt-footed. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Clubfoot

DomainTitle

Books

  • Idiopathic Clubfoot and Its Treatment (reference)

  • The Clubfoot (reference)

  • The Clubfoot : the present and a view of the the future (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Clubfoot

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Clubfoot

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clubfoot

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

clubfoot

68

clubfoot picture

3

clubfoot necrosis

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clubfoot

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

   

Romanian

  

picior strâmb. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

косолапость (splayfoot, talipes). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sp g (a claw or paw, limb of an, paw). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pata de palo (pegleg). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ลักษ"ะที่ผิ"รูปของเท้า. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clubfoot

Derivations

Words beginning with "clubfoot": clubfooted. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clubfoot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clawfoot, clubgoer. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Clubfoot

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Clubfoot


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

43 6C 75 62 66 6F 6F 74

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)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01110101 01100010 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#117 &#98 &#102 &#111 &#111 &#116

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3778876872818186

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INDEX

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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