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Cockfight

Definition: Cockfight

Cockfight

Noun

1. A match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Cockfight

English words defined with "cockfight": cockfighting, Cockmatch. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Cockfight

"Cockfight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cockfight" is used about 11 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%11106,044

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cockfight

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

cockfight

57

cockfight picture

3

cockfight photo

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

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Modern Translation: Cockfight

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

Albanian

  

luftim gjelash. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kohoutí zápas. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hanengevecht. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kokbatalo. (various references)

   

German

  

Hahnenkampf. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

闘鶏 (fighting cock). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とうけい (doctor, east longitude, fighting cock, statistics). (various references)

   

Manx

  

troddan kellee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockfightcay

   

Portuguese

  

brigadegalo, briga de galos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

петушиный бой (cock-fight, cock-fighting). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

borba petlova. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pelea de gallos. (various references)

   

Thai

  

การชนไก่. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

бій півнів (cockfighting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cockfight

Derivations

Words beginning with "cockfight": cockfighting, cockfightings, cockfights. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cockfight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-f-g-h-i-k-o-t"

-3 letters: gothic.

-4 letters: chick, chico, chock, fight, fitch, hoick, thick.

-5 letters: chic, chit, cock, coft, coif, fico, foci, gift, hick, hock, itch, kith, otic, thio, tick.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-f-g-h-i-k-o-t"
 

+1 letter: cockfights.

 

+3 letters: cockfighting.

 

+4 letters: cockfightings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cockfight


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

43 6F 63 6B 66 69 67 68 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 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#102 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0063 006B 0066 0069 0067 0068 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

378169777275737486

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INDEX

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


  

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