Collarbone

Definition: Collarbone

Collarbone

Noun

1. Bone linking the scapula and sternum.

Synonym: Collarbone

Synonym: clavicle (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Collarbone

English words defined with "collarbone": pharynx ♦ throat. (references)

Specialty definitions using "collarbone": dustman's shoulder, Dying Sayings ♦ stage IV nasopharynx cancer. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It would have been, but her husband slipped on the afterbirth and broke his collarbone. (The Tall Guy; writing credit: Richard Curtis)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Collarbone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Collarbone" is used about 41 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)	95.12%	39	55,036
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.88%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	41	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "collarbone": collarbone-breaking.
	Ending with "collarbone": below-the-collarbone.
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.

Language		Translations for "collarbone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		klavikul (clavicle), heqës (ejector, extractor, remover). (various references)

Arabic		‏ترقوة, ‏الترقوة (clavicle). (various references)

Bulgarian		ключица (clavicle). (various references)

Czech		klíèní kost (clavicle). (various references)

Farsi		چنبر (Clavicle, Tore). (various references)

French		clavicule (collar bone). (various references)

German		schlüsselbein (clavicle). (various references)

Greek		κλείδα (clavicle). (various references)

Hungarian		kulcscsont (clavicle). (various references)

Indonesian		tulang selangkang. (various references)

Italian		clavicola (clavicle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鎖骨 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"つ. (various references)

Pig Latin		ollarbonecay

Portuguese		clavícula (clavicle). (various references)

Russian		ключица (clavicle, collar bone, collar-bone). (various references)

Sepedi		kgetlane. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fišbajn (busk, collar bone). (various references)

Spanish		clavícula (clavicle, collar bone). (various references)

Swedish		nyckelben (clavicle). (various references)

Thai		กระ�"ูกไหปลาร้า. (various references)

Turkish		köprücükkemiği. (various references)

Ukrainian		ключиця (clavicle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	jugulum. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	clavicule. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "collarbone": collarbones. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "collarbone" (pronounced kÄ"lerbō'n)
3	-b ō' n	anklebone, backbone, cheekbone, jawbone, shinbone, wishbone.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-n-o-o-r"
	-1 letter: colorable.
	-2 letters: cornball.
	-3 letters: balloon, borneol, colonel, corneal, corolla, coronae, coronal, coronel, ocellar.
	-4 letters: baller, ballon, beacon, bolero, borane, boreal, bronco, caller, carbon, cellar, clonal, cloner, coaler, collar, colone, cooler, corban, corbel, cornea, cornel, corona, enroll, lancer, loaner, locale, loreal, nobler, oracle, racoon, recall, recoal, reloan, robalo.
	-5 letters: abler, aboon, acerb, acorn, alone, anole, bacon.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-n-o-o-r"
	+1 letter: collarbones.
	+2 letters: controllable.
	+4 letters: incontrollable, uncontrollable.
	+5 letters: neurobiological, noncontrollable.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
broken collarbone	17
collarbone	13
collarbone pain	4
broken collarbone surgery	3
collarbone fracture	3
collarbone tender	3
fractured collarbone	2
collarbone injury	2
broken collarbone infant	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Collarbone

Definition: Collarbone

Collarbone

Noun

Synonym: Collarbone

Crosswords: Collarbone

Modern Usage: Collarbone

Screenplays

Usage Frequency: Collarbone

Expression: Collarbone

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Collarbone

Modern Translation: Collarbone

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Ancestral Language Translations: Collarbone

Derivations: Collarbone

Derivations

Rhyming with "Collarbone"

Anagrams: Collarbone

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