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Courgette

Definition: Courgette

Courgette

Noun

1. Marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small.

2. Small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green.

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


Synonym: Courgette

Synonym: zucchini (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Courgette

Non-English Usage: "Courgette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (courgette, zucchini), French (courgette, zucchini).

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Usage Frequency: Courgette

"Courgette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.04% of the time. "Courgette" is used about 51 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)98.04%5048,117
Noun (proper)1.96%1339,140
                    Total100.00%51N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Courgette

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

courgette

18

courgette recette

7

courgette de recette

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

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Modern Translation: Courgette

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

Czech

  

cukina (zucchini), cuketa (zucchini). (various references)

   

Danish

  

courgette (vegetable marrow), squash (vegetable marrow), mandelgræskar (vegetable marrow). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

courgette (zucchini). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kalabaseto (zucchini). (various references)

   

French

  

courgette. (various references)

   

German

  

zucchini (zucchini), Markkuerbis (gourd, ornamental gourd, pumpkin, vegetable marrow). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολοκυθάκι (squash, zucchini). (various references)

   

Italian

  

zucchina (marrow, zucchini). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スンプ法 (canvas, cloth, screen, sump method, thud, trousers, zoom, zoom in, zoom lens, zooming, zoot suit, zucchini). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ズッキーニ (zucchini). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourgettecay

   

Portuguese

  

curgete (vegetable marrow), cabaça (calabash, gourd), abobrinha (zucchini). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кабачок (boozer, cabaret, marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrows, zucchini). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

calabacín (marrow, zucchini). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dolmalık kabak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Courgette

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cucurbita pepo v.medullosa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Courgette

Derivations

Words beginning with "courgette": courgettes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Courgette

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: cortege, curette.

-3 letters: cotter, couter, cutter, getter, gutter, rotgut, tercet, touter.

-4 letters: court, cruet, curet, cuter, egret, erect, ergot, eruct, erugo, greet, grout, octet, otter, outer, outre, recto, recut, rogue, rotte, rouge, route, terce, togue, torte, toter, trout, truce, tutee, tutor, utter.

-5 letters: cere, cero, cete, core, cote, cure, curt, cute, ecru, eger, ergo.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: courgettes.

 

+3 letters: counteragent.

 

+4 letters: counteragents, counterweight, electrocuting.

 

+5 letters: counterfeiting, counterweights.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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