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"CURDS" is a plural of: curd. |
Date "CURDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Product obtained from curdled milk from which most of the serum has been extracted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CURDS |
| English words defined with "CURDS": Cheese cake, clabber, clot, cottage cheese, curd, curdle ♦ farm cheese, farmer's cheese, Fleetings, friable ♦ pot cheese. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CURDS": Fleetings. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Smart shoppers learn to read food labels with care, looking not only for milk and lactose among the contents but also for such words as whey, curds, milk by-products, dry milk solids, and nonfat dry milk powder. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CURDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CURDS" is used about 58 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 (plural) | 100% | 58 | 44,427 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CURDS": albanian fried food of cheese or curds. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cheese curds | 56 |
curds | 12 |
curds and whey | 9 |
wisconsin cheese curds | 8 |
cheese curds deep fried | 7 |
cheese curds fried | 4 |
cheese curds recipe | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CURDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fërgesë (albanian fried food of cheese or curds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tvaroh (cottage cheese, curd). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | surmaelkskvark (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), ostemasse (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), maelkekoagel (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), kvark (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), kvarg (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), hvid ost (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wrongel (cottage cheese, curd, curdled milk, whey cheese, white cheese), platte kaas (cottage cheese, cream cheese, curd, fresh cheese, lactic cheese, soft cheese, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kazeo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | heran lasku (dripping of curdled milk, dripping of curds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caillebotte (curd), fromage blanc (curd). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Weisskaese (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), Topfen (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), Quark (curd, quark, rubbish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πηγμένο γάλα για τυρί (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'בי " לב ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megalszik (Curdle, to curd, to fix, to turn sour, to turn to curds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cacio fresco (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), ricotta (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), latticino (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), giuncata (junket), formaggio bianco (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | groo as meaig (curds and whey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urdscay requeijão,"queijo branco". (various references) творог (cheese, cottage cheese, curd, dutch cheese, pot cheese). (various references) gruth. (various references) requesón (cottage cheese, curd). (various references) tappning av vassle (dripping of curdled milk, dripping of curds). (various references) сир (cheese). (various references) cawsion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CURDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuerdos, cardus, Cedrus, cordis, courd, crudes, crudus, cudz, cueds, curas, curdy, curns, currs, curtz, Czurda, kurdlsh, kurds, Mcgurks, nurds, turds, urds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cruds. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: crud, crus, cuds, curd, curs, scud, surd, urds. | |
-2 letters: cud, cur, urd. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: crudes, cursed, durocs. | |
+2 letters: coursed, crudest, cruised, crusade, crusado, crushed, crusted, curdles, custard, duckers, dysuric, recused, reduces, rescued, sciurid, scoured, secured, seducer, sourced, spruced. | |
+3 letters: accursed, adducers, becursed, burdocks, candours, caroused, censured, chorused, chuddars, chudders, closured, crudites, crunodes, crusaded, crusader, crusades, crusados, cruzados, cudbears, cuddlers, curbside, curdiest, curdlers, curseder, cursedly, curtsied, cuspidor, cussword, custards, custardy, decorous, decorums, decuries, decurves, destruct, douceurs, durances, eductors, inducers, mudrocks, obscured, produces, products, quadrics, reducers, ruddocks, sciurids, sciuroid, scourged, scrouged, scrubbed, scrummed, scrupled, scurried, seducers, subacrid, succored, suckered, surfaced, traduces, uncursed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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