Earache

Definition: Earache

Earache

Noun

1. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.

Date "earache" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Earache

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	A pain in the ear. Treated with Allium, Citrus, Clematis, Cleome, Cocos, Colocasia, Emilia, Hibiscus, Mirabilis, Moringa, Murraya, Ocimum, Parmentiera, Physalis, Plumbago. (references)
Health	Pain in the ear. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Earache

Synonym: otalgia (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Earache

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Physical Pain	Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Earache

Specialty definitions using "earache": CLEOME SPINOSA, COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Earache

Domain	Title
Books	Earache (Leaning About Your Health) (reference) Earache in Children : A Guide for Parents (reference) Ellie the Elephant: Has an Earache (reference) Koko Bears Big Earache (Lansky, Vicki. Practical Parenting Read-Together Book.) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Earache

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Non-Fiction Usage: Earache

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Earache, sore throat and rash are very uncommon. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Earache

"Earache" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Earache" is used about 23 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)	100%	23	72,767

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Earache

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
earache	229
earache record	132
earache home remedy	33
earache remedy	28
earache cure	14
earache treatment	12
earache my eye	11
earache relief	6
earache adult	4
earache symptom	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Earache

Language		Translations for "earache"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhimbje veshi. (various references)

Bulgarian		ушебол. (various references)

Czech		bolest v uších, bolest ucha. (various references)

Farsi		گوش درد, دردگوش . (various references)

German		Ohrschmerzen, ohrenschmerzen (earaches). (various references)

Greek		πόνοσ αυτιού, ωταλγία. (various references)

Hungarian		fülfájás. (various references)

Italian		mal d'orecchie (ear ache, otalgia), mal d'orecchi. (various references)

Manx		chingys cleayshey. (various references)

Norwegian		øreverk. (various references)

Pig Latin		earacheay.(various references)

Portuguese		lóbulo da orelha, dor de ouvido (eardrum). (various references)

Russian		боль в ухе (ear-ache). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bol u uvetu. (various references)

Spanish		dolor de oídos. (various references)

Swedish		ont i öronen, örsprång (ear-ache), öronvärk. (various references)

Thai		บ่นไม่หยุ�", อาการปว�"หู (otalgia). (various references)

Turkish		kulak ağrısı (otalgia). (various references)

Ukranian		вушний біль. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Earache

Derivations
	Words beginning with "earache": earaches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Earache" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aermacchi, Ariachne, Dafriche, Darrach, Delaroche, eadache, Earac, earnach, earragh, Earwaker, Etruschi, Gearach, gebracht, Iwrachia, Merafhe, Searancke. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Earache

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-r"
	-2 letters: areae, areca, chare, cheer, reach.
	-3 letters: ache, acre, arch, area, care, cere, char, each, eche, haar, hare, hear, here, race, rhea.
	-4 letters: aah, ace, aha, arc, are, car, cee, ear, era, ere, hae, her, rah, rec, ree.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, ah, ar, eh, er, ha, he, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-r"
	+1 letter: earaches, headrace, tracheae.
	+2 letters: beachwear, cathedrae, decahedra, exarchate, headraces, heartache, reachable, scarehead, tracheate.
	+3 letters: aerenchyma, anthracene, aphaeretic, archentera, carragheen, chargeable, exarchates, gearchange, headachier, heartaches, menarcheal, reattached, reattaches, scareheads, searchable, tracheated.
	+4 letters: aerenchymas, antechamber, anthracenes, carragheens, catachreses, chaperonage, charactered, clearheaded, dodecahedra, gearchanges, leatherback, preheadache, spermatheca, unreachable, weathercast.
	+5 letters: aerenchymata, antechambers, apothecaries, archegoniate, atheoretical, cataphoreses, chaperonages, characteries, characterize, dodecahedral, endotracheal, extrahepatic, jackhammered, leatherbacks, merchantable, metathoraces, methacrylate, reattachment, rechargeable, reproachable, researchable, spermathecae, unbreachable, unsearchable, weathercasts.
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