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Definition: Flanker |
FlankerNoun1. A back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver. 2. A soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flanker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonym: FlankerSynonym: flankerback (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flanker |
| English words defined with "flanker": Flankered, Flankering. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flanker" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (flanker). |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Flanker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.14% of the time. "Flanker" is used about 210 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) | 97.14% | 204 | 21,327 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 210 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flanker": lock-turned-flanker. | |
| 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 |
flanker 2.5 | 32 |
su 27 flanker | 23 |
flanker 2.0 | 12 |
flanker | 10 |
37 flanker su super | 9 |
2.5 flanker patch | 6 |
flanker 2 | 5 |
2.51 flanker | 4 |
1.5 27 flanker su version | 4 |
su27 flanker | 3 |
1.5 flanker | 3 |
27 download flanker su | 3 |
37 flanker su | 2 |
1.5 27 flanker su | 2 |
2.0 demo flanker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flanker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fortifikim që mbron krahun, krah shtëpie. (various references) | |
Czech | opevnìní (defences, fortification). (various references) | |
Greek | υπερφαλαγγίζων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | oldalbástya, oldalvéd (flank guard), oldalrész (lateral), oldalozó támadás, oldalozás (traverse), oldalba támadás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengapit (clamp, paperclip). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankerflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flanqueador. (various references) | |
Russian | обход (bypass, encircling manoeuvre, go round, go-round, pass-by, perambulation, round, visiting round, workarounds). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flanker. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | công sự bảo vệ sườn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flanker": flankers. (additional references) | |
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"Flanker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Falaniko, flance, flaneur, flanger, flanke, Flanner, Flehner, flencer, flexneri, flinker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: flaker, lanker, rankle. | |
-2 letters: ankle, faker, farle, feral, flake, flank, flare, frank, freak, frena, kenaf, laker, learn, renal. | |
-3 letters: alef, earl, earn, elan, fake, fane, fare, farl, feal, fear, fern, flak, flan, flea, frae, kale, kane, karn, kerf, kern, knar, lake, lane, lank, lark, leaf, leak, lean, lear, nark, near, rake, rale, rank. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: flankers. | |
+2 letters: frankable, lakefront. | |
+3 letters: cornflakes, lakefronts. | |
+4 letters: franklinite, frankpledge, thankfuller. | |
+5 letters: franklinites, frankpledges. | |
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