Gigot

Definition: Gigot

Gigot

Noun

1. Lamb leg suitable for roasting.

Date "gigot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Synonym: Gigot

Synonym: leg of lamb (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: leg-of-mutton (food & agriculture).

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Crosswords: Gigot

English words defined with "gigot": Gigget, Giggot. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Gigot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (leg).

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Modern Usage: Gigot

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Gigot (1962)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gigot

"Gigot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Gigot" is used about 12 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)	91.67%	11	106,044
Noun (common)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gigot

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
gigot	17
gigot le	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gigot

Language		Translations for "gigot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		lammekølle (leg of mutton). (various references)

Dutch		schapebout,lamsbout (leg of mutton). (various references)

French		gigot. (various references)

German		Keule (bat, blackjack, bludgeon, club, cudgel, haunch, Indian club, joint, leg, leg of mutton, lobe, Mace, thigh). (various references)

Greek		μπούτι (ham, leg of mutton, rump, thigh, unboned), μηρός (femur, leg, leg of mutton, thigh). (various references)

Italian		cosciotto (leg, leg of mutton), "gigot". (various references)

Manx		kerroo eayn. (various references)

Pig Latin		igotgay

Portuguese		perna de borrego (leg of mutton). (various references)

Spanish		pierna de cordero (leg of mutton). (various references)

Swedish		fårstek (leg of mutton, roast mutton). (various references)

Turkish		but (buttock, croup, croupe, drumstick, haunch, hindquarter, huckle, leg, rump, thigh). (various references)

Vietnamese		đùi cừu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gigot

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gigot": gigots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gigot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: figot, gabot, gagol, gangtok, Gatot, geot, Ggat, ggt, Gidom, gidot, giget, gigi, Gigio, gigo, Gigon, Gigou, Gilgit, Gilot, Gimoti, Ginott, gio, giot, givot, gogo, Gogoi, Grigor, guigo, guiguet, Guinot, Higgott, iggor, iggt, iogt, ligot, pigot, Rigot, tigot, vigot. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gigot"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gigot" (pronounced ji"gut)
4	-i" g u t	bigot, frigate, spigot.
3	-g u t	agate, aggregate, argot, ergot, faggot, ingot, legate, maggot, nugget, surrogate, target.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gigot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-g-i-o-t"
	-2 letters: gig, git, got, tog.
	-3 letters: go, it, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "g-g-i-o-t"
	+1 letter: giglot, gigots.
	+2 letters: gigaton, giglots, togging, tonging.
	+3 letters: agiotage, boggiest, dogfight, doggiest, fagoting, foggiest, garoting, ghosting, gigatons, gloating, glouting, grouting, hogtying, ingoting, loggiest, oughting, outgoing, soggiest, stodging, stooging, tangoing, toggling, tonguing, toughing.
	+4 letters: agiotages, cloggiest, dogfights, faggoting, fagotings, froggiest, garotting, garroting, gavotting, geologist, ghettoing, ghostings, goggliest, goitrogen, groggiest, hogtieing, montaging, nightglow, nightgown, nightlong, outgiving, outgoings, outraging, outrigger, portaging, ragouting, smoggiest, thronging, toggeries, tonguings.
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