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Definitions: PLED |
PLED1. Of Plead 2. Imp. & p. p. of Plead |
Date "PLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Crosswords: PLED |
| Specialty definitions using "PLED": Nabal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PLED" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (plaid), Romanian (plaid, rug). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | The printer pled guilty in May and was fined slightly over $1,000 (4,000 RM). The editor's case still is pending. (references) |
Australia | In April a detention center guard pled guilty to abusing a detainee. (references) | |
Human Rights | Comoros | In June Cheik Ali pled guilty to illegal possession of guns. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 62.07% of the time. "PLED" is used about 29 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 62.07% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.93% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
pled | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пледирам (defend, plead, solicit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | sprechen für (befürwortend) (pled for US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | perbeszédet tart (to plead), perbeszédet mond (to plead), mentségül felhoz (to plead), ürügyként felhoz (to plead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edplay просить (ask, asked, beg, beseech, crave, plead, pleaded, pray, supplicate). (various references) pret y pp de plead. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PLED": pledge, pledged, pledgee, pledgees, pledgeor, pledgeors, pledger, pledgers, pledges, pledget, pledgets, pledging, pledgor, pledgors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PLED": bedimpled, bepimpled, centupled, coupled, crimpled, crippled, crumpled, dappled, decoupled, decupled, dimpled, discipled, dispeopled, empurpled, exampled, grappled, hirpled, hoppled, interpled, mispled, nippled, octupled, overpeopled, peopled, pimpled, poppled, principled, purpled, quadrupled, quintupled, recoupled, repeopled, repled, resampled, rimpled, rippled, rumpled, sampled, scrupled, septupled, sextupled, stapled, steepled, stippled, stoppled, subsampled, suppled, templed, tippled, toppled, trampled. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PLED": frankpledge, frankpledges, impledge, impledged, impledges, impledging, repledge, repledged, repledges, repledging, unprincipledness, unprinciplednesses. (additional references) | |
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"PLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ped, pedz, pelv, phle, plad, playd, pld, Plde, ple, pleb, pledg, pledt, Plee, pleed, pleet, pleg, plei, plem, plen, pleo, plep, pler, ples, plet, pleu, plev, plew, plex, Plez, plind, plud, plyed, Pmle, poed, pred, pyed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PLED" (pronounced ple"d) |
| 3 | -l e" d | bled, fled, lead, led, misled, sled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-p" | |
-1 letter: del, eld, led, ped. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, el, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-p" | |
+1 letter: duple, loped, padle, paled, pedal, piled, plead, plied, poled, puled. | |
+2 letters: aliped, cleped, dapple, deeply, deploy, dewlap, dimple, diplex, diploe, dipole, dispel, duplex, elapid, eloped, gulped, helped, kelped, lamped, lapped, lapsed, leaped, limped, lipide, lipped, lisped, looped, lopped, louped, lumped, paddle, padles, palled, palmed, parled, pealed, pedalo, pedals, peddle, pedlar, pedler, peeled, pelted, piddle, pilled, placed, planed, plated, played, pleads, pledge, pleiad, plowed, ployed, plumed, polder, polled, poodle, pooled, puddle, pulled, pulped, pulsed, purled, repled, sliped, sloped, spiled, upheld, yelped. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4C 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P L E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004C 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50463938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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