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Definitions: Pocked |
PockedAdjective1. Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits. 2. Marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pocked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
Synonyms: PockedSynonyms: pockmarked (adj), potholed (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: pock (medicine), pocking (chemical industry, industry). |
| "Pocked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 41.67% of the time. "Pocked" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pocked": pocked-book. | |
Ending with "pocked": bullet-pocked, bunker-pocked, shell-pocked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pocked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | himlőhelyes (pitted, pockmarked, pock-marked). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | lane spuitt, breck (brindle, brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, dotty, mackerel, mottled, piebald, pied, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, spotty, tartan, trout, variegated). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockedpay изъязвленный (ulcered, ulcerous). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Pocked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pckeg, pocke, pockedy, pocker, Pockley, ponked, popkid, procced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pocked" (pronounced pÄ"kt) |
| 3 | -Ä" k t | blocked, clocked, cocked, concoct, docked, flocked, knocked, locked, mocked, overstocked, restocked, rocked, shocked, socked, stocked, unlocked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-o-p" | |
-1 letter: coked, coped, poked. | |
-2 letters: code, coed, coke, cope, deck, deco, dock, dope, oped, peck, pock, poke. | |
-3 letters: cep, cod, cop, doc, doe, kep, kop, ode, oke, ope, pec, ped, pod. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-k-o-p" | |
+2 letters: copydesk, pocketed. | |
+3 letters: copydesks, paddocked, padlocked, peacocked, precooked. | |
+4 letters: dropkicker, kinescoped, peckerwood, pockmarked, politicked, stockpiled, woodpecker. | |
+5 letters: backdropped, backstopped, blacktopped, dropkickers, peckerwoods, pitchforked, spatterdock, woodpeckers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 63 6B 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -.-. -.- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o c k e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0063 006B 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508169777170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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