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Definition: Pocketful |
PocketfulNoun1. The quantity a pocket will hold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pocketful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: Pocketful |
| English words defined with "pocketful": change ♦ Pocketfuls. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pocketful of Miracles (1961) A Pocketful of Rye (1985) | |
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| "Pocketful" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pocketful" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
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 |
pocketful of miracle | 8 |
pocketful posies | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pocketful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | një xhep. (various references) | |
Arabic | جيب مليان ب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пълен джоб с нещо. (various references) | |
Czech | plná kapsa. (various references) | |
French | poche pleine. (various references) | |
German | Taschevoll. (various references) | |
Greek | τσέπη γεμάτη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egy zsebnyi. (various references) | |
Manx | lane poggaid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocketfulpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grande quantidade (a lot of, considerable, galore, infinity, lots, million, mort, much, oodles, peck, profusion, raft, regiment, sea, shoal, sight, stack, thickness, ton, tonne, torrent, wilderness), bolso cheio. (various references) | |
Russian | полный карман. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pun džep. (various references) | |
Spanish | bolsillo (bag, case, kit, pocket, purse). (various references) | |
Swedish | en ficka full med. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | повна кишеня. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pocketful": pocketfuls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pocketful" (pronounced pÄ"kutfuh'l) |
| 3 | -f uh' l | bagful, handful, spoonful, mouthful, roomful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-k-l-o-p-t-u" | |
-2 letters: couplet, fetlock, octuple, potluck. | |
-3 letters: couple, locket, lockup, pocket, potful, topful, tupelo. | |
-4 letters: cleft, clept, clout, coupe, culet, cupel, fleck, flock, flout, fluke, flute, ketol, letup, loupe, pluck, poult. | |
-5 letters: celt, clef, clop, clot, clue, coft, coke, cole, colt, cope, cote, coup, cuke, cult, cute, feck, felt, floc, floe, flop, flue, folk, foul, fuel. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-k-l-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: pocketfuls, pocketsful. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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