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Definition: Pronged |
ProngedAdjective1. Having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork". 2. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pronged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonyms: ProngedSynonyms: bifurcate (adj), biramous (adj), branched (adj), forked (adj), prongy (adj), tined (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pronged |
| English words defined with "pronged": Earthfork ♦ hairpin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pronged": ALMOND-PASTE MOLDER ♦ Boric Acid Solution ♦ chinese rake ♦ decorator, hand ♦ fisher, sponge hooking, fruit picker ♦ glove finisher, GLOVE FORMER, glove presser, glove turner and former ♦ HARVEST WORKER, FRUIT ♦ layer-off ♦ marzipan molder ♦ PROTECTOR-PLATE ATTACHER ♦ SPONGE HOOKER, SPUR CHUCK, strike-plate attacher. (references) |
| "Pronged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pronged" 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) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pronged": five-pronged, four-pronged, multi-pronged, three-pronged, two-pronged. | |
Containing "pronged": three-pronged attack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pronged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me dhëmbë, me degëzim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | промушен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mající hroty. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tandhakke (pronged hoe), krogbaand (pronged band), hakke med tandet blad (pronged hoe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | punthak (pronged hoe), tandhak (all-share weeder, pronged hoe, zig-zag weeder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | haarakuokka (pronged hoe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fourche crochue (pronged hoe), crochet (pronged hoe), croc (pronged hoe), bague d'orthodontie crochets (pronged band). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zinkig (toothed), zackig (brisk, craggy, dynamic, jagged, pointed, smart, snappish, zippy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυτερόσ (cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, peaked, piked, spicate, spiculate, spiky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogas (coat rack, coat stand, dentate, hanger, Hungarian fish, pass, rack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | forca ricurva (pronged hoe), forca dentata (pronged hoe), cordoncino ortodentico con uncinetti (pronged band). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goullanagh, gahagh (irradiant, radiate, venomous, venomous as look). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongedpray com dentes. (various references) снабженный зубцами. (various references) račvast (bifurcate, branching, forked). (various references) azada dentada (pronged hoe), aro ortodóntico de ganchos (pronged band). (various references) handkultivator (grubber, hand grubber, pronged hoe). (various references) çatallı (forked, furcate, spiny). (various references) có răng (denticulate, denticulated), có ngạnh, có chĩa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "pronged": multipronged. (additional references) | |
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"Pronged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paringaud, ponged, pongid, pongidae, prange, pranged, Prenge, prodge, progged, progna, Progoda, proned, pronet, pronge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pronged" (pronounced prô"ngd) |
| 4 | -r ô" ng d | thronged, wronged. |
| 3 | -ô" ng d | belonged, longed, prolonged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: groped, ponder, ponged. | |
-2 letters: doper, drone, genro, goner, gored, grope, pedro, pengo, pored, prone, prong, redon, roped. | |
-3 letters: doer, doge, done, dong, dope, dore, dorp, dreg, drop, ergo, goer, gone, gore, gorp, nerd, node, nope, ogre, oped, open, pend, peon, pond, pone, pong, pore, porn, prod, prog, redo, rend, repo, rode, rope. | |
-4 letters: den. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: dognaper. | |
+2 letters: deploring, deporting, dognapers, dognapper, godparent, gunpowder, paragoned, pondering, powdering, precoding, prognosed, prolonged, ungrouped. | |
+3 letters: dognappers, godparents, gunpowders, jeoparding, peroxiding, portending, premolding, proceeding, propending, protending, readopting, responding, torpedoing. | |
+4 letters: copyreading, deploringly, monographed, preadopting, preordering, proceedings, promenading, redeploying, redisposing, reproducing, ropedancing, topdressing. | |
+5 letters: depolarizing, deprograming, dopaminergic, doppelganger, jeopardising, jeopardizing, multipronged, outspreading, overpedaling, overspending, predigestion, predisposing, premodifying, preordaining, prerecording, proofreading, propagandize, redepositing, redeveloping, ropedancings, topdressings, unprogrammed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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