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Ruddle

Definitions: Ruddle

Ruddle

Verb

1. Twist or braid together, interlace.

2. Redden as if with a red ocher color.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ruddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

"Ruddle" is a common misspelling or typo for: Fuddle, Riddle, Riddled, Rundle.


Synonym: Ruddle

Synonym: raddle (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ruddle

English words defined with "ruddle": Rud. (references)
Etymologies containing "ruddle": Keelivine. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Ruddle

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Usage Frequency: Ruddle

"Ruddle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Ruddle" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Ruddle

The following table summarizes the usage of "ruddle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RuddleLast name20032,946
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ruddle

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jerry ruddle

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

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Modern Translations: Ruddle

Language Translations for "ruddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Okër I Kuq (raddle, reddle), Okër (ocher, ochre, raddle, reddle), Lyej Me Okër (raddle, reddle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

червена Охра, Начервявам Нескопосано, Начервявам "рубо, "амгосвам Овце С червена Охра. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

roodaarde. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Vörösvasérccel Megjelöl (raddle, reddle), Vörösvasérc (haematite, hematite, raddle, reddle), Vörös Okker (raddle, reddle), Vörös (foxy, gules, raddle, red, reddle, ruddy, rufous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Tingere Con Ocra Rossa (raddle, reddle), Ocra Rossa (raddle, reddle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uddleray

   

Portuguese

  

Rubrica (caption, check, column, countersign, header, imprint, itemize, raddle, reddle, rubric, signature), Ocre Vermelho (keel, raddle, reddle), Marcar De Vermelho (raddle, reddle, rubricate), Almagre (raddle, reddle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Красная Или Жженая Охра, Красить Охрой. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obeležiti crvenom zemljom, crvenica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Ocre (ocher, ochre, raddle, reddle), Cubrir De Almagre (raddle, reddle), Almagre (raddle, red ocher, red ochre, reddle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Ockra (ocher, ochre, okra, practise usury, reddle). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สารย้อมสีแ"ง, ย้อมสีแ"ง. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

червона 'охра, Зашарітися, Фарбувати червоною 'охрою, ешето. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đất son đỏ (raddle, reddle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Ruddle

Derivations

Words beginning with "ruddle": ruddled, ruddles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ruddle"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ruddle" (pronounced ru"dul)
4-u" d u lbefuddle, cuddle, huddle, muddle, puddle.
3-d u laddle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ruddle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-l-r-u"

-1 letter: dured, lured, ruled, udder.

-2 letters: dude, duel, dure, leud, lude, lure, redd, rudd, rude, rued, rule.

-3 letters: del, dud, due, eld, led, leu, red, rue, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-l-r-u"
 

+1 letter: cuddler, curdled, deluder, huddler, hurdled, muddler, puddler, ruddled, ruddles.

 

+2 letters: cuddlers, cuddlier, deluders, dreadful, drumbled, huddlers, muddlers, preluded, puddlers, puddlier, trundled, unriddle.

 

+3 letters: blundered, bouldered, dreadfuls, guardedly, laundered, mouldered, plundered, precluded, rebuilded, redoubled, ridiculed, unbridled, underlaid, undersold, undrilled, unriddled, unriddles.

 

+4 letters: bladdernut, decoloured, delustered, desulfured, dreadfully, floundered, quadrupled, rudderless, shouldered, smouldered, undeclared, underlined, underworld, unheralded, unsoldered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ruddle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 75 64 64 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    ..-    -..    -..    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01110101 01100100 01100100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#117 &#100 &#100 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0075 0064 0064 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

528770707871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
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Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;
Vietnamees, vietnamez, vietnamisht, виетнамски език, виетнамски, Vietnamis, 越南語 , 越南 , 越南语, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamec, vietnamština, vietnameser, vjetmanskt, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, Fjetnameesk, vietnamese, vietnamesisch, Vietnamesin, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", 트남, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnam, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt, for Vietnamese;