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Soccer

Definition: Soccer

Soccer

Noun

1. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.

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

 

Specialty Definition: Soccer

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Hungarian (foci). (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Football

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Football refers to a number of different team sports, all of which involve scoring points with a round or ellipsoid ball in a goal defended by the opposing team.

The object of all football games is to advance the ball by kicking, running with, or passing and catching, either to the opponent's end of the field where points or goals can be scored by, depending on the game, putting the ball across the goal line between posts and under a crossbar, putting the ball between upright posts (and possibly over a crossbar), or advancing the ball across the opponent's goal line while maintaining possession of the ball.

In all football games, the team that wins is the one that has the most points or goals when a specified length of time has elapsed. The games all share a common heritage, and are descended from mob games of the Middle Ages.

See also: History of football for the shared history of all these games.

Football throughout the world

Depending on which part of the world you live in, the word football when referring to a specific game can mean any one of the above.

Because of this, much friendly' controversy has erupted over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the world. Two teams play against each other to score with a ball in the opponent's area. The agreement ends there.

International

Most of the world, outside of North America and Australia, use the term football to mean "Association football". Many also use "soccer" for the same game.

North America

In the United States and Canada, football almost always refers to American football or Canadian football, with Association football being referred to as soccer. It should be noted that although Canadian football is similar to American football this is not because Canadian football descends from American football. In fact, American football originated in the adoption of Rugby Union rules by Harvard University after it had played three matches against McGill University of Montreal, which followed the Rugby Union code. Proximity, common personalities, influences affecting both games, and the long-standing desire of the Canadian Football League to expand into the United States have kept them similar. For example, Canadian rugby's (precursor to Canadian football) early use of a limited number of American players and coaches helped introduce the forward pass into Canadian football several years after it was first introduced in the United States, while the CFL's interest in expansion to the United States led to the value of a touchdown being increased from 5 points to 6 in the 1950s.

Australia

In Australia, football usually means Australian Rules Football, although it can also mean Rugby League or Rugby Union. The term "Gridiron" is used to refer to the American form. Australian Rules Football was once historically called "Victorian football".

Conceptual art

Three sided football is played on a hexagonal pitch where goals are counted against the conceding side. This encourages shifting alliances and allows players a choice of goals to score in. It was devised by the artist Asger Jorn and has been promoted in England, Scotland, Italy and Austria by the Luther Blissett Three-sided Football League. The first known game played was organized by the London Psychogeographic Association at the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School in 1993.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Football."

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Football (soccer)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Football, (official but largely unused name: Association Football) also called soccer and occasionally known colloquially in Britain as footy is the most popular team sport in the world in both number of spectators and number of active participants. The international governing body of football is the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In many parts of the world, particularly in Europe, South America and ever increasingly in Africa, football is more than just a game: it is a way of life. Millions of people play for amateur clubs or regularly go to a stadium to follow their home team and avidly watch the game on television. Countries from these areas dominate the international game.

Name

The name Association football was first used when the sport was codified by the Football Association to distinguish it from the numerous versions of football that were around at the time. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of 'Association' and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to a student at Oxford called Charles Wreford Brown. He is said to have often referred to breakfast as 'brekkers' and rugby football as 'rugger' etc. He went on to play for the English national side and became vice-president of the Football Association. The term 'Association football' is rarely used today, though some clubs still use Association Football Club ("AFC") in their names.

In the late 19th century the word 'soccer' tended to be used by the upper-classes who played the game under that name at public schools, whilst the majority of working class people used the word 'football'. The sport was exported by expatriate Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted the common English term into their own language. Accordingly, it became Fußball in German, voetbal in Dutch, fotball in Scandinavian languages, futebol in Portuguese, and fútbol in Spanish. In French the word remained unchanged as le football (but is often shortened to le foot), although in Quebec the word is le soccer. In Italy, a ceremonial Florentine court ritual known as il calcio storico ("kickball in costume") bore enough similarly to the imported game for the word calcio to be accepted instead.

Partly as a result of Australian, football is colloquially known in Britain as footie, although in Australia itself, the word footy means either Rugby League or Australian Rules never soccer. The term 'footer' was once used, but is now obsolete.

Today the word 'soccer' is predominantly used by English-speaking nations that have evolved their own native codes of football not directly related to the Association game.

However, this was not always the case. Indeed, the first Association football team formed outside Britain was the Oneida Football Club of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Early leagues in the US mostly called themselves football leagues, including the American League of Professional Football, National Association Football League and the Southern New England Football League.

The governing body of the sport in the US did not drop the word 'football' from its name until 1974, and did not have the word 'soccer' in its name until 1945. What is now the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) was originally the US Football Association, and was formed in 1912 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. In 1945 the word 'soccer' was added to the official name of the organization and the word 'football' was kept, resulting in the name of "US Soccer Football Association".

The USSFA later dropped the word 'football', replacing it with another word beginning with "F" to become what it is today, the USSF or US Soccer Federation. Similarly in Australia the early governing bodies used the term 'British Football' (i.e. the Southern British Football Association in New South Wales, the Anglo-Australian Football Association in Victoria and the British Football Associations of Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.

In countries that didn't develop a rival sport with a claim to the name football the word 'soccer' was very rarely used. Today the growing use of the word may well owe much to the cultural dominance of the USA, which is shaping language and definitions well beyond its borders. However football remains by far the most common word used worldwide to describe the sport.

The Laws of Football

The rules of football are known as Laws of Football[1] and are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the public schoolss and universities of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but it was far from universally adopted. In particular, the width of a football goal is defined as the distance between two trees in a Cambridge park. A number of revised rules were subsequently proposed, most notably by the Sheffield football club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857 and the rules of JC Thring in 1862. These efforts culminated in the formation of the Football Association in 1863 which first met on the evening of October 26 1863. Between October and December the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London, was the setting for a series of six meetings which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the representative from Blackheath withdrew his club from the FA over a rule outlawing hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins). The Blackheath club later went on to form the Rugby Football Union.

Today the laws of football are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The board was formed in 1882 after a meeting in Manchester of the Football Association, the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and the Irish Football Association (IFA) (now the governing body in Northern Ireland and not to be confused with the Football Assocation of Ireland (FAI) the governing body in the Republic of Ireland). The International football body FIFA was formed in Paris in 1884 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the British associations.

The official rules of the game are

Object of the game

Two teams of eleven players on each side contend to get a spherical ball into the other team's goal. The side which does this the most frequently is the winner. The primary rule for this objective is that nearly all players cannot use their hands or arms in any way while on the field.

Officials

The game is presided over by a referee, whose decisions are final, assisted by two linesmen, now officially referred to in these days of PC as referee's assistants. In many games a replacement is available, and he or she is commonly known as the fourth official

Teams

Each team has a goal keeper that is allowed to touch the ball with his arms and shoulders when he is standing within the outer marked area around the home goal, which is called the penalty area (aka the "box"). The penalty area or the 18 yards box, has limits set 18 yards to each side of the goal, and 18 yards in front of it.

The ten outfield players on either side are not allowed to touch the ball with their arms or shoulders whilst the ball is in play, but may however play it with any other part of their anatomies. The sole exception to this is when the ball is kicked out of play and a throw in results.

A number, (variable by league and nation), of players may be replaced by substitutes during the course of the game. The usual reasons for a player's replacement include injury, tiredness, ineffectiveness, a tactical switch, or to waste a little time at the end of a finely poised game.

Playing field


Standard football pitch measurements (Large) (Metric)
According to IFAB regulations the length of the football field (or "pitch") for international matches should be in the range 100-110 metres and the width should be in the range 64-75 metres. (For other matches the constraints are looser: 90-120 metres length by 45-90 metres width.) The area is under a hectare.

The pitch is divided at the centre: this is the halfway line. Exactly halfway across the halfway line is the centre spot (this is where the ball commences play from). A circle is drawn around the centre spot, the centre circle which has a radius of 10 yards (9.144 m) from the centre spot.

At either end of the pitch is a goal. This is a letterbox-shaped receptacle with a net behind it whose dimensions are: 8 feet (2.44 m) in height and 24 feet (7.32 m) in width. Two boxes are marked out on the pitch in front of the goal. The smaller box, which is laid out to surround the goal at an equal distance of 6 yards (5.5 m) denotes where the goalkeeper can take goal kicks from. The outer box is known as the penalty area or the 18 yard box, and is set 18 yards (16.5 m) to each side of the goal, and 18 yards in front of it. A small semicircle is also drawn at the edge of the penalty area, the D, 10 yards (9.5m) from the penalty spot. This is an exclusion zone for all players other than the one taking the kick in the event of a penalty being awarded.

The penalty spot is immediately in the middle of and 12 yards (11 m) in front of the goal.

In each corner of the pitch a small quarter circle with a 1 yard radius is drawn where corner kicks are taken from.

Duration

Ordinarily a match lasts 90 minutes (two halves - 45 minutes each) plus any additional time for stoppages. The only events for which time may be added are for the assessment of injured players, the removal of injured players and time wasting (which may include time for substitutions). Some games, particularly knock-out competition matches, provide for 'extra time' in the event of a tied result at the end of normal time. Other variations on a theme such as the 'golden goal' or 'penalty shoot-outs' may also be involved in concluding a game.

Events

The major international competition in football is the World Cup organised by FIFA. The World Cup competition takes place over a two year period. Over 160 national teams compete in regional qualifying tournaments for a place in the finals. The final tournament which is held every four years, now involves 32 national teams (increased from 24 in 1998) competing over a 4 week period.

The major national competitions of the continents are:

The major club event in Europe is the Champions League

Violence

This has a bad side, as groups of fanatics have often caused disturbances and sometimes tragedies (see hooligans, Heysel Stadium disaster and Football War).

National leagues

Here is a list of links to national league football teams:

Standard for football club information

National football teams

Here is a list of links to pages relating to national football teams:

See also:

External links

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Synonym: Soccer

Synonym: association football (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Soccer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Soccer

English words defined with "soccer": carry, cup final ♦ dribble ♦ free kick ♦ goalie, goalkeeper, goalmouth, goaltender ♦ headshot ♦ linesman ♦ net, netball, netkeeper ♦ place kick, place-kicking ♦ soccer ball, soccer player, striker, swing ♦ tiebreaker, touchline ♦ volley ♦ Wembley. (references)
Specialty definitions using "soccer": MOLDER, INFLATED BALL ♦ pichanga, press operator, carcass. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Soccer" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (soccer ).

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Modern Usage: Soccer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What began as a traditional soccer riot has escalated into a city-wide orgy of destruction (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Of course, I may have said something about soccer being the world's most boring sport (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Soccer is the world's most popular sport (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson)

He's gonna be a soccer player, he is, he is. (Billy Madison ; writing credit: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler)

We'll bring you the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and because we've got soccer highlights, the sheer pointlessness of a zero-zero tie. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

Movie/TV Titles

Soccer (1931)

Gillette Soccer Saturday (2003)

Michael Owen's Soccer Skills (1999)

Superstars of Soccer (1997)

The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable (1996)

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

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Commercial Usage: Soccer

DomainTitle

Books

  • All American Girls: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (reference)

  • Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer (reference)

  • Teaching Soccer Fundamentals (reference)

  • Training Soccer Champions (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Soccer

Photos:
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Photo Album: Soccer

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This photo shows 2 children in soccer uniforms dribbling the ball across a field. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Soccer tournament.

Air Force soccer player.

[showing a young man standing with one foot on a soccer ball and his shadow as ayoung man with polio]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Scotland v. St. Louis in the first of seven exhibition matches played against U.S. soccer teams by a visiting Scottish team in 1949. Credit: Library of Congress.

England's goalkeeper Frank Swift, with ball, runs past Scotland's Laurie Reilly during an international soccer match, in Wembley, London. Credit: Library of Congress.

Soccer ballet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pelé, full-length portrait, kicking soccer ball in the air. Credit: Library of Congress.

Travers Island, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration at the Norwegian gunners' school. Soccer. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Soccer
 

"Soccer" by Fe Fe
Commentary: "A Boy at a Goalpost."		"Soccer Girls" by FIre Seven
Commentary: "Some soccer girls in nice outfits. :)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Soccer

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

For the older child, it is wise to limit activities such as football, soccer, skateboarding, or rollerskating. (references)

Business

Schools and universities are the primary market for soccer balls. (references)

Due to stadium brawls, soccer clubs are installing hi-tech security systems in their stadiums. (references)

Some dealers have chosen to sponsor major sport events or most popular soccer teams in recent years. (references)

Children

Afghanistan

In October 2000, the Taliban banned youths from playing soccer in Kabul on Fridays. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

In August 2000, the PVSV arrested three foreign journalists, allegedly for photographing a soccer match in Kabul. (references)

Mozambique

RTV is second only to Radio Mozambique's youth-oriented Radio Cidade in popularity, outside of broadcast times for soccer matches. (references)

Economic History

Canada

Demand has curtailed in the following sectors: sports footwear, sporting clothes, and team equipment such as football, soccer and volleyball. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Occasional exceptions to this general pattern have been a presidential guard mutiny in 1993 and anti-Ghanaian violence after a soccer match that year. (references)

Honduras

The catalyst was nationalistic feelings aroused by a series of soccer matches between the two countries, but the roots of the conflict lay in local disputes over land ownership and usage. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

A journalist had accused Tiacore of inciting persons to violence during a December 4 meeting at the soccer stadium. (references)

Belize

On August 27, 2000, two national team soccer players claimed that police beat them while they were handcuffed in Orange Walk Town. (references)

Iraq

In 2000 three soccer players who played for a team that lost an October game in the Asian Cup quarter finals, reportedly were whipped and detained for 3 days. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

Since its implementation, this measure reportedly has had considerable success in reducing discriminatory acts and behavior at soccer matches. (references)

Argentina

According to press reports, in Mar del Plata, on January 17, a Nigerian street vendor was assaulted with a hammer and robbed by soccer fans shouting racist and xenophobic insults. (references)

Argentina

Early in the year, the Argentine Soccer Association established rules to stop or cancel games when any ethnic incidents or taunting erupts, such as anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant incidents that have occurred at soccer matches in the past several years. (references)

Travel

Australia

Sports of all types are well-supported, in particular, the four football codes (Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union and soccer) and cricket. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

For example, in October the STPS refused to register a union to represent professional soccer players. (references)

Pakistan

By the end of 2000, more than 6,000 children had been removed from employment in the soccer ball industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Soccer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

I know one mom who hired a soccer coach because her baby didn't seem to be angling his hips properly while kicking her from inside the womb.

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

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Usage Frequency: Soccer

"Soccer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.49% of the time. "Soccer" is used about 1,034 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 (singular)97.49%1,0087,314
Noun (proper)2.51%2668,323
                    Total100.00%1,034N/A

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

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Expressions: Soccer

Expressions using "soccer": play soccer ♦ soccer ball ♦ soccer league ♦ soccer match ♦ soccer pitch ♦ soccer player ♦ soccer team. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "soccer": soccer-ball-shaped, soccer-illiterate, soccer-kickabout, soccer-kit, soccer-mad, soccer-mad-country, soccer-only, soccer-player, soccer-related, soccer-saturated, soccer-speak, soccer-style.

Ending with "soccer": euro-soccer, ex-soccer, rugby-soccer.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soccer

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		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

soccer

21,527

soccer game

495

slime soccer

1,901

shaolin soccer

487

soccer ball

1,653

soccer and gear

481

world cup soccer

1,454

soccer news

466

soccer goal

1,236

history of soccer

457

soccer jersey

1,180

soccer cleats

441

soccer shoes

842

womens world cup soccer

432

soccer uniform

839

world soccer

388

soccer betting

834

coaching soccer

378

major league soccer

764

soccer training

372

soccer fund raising

748

usa soccer

360

youth soccer

735

soccer trophy

358

soccer picture

709

soccer store

335

soccer fund raiser

706

soccer and video

332

soccer camp

673

soccer mom

303

equipment for soccer

625

soccer tournament

296

soccer drill

624

soccer wallpaper

285

us soccer

605

soccer player

269

womens soccer

600

italian soccer

267

soccer rule

575

brazil soccer

264
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soccer

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

Afrikaans

  

sokker (football). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

futboll (football, footer). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لعبة كرة القدم. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

fúbol. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

impila. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

футбол (association football, football, footer). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

putbol. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

足球 (football). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kopaná (football), fotbal (association football, football). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voetbal (football, soccer ball). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

fútbol. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

futbalo (football). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

fótbóltur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فوتبال , بازی فوتبال . (various references)

   

French

  

football, foot (sole). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fuotbal. (various references)

   

German

  

Fußball (football, soccer ball). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποδόσφαιρο (football). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

futboll (football). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כדורגל (football), כדור-רגל (football). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

futball (football). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sepakbola (football), futbal. (various references)

   

Irish

  

sacar (football). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pallone (ball, balloon, dance, flask, football), di calcio, calcistico, calcio (calcium, coup de pied, football, kick). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蹴球 (football), サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, satisfaction, Saturday night special, Saturn, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, soundtrack, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspend, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅうきゅう (football, weekly holiday, weekly pay), サッカー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

축구 (football). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

football (football), follber (football). (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

fudbal. (various references)

   

Manx

  

soccer. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

fotball (football). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

futbòl (football). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

occersay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

futebol (football, footer, soccer ball). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

fotbòl. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fotbal (association of football, football). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

umupira (tee shirt). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

футбол футбольный, футбол (football, footer, socker). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

soka. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

fudbal. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

iocu du cauciu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

futbolístico (football), fútbol (association football, football, footer), fútbol, de fútbol (football), balon (bale, football). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

soka (football). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fotboll (football, footer, pigskin). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กีฬาฟุตบอล (football). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

futbol (association football, football, footer), ayaktopu (football). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

футбол (association, football). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Soccer

Derivations

Words beginning with "soccer": soccers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Soccer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: occer, oscr, scer, scomer, secca, secced, Sicca, siccar, soccar, Soccio, soccor, soccur, soce, socer, socery, socor, sorcer, soxer, succer. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Soccer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "soccer" (pronounced sÄ"ker)
3-Ä" k erblocker, Clocker, Cocker, docker, gawker, hocker, laugher, locker, Ocker, rocker, shocker, Stocker.

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

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Anagrams: Soccer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-o-r-s"

-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, cosec, crocs, score, secco.

-2 letters: cero, core, cors, croc, eros, orcs, ores, recs, rocs, roes, rose, sore.

-3 letters: cor, cos, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, res, roc, roe, sec, ser.

-4 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: ciceros, cockers, coerces, recocks, soccers.

 

+2 letters: bescorch, caroches, cicorees, clockers, coachers, cocksure, coercers, coerects, concerns, concerts, conciser, coracles, cornices, corrects, cortices, couchers, croceins, crochets, crockets, crocuses, crotches, crouches, ectosarc, reoccurs, scorched, scorcher, scorches, stuccoer, succored, succorer.

 

+3 letters: accentors, acceptors, accessory, accorders, accouters, accoutres, acrolects, arccosine, cancerous, caracoles, caroaches, carroches, checkrows, chicories, cicerones, cocineras, cockerels, cockhorse, cocreates, codirects, coercions, commerces, conceders, concertos, concourse, concretes, conducers, conscribe, coprinces, corkscrew, corncakes, corniches, cornicles, corpuscle, coruscate, crescendo, croceines, crocoites, cromlechs, crotchets, cryoscope, ectosarcs, licorices, occulters, occupiers, ricochets, scarecrow, sclerotic, scorchers, scorecard, scrooched, scrooches, stuccoers, successor, succorers, succories, succoured.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions 		13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes 		17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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