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Soft-footed

Definition: Soft-footed

Soft-footed

Adjective

1. Sound of quiet gentle steps.

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

Date "soft-footed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Usage Frequency: Soft-footed

"Soft-footed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soft-footed" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

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

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Anagrams: Soft-footed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-o-o-o-s-t-t"

-4 letters: footed, offset, oftest, setoff, sooted, sotted, tooted.

-5 letters: doest, doffs, dotes, feods, foods, foots, offed, ottos, stood, teffs, toffs, tofts, toots, toted, totes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Soft-footed


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

53 6F 66 74 2D 66 6F 6F 74 65 64

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

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

01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 00101101 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#102 &#116 &#45 &#102 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0066 0074 002D 0066 006F 006F 0074 0065 0064

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

5381728615728181867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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