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Definition: Sprawled |
SprawledAdjective1. Spread out irregularly; "sat sprawled in the big armchair"; "the sprawling suburbs"; "a big sprawly city". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sprawled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonyms: SprawledSynonyms: sprawling (adj), sprawly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sprawled |
| English words defined with "sprawled": luxuriously ♦ sprawling, sprawly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sprawled": sprawl. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The body of Harry Klug of Montclair, New Jersey, sprawled on a beach, near his motorcycle, after he was fatally shot, Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Sprawled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 70.17% of the time. "Sprawled" is used about 181 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 70.17% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 20.99% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.29% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 181 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sprawled": half-sprawled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sprawled | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sprawled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '散 (Floppy, sprawling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | breitete sich aus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tergolek (rolled over), tergelintang, gelintang, belingkang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | stravaccato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 寝そべる (to lie sprawled, to sprawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねそべる (to lie sprawled, to sprawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | surllit (tumbled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awledspray растягиваться растянутый. (various references) utsträckt (broad, extent, outstretched, prostrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Sprawled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shrawley, sprawledc, spriled, Strawalde. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sprawled" (pronounced sprô"ld) |
| 4 | -r ô" l d | crawled, drawled, enthralled, scrawled. |
| 3 | -ô" l d | appalled, auld, bald, balled, bawled, called, hauled, installed, mauled, recalled, scald, stalled, uncalled, walled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-p-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dewlaps, pedlars, warsled. | |
-2 letters: alders, dewars, dewlap, drapes, drawls, laders, lapsed, lapser, padles, padres, parled, parles, parsed, pawers, pearls, pedals, pedlar, pleads, prelaw, rasped, spader, spared, sprawl, spread, waders, walers, warped, warsle, wealds. | |
-3 letters: alder, apers, apres, arles, asper, dales, dares, deals, dears, dewar, drape, drawl, draws, earls, lader, lades, lapse, lards, lares. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-p-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: drawplates. | |
+3 letters: swordplayer. | |
+4 letters: candlepowers, swordplayers. | |
+5 letters: landownership. | |
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