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Definition: Thighbone |
ThighboneNoun1. The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thighbone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonyms: ThighboneSynonyms: femoris (n), femur (n). (additional references) |
| "Thighbone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Thighbone" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "thighbone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | استخوان ران . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schenkelknochen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קולית, עצם הירך (femur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | femore (femur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大腿骨 (femur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | だいたいこつ (femur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | craue y cleeasid, craue lheshey (hip bone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighbonethay бедренная кость (femur, thigh-bone). (various references) fémur (femur). (various references) uyluk kemiği, kalça kemiği (femur, hipbone, huckle-bone, ilium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "thighbone": thighbones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-t" | |
-3 letters: biogen, eighth, ethion, height, henbit, hoeing, hogtie, toeing. | |
-4 letters: begin, begot, being, beton, bight, bigot, binge, bingo, biont, bogie, boing, boite, eight, heigh, hight, hinge, ingot, neigh, night, ohing, thegn, thein, thigh, thine, thing, thong, tigon, tinge. | |
-5 letters: bent, beth, bine, bint, bite, bone, bong, both, ebon, gent, gibe, gien, gone, hent, heth. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: thighbones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 69 67 68 62 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... .. --. .... -... --- -. . |
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