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Threadworm

Definition: Threadworm

Threadworm

Noun

1. Small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children.

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


Synonym: Threadworm

Synonym: pinworm (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Threadworm

"Threadworm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Threadworm" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Threadworm

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

  threadworm

14

  picture threadworm

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Threadworm

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

Arabic 

  

‏الدودة الخيطية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

детски глист. (various references)

   

Danish

  

trikin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

trichine. (various references)

   

French

  

trichine, oxyure (thread). (various references)

   

German

  

Trichine (trichina). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τριχίνη (trichina). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trichina. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蟯虫 (pinworm). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎょうちゅう (in the middle of a line, pinworm). (various references)

   

Manx

  

beishteig snaieagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadwormthray

   

Portuguese

  

triquinose (trichinosis), verme intestinal, verme filiforme, oxiúro (oxyuris), ascáride. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trichinã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

triquina. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Threadworm

Derivations

Words beginning with "threadworm": threadworms. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Threadworm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-m-o-r-r-t-w"

-1 letter: earthworm, heartworm.

-2 letters: damewort, harrowed, homeward, marrowed, mortared.

-3 letters: armored, arrowed, earworm, hoarder, madwort, teraohm, thrawed, thrower, towhead, worthed, wrathed.

-4 letters: adorer, darter, dearth, dehort, deworm, dormer, drawer, dreamt, harder, harmed, harmer, harrow, hatred, marred, marrow, marted, meadow, method, moated, mortar, mother, orated, radome, ramrod, rather, redowa, redraw, remora, retard, reward, rewarm, reword, rhetor.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-m-o-r-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: threadworms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Threadworm


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

54 68 72 65 61 64 77 6F 72 6D

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)

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

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