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Toed

Definition: Toed

Toed

Adjective

1. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in combination; "long-toed"; "five-toed".

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

Date "toed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)

 

Synonym: Toed

Synonym: toe (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: toeless (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toed

English words defined with "toed": To come to the scratch. (references)
Specialty definitions using "toed": SQUARE TOES. (references)

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Modern Usage: Toed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Frog in the swamp, where mosquitoes and fireflies roam, Where if you're rod toed, you stay out of the road, Cause the cars that go by, they don't honk (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott)

Movie/TV Titles

Horny Toed (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: Toed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kelly and the Three Toed Horse: A Novel Featuring Yellowstone Kelly, Gentleman and Scout (reference)

  • Last of the Green Toed Fruit Bats (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Toed

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Usage Frequency: Toed

"Toed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Toed" is used about 13 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)84.62%11106,044
Lexical Verb (past participle)15.38%2245,945
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Expressions: Toed

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "toed": toed-in, toed-out.

Ending with "toed": curly-toed, long-toed, open-toed, short-toed, three-toed, tip-toed, two-toed.

Containing "toed": even-toed ungulate, fringe-toed lizard, odd-toed ungulate, short-toed eagle, three-toed sloth, two-toed anteater, two-toed sloth, web-toed salamander.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toed

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

three toed sloth

78

fringe lizard toed

4

steel toed boot

43

camel toed

4

steel toed shoes

40

cruz long salamander santa toed

3

three toed box turtle

37

3 picture sloth toed

3

sloth toed two

25

cat seven toed

3

cat six toed

24

cat five toed

3

pigeon toed

19

boot steel toed womens

3

open toed shoes

18

closed sandal toed

3

closed toed shoes

16

sneaker steel toed

2

3 toed sloth

13

drawing sloth three toed

2

steel toed work boot

9

horse pigeon toed

2

picture sloth three toed

9

shoes steel toed woman

2

pink toed tarantula

8

picture sloth toed two

2

6 cat toed

8

three toed turtle

2

3 box toed turtle

7

rodent three toed

2

long toed salamander

6

child pigeon toed

2

steel toed tennis shoes

6

information sloth three toed

2

three toed woodpecker

5

open toed pump

2

four toed salamander

5

box breeding three toed turtle

2

shoes steel toed womens

4

safety shoes steel toed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toed

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

Chinese 

  

"脚尖踢 (Toeing). (various references)

   

Danish

  

indsunket mundstykke (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ingezakte koprand (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

painunut suu (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

French

  

bague retombée (toed-in finish). (various references)

   

German

  

eingezogene Mündung (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθισμένο στόμιο (toed-in finish, warped finish), στρεβλωμένο στόμιο (toed-in finish, warped finish), φιδαετός (short toed eagle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

imboccatura mancante (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

外股 (pigeon toed). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そとまた (pigeon toed). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

발끝으로 밟". (various references)

   

Manx

  

as barbeen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oedtay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

marisa descaída (toed-in finish, warped finish), marisa afundada (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

boca hundida (toed-in finish, warped finish), boca deformada (toed-in finish, warped finish), boca alabeada (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

indragen mynning (toed-in finish, warped finish). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parmaklı (digitate, digitated, fingered). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Toed

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Artiodactyla, Bradypus boliviensis, Bradypus griseus, Bradypus variegatus, Calandrella brachydactyla, Calandrella cineria, Calandrella rufescens, Certhia brachydactyla, Circaetus gallicus, Perissodactyla, Picoides tridactylus, RM:evla alva, RM:lodola detta curta, RM:pitgalain traidet, RM:pitgascorsa da curtin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toed

Derivations

Words ending with "toed": autoed, dittoed, fianchettoed, ghettoed, impastoed, manifestoed, photoed, stilettoed, tippytoed, tiptoed, vetoed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Toed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joed, koed, otec, otet, taid, tao, teeld, teo, thed, thode, thoed, tled, toade, toaf, toaid, tode, Todedo, todem, toder, toea, toeb, Toeg, toek, toel, toem, toep, toer, toet, toev, Toey, toez, toiad, toid, Toida, toide, toied, toif, toked, tond, tood, toord, tord, torda, tored, toset, toud, troed, tude, tuesd, tuoe, tvoeu, twed, tyed, zoed. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Toed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "toed" (pronounced tō"d)
3t ō" dbestowed, plateaued, stowed, toad, towed.
2-ō" dabode, bestrode, blowed, bode, busload, code, commode, corrode, crowed, decode, load, lode, encode, erode, explode, flowed, forebode, glowed, goad, implode, mode, mowed, node, ode, outmode, overflowed, overrode, owed, reload, road, rode, rowed, sewed, showed, slowed, snowed, strode, unbowed, unload.

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

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Anagrams: Toed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dote.

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

-1 letter: doe, dot, ode, ted, tod, toe.

-2 letters: de, do, ed, et, od, oe, to.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-o-t"
 

+1 letter: coted, depot, detox, doest, doeth, doted, doter, dotes, godet, noted, opted, outed, toked, toled, toned, toped, toted, towed, toyed, trode, voted.

 

+2 letters: atoned, autoed, azoted, boated, bolted, booted, coated, coedit, costed, debtor, decoct, dehort, demote, denote, deport, depots, despot, detour, devote, devout, dextro, doated, docent, docket, doited, donate, dotage, doters, dotier, dotted, dottel, dotter, dottle, editor, emoted, foetid, footed, godets, hooted, hosted, hotbed, hotted, iodate, jolted, jotted, lofted, looted, lotted, louted, method, moated, modest, molted, mooted, oddest, oldest, orated, ousted, podite, ported, posted, potted, pouted, quoted, redout, redtop, retold, rioted, rodent, rooted, rotted, routed, sooted, sorted, sotted, stodge, stoked, stoled, stoned, stoped, stored, stowed, strode, tendon, teredo, tholed, thoued, toddle, todies, togaed, togged, toiled, toited, toledo, tolled, tombed, tommed, tonged, tooled, tooted, topped, tossed, totted, toured, toused, touted, triode, troked, trowed, tuxedo, vetoed, wonted, wotted.

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. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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