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Definition: Tone-deaf |
Tone-deafAdjective1. Unable to appreciate music. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Tone-deaf" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tone-deaf" is used about 6 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tone-deaf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 口"聋. (various references) | ||||
French | ne pas avoir l'oreille musicale (be tone-deaf). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | rossz zenei hallású (unmusical), rossz hallású, botfülű (have no ear, unmusical). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 音痴 (having no ear for music). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | お"ち (having no ear for music). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 음색 귀머거리. (various references) | ||||
Manx | kiaull vouyr. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | one-deaftay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Tone-deaf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tonedeaf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: anteed, atoned, deafen, defeat, denote, donate, fantod. | |
-3 letters: anode, anted, atone, defat, donee, eaten, enate, fated, feted, noted, oaten, often, toned. | |
-4 letters: aeon, ante, daft, date, dato, deaf, dean, deet, deft, dene, dent, doat, dona, done, dote, etna, fade, fado, fane, fano, fate, feat, feed, feet, fend, feod, feta, fete, fond, font, neat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: defecation, federation. | |
+3 letters: affectioned, codefendant, confederate, defecations, federations, manifestoed. | |
+4 letters: codefendants, confederated, confederates, fianchettoed, nonfederated, overinflated, undefoliated. | |
+5 letters: confederating, confederation, confederative, cotransferred, deforestation, retransformed, thenceforward. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 65 2D 64 65 61 66 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01100100 01100101 01100001 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n e - d e a f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0065 002D 0064 0065 0061 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548180711570716772 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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