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Definition: Tongue Twister |
Tongue TwisterNoun1. An expression that is difficult to articulate clearly; "`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
tongue twister | 434 |
kid tongue twister | 12 |
child tongue twister | 7 |
english tongue twister | 5 |
kswiss tongue twister | 5 |
k swiss tongue twister | 4 |
poem tongue twister | 4 |
esl tongue twister | 4 |
spanish tongue twister | 3 |
introduction tongue twister | 3 |
hardest tongue twister | 3 |
french tongue twister | 2 |
dirty tongue twister | 2 |
funny tongue twister | 2 |
adult tongue twister | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tongue twister"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | frazë fort e vështirë për t'u shqiptuar, fjalëshpejtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كلمة صعبة النطق (mouthful), جملة صعبة النطق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скоропоговорка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jazykolam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phrase difficile prononcer, mot difficile prononcer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zungenbrecher (jawbreaker, mouthful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλωσσοδέτησ (jaw breaker), δυσκολοπρόφερτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מל" קשת בטוי, שובר ש ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyelvtörõ (jaw-breaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scioglilingua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 早口言葉 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はやくち"とば. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onguetay istertway скороговорка (patter, tongue-twister). (various references) fraza teška za izgovaranje. (various references) trabalenguas. (various references) tungvrickare. (various references) tekerleme (nursery rhyme, rigmarole), söylemesi zor sözcük. (various references) скоромовка (patter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Tongue Twister" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tounge twister. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: outsteering. | |
-3 letters: outwritten, stuttering, trusteeing. | |
-4 letters: genitures, grottiest, groutiest, outseeing, outwrites, resetting, restitute, retesting, rewetting, rottenest, stereoing, strutting, tenorites, tottering, toweriest, troutiest, westering. | |
-5 letters: egestion, eringoes, estrogen, esurient, eugenist, generous, genitors, geniture, gentries, gitterns, goutiest, grisette, guttiest, insetter, integers, interest, nettiest, noisette, nuttiest, oneriest, outgrins, outrings, outsteer, outwrite, reesting, resewing, resowing, retinues, reunites, rousting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 67 75 65 54 77 69 73 74 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n g u e   T w i s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0067 0075 0065 0054 0077 0069 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548180738771254897585867184 |
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