Topknot

Definition: Topknot

Topknot

Noun

1. Headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair.

2. Showy crest or knot of hair or feathers.

Date "topknot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Crosswords: Topknot

English words defined with "topknot": Irish water spaniel. (references)

"Topknot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Topknot" is used about 21 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)	100%	21	76,261

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "topknot": topknot-tail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "topknot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tufëz pendësh, xhufkë (aigrette, crest, plume, pompon, shag, tassel, thrum, toupee, tuft), kaçirubë (crest), balluke (bang, forelock). (various references)

Arabic		‏القنزعة حلية للرأس. (various references)

Bulgarian		качулка (cowl, hood), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce). (various references)

Czech		klièka mašle, chocholka (tuft). (various references)

Danish		småhvarre (Norwegian topknot). (various references)

Dutch		Noorse dwergbot (Norwegian topknot). (various references)

Farsi		کاکل (Peak, Scalplock), گره زینتی روبان گیسو. (various references)

Finnish		pikkukampela (Norwegian topknot). (various references)

French		toupet, chignon. (various references)

German		Haarknoten. (various references)

Greek		φιόγκοσ τησ κεφαλήσ. (various references)

Hungarian		bóbita (tuft). (various references)

Italian		ciuffo (tuft, wisp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		髷 (bun, chignon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ま�' (bending, bun, chignon, flexure). (various references)

Manx		kereen (comb, coxcomb, crest, pack), cront mullee. (various references)

Pig Latin		opknottay

Portuguese		topete (axle pin, cowlick, effrontery, forelock, panache, tuft), tope, poupa (hoepoe, hoopoe, upupa africana), penacho (aigrette, crest, egret, panache, tuft), cabeça (brain, chief, chunk, coconut, leader, nob, noddle, nut, pate, top). (various references)

Romanian		moţ (Bob, ear, forelock, kiss-me-quick, tassel, tuft). (various references)

Russian		хохолок (cirrus, crest, pappus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		list (blade, butt, flap, flatfish, leaf, newspaper, plaice, rag, sheet), kresta (comb, crest), čuperak (cowlick, forelock, shag, shock, tuft, tussock, wisp). (various references)

Spanish		moño (bun, chignon). (various references)

Swedish		hårknut (bun). (various references)

Turkish		topuz (bun, knob, Mace, pommel, upsweep), tepe (apex, apical, cap, crest, crown, down, eminence, eminency, fell, head, height, Hill, hump, Mount, peak, ridge, rise, roof, tip, top, vertex), sorguç (aigrette, comb, crest, egret, hood, osprey, panache, tuft), ibik (comb, crest). (various references)

Ukrainian		чуб (forelock, toupee), голова (attic, bean, chair, chairman, chief, conk, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, president), пучок пір'я. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Zeugopterus punctatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "topknot": topknots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Topknot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tonkonow, Tonkunst, Topkov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "topknot" (pronounced tÄ"pnÄ't)
3	-n Ä' t	Aquanaut, astronaut, whatnot.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "k-n-o-o-p-t-t"
	-2 letters: potto.
	-3 letters: knop, knot, koto, nook, onto, otto, poon, took, toon, toot.
	-4 letters: kop, noo, not, oot, opt, pot, ton, too, top, tot.
	-5 letters: no, on, op, to.
	Words containing the letters "k-n-o-o-p-t-t"
	+1 letter: topknots.
	+4 letters: optokinetic.
	+5 letters: photokinetic.
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