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Definition: Truffle |
TruffleNoun1. Any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe. 2. Edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber. 3. Creamy chocolate candy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Truffle \Truf"fle\, noun. [Old French expression trufle, French truffe; akin to Spanish trufa, tartufo; of uncertain origin; perhaps from Latin tuber tumor, knob, truffle. Compare to Tuber, Trifle.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TruffleSynonyms: chocolate truffle (n), earth-ball (n), earthnut (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Truffle describes a group of edible mycorrhizal (subterranean) mushrooms (genus Tuber, class Ascomycetes, division Mycota).
The ascoma (fruiting body) of truffles is considered gourmet food and usually quite expensive. Looking for truffles in open ground is often enhanced by specially trained pigs or dogs. Best known are Tuber melanosporum (black truffle) and Tuber magnatum (white truffle), both found in western Europe.
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Truffle is also a confection of chocolate.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Truffle."
Crosswords: Truffle |
| English words defined with "truffle": false truffle ♦ Native bread ♦ Swinebread ♦ Trub. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "truffle": Trub. (references) |
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| "Truffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Truffle" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "truffle": chocolate truffle ♦ false truffle ♦ Truffle worm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "truffle": truffle-guzzling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "truffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhardhok këpurdhash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الكمأة نبات, الكمأة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 块菌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lanýž. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trøfler, trøffel, tilberede med troefler (stuff with truffles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trufferen (stuff with truffles), truffels, truffel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | multasieni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | truffe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trüffel (truffles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρούφφα, τρούφα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szarvasgomba (club-top mushroom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tartufo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 西洋松露 , トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trim, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トリュフ , せいようしょうろ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | struffyl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uffletray trufa (pignut, tuber), túbera (pignut, tuber). (various references) трюфель. (various references) tartuf. (various references) trufa. (various references) tryffel. (various references) yermantarı. (various references) трюфель. (various references) nấm truyp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Tuber spp.. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | tartufolo. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | tartuffe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "truffle": truffled, truffles. (additional references) | |
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"Truffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pruffle, Trauffler, treffrey, triffle, trufe, trufel, truff, truffe, truffel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "truffle" (pronounced tru"ful) |
| 5 | -r u" f u l | ruffle. |
| 4 | -u" f u l | duffel, kerfuffle, muffle, reshuffle, scuffle, shuffle. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, scornful, shameful, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fretful. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fluter, ruffle, truffe. | |
-2 letters: flute, ruffe. | |
-3 letters: felt, flue, fret, fuel, furl, left, luff, lure, lute, reft, ruff, rule, teff, tref, true, tuff, tule, turf. | |
-4 letters: eff, eft, elf, fer, fet, feu, flu, fur, let, leu, ref, ret, rue, rut, tel. | |
-5 letters: ef, el, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: truffled, truffles. | |
+2 letters: effortful, forgetful, fretfully, ruffliest. | |
+4 letters: effortfully, faultfinder, fearfullest, forgetfully, fretfulness, fruitfuller. | |
+5 letters: faultfinders, foresightful, fruitfullest, fruitfulness. | |
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