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Tusker

Definition: Tusker

Tusker

Noun

1. Any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar).

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

Date "tusker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)


Modern Usage: Tusker

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tusker (2003)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tusker

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: Tusker

"Tusker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tusker" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tusker

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

beer tusker

8

tusker

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tusker

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

Albanian

  

kafkë me çatall, elefant (elephant, elephant bull). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذو ناب وبخاصة فيل, ‏ذو الناب العاجي. (various references)

   

French

  

éléphant adulte. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פיל (elephant), בעל ש "ב. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vaddisznó (boar, wild-boar). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feeacklagh (cogged, dental, dentate, indented, indented as leaf, jagged, serrated, snappy, stepped, toothed, toothlike). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uskertay

   

Russian 

  

слон с большими бивнями, кабан-секач. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slon (elephant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

elefante (elephant, elephant bull, jumbo), animal colmilludo. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

tuska. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

djur med batar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzun dişli yabandomuzu, uzun dişli fil. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кабан-сікач. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tusker

Derivations

Words beginning with "tusker": tuskers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tusker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euskara, Taskrep, Tekserv, Turker. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Tusker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-k-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: treks, trues, turks.

-2 letters: erst, kues, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rusk, rust, ruts, suer, suet, sure, trek, true, turk, tusk, ukes, user.

-3 letters: ers, kue, res, ret, rue, rut, ser, set, sue, tsk, uke, use, uts.

-4 letters: er, es, et, re, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-k-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: murkest, tuckers, turkeys, tuskers.

 

+2 letters: bruskest, burkites, drunkest, huckster, kurtoses, murkiest, musketry, restruck, strucken, truckers, truckles, turnkeys, upstroke.

 

+3 letters: autarkies, awestruck, breakouts, freakouts, grubstake, hucksters, junketers, knurliest, kreutzers, musketeer, outbreaks, quirkiest, strikeout, submarket, sunstroke, truckages, trucklers, tubeworks, turkoises, turnpikes, upstrokes.

 

+4 letters: automakers, eukaryotes, fruitcakes, goatsucker, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakes, huckstered, junketeers, keratinous, kurtosises, lackluster, musketeers, musketries, outsparkle, outworkers, overstruck, puckeriest, sauerkraut, strikeouts, submarkets, subnetwork, sunstrokes, superstock, superthick, trebuckets, trucklines, underskirt, undertakes, waterbucks.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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