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Untucked

Definition: Untucked

Untucked

Adjective

1. Lacking tucks or not being tucked; "the sheet came untucked"; "plain untucked shirt front".

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

Date "untucked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references)

 

Antonym: tucked (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Untucked

"Untucked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Untucked" is used about 4 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

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

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Anagrams: Untucked

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-n-t-u-u"

-2 letters: tucked, uncute, untuck.

-3 letters: centu, dunce, educt, nuked, tuned, uncut, undue.

-4 letters: cent, cued, cuke, cute, deck, dent, duce, duck, duct, duet, duke, dune, dunk, dunt, kent, kudu, kune, neck, neuk, nude, nuke, tend, tuck, tune, unde.

-5 letters: cud, cue, cut, den, due, dun, ecu, end, ken, kue, net, nut, ted, ten, tun, uke.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-k-n-t-u-u"
 

+5 letters: thunderstruck.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Untucked


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 74 75 63 6B 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -    ..-    -.-.    -.-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#116 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0074 0075 0063 006B 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580868769777170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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