Fingernail

  

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Fingernail

Definition: Fingernail

Fingernail

Noun

1. The nail at the end of a finger.

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

Date "fingernail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Fingernail

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

The inelastic, translucent, horny plate formed of flat cornified epidermal cells. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Fingernail

English words defined with "fingernail": agnailhalf-moon, hangnaillunula, lunulequickwhitlowwort. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fingernail": COATERFINGERNAIL FORMERpill coater, pyrophoric sphaleritetablet coater. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fingernail

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I ordered every alternate fingernail to be removed, and you know, I still get a card from him every Christmas. (The Missionary; writing credit: Michael Palin)

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

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Commercial Usage: Fingernail

DomainTitle

Books

  • Christmas Fingernail Tattoos (reference)

  • Dr. Chi's Method of Fingernail and Tongue Analysis (reference)

  • Fingernail Art (reference)

  • Fingernail Biting: Theory, Research and Treatment (reference)

  • Fingernail Moon (Mama's Journal) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Usage Frequency: Fingernail

"Fingernail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fingernail" is used about 66 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%6641,290

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

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Expressions: Fingernail

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "fingernail": fingernail-sized, fingernail-trimming.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fingernail

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  fingernail

858

  fingernail spot white

21

  fingernail health

156

  long fingernail fetish

21

  fingernail ridge

135

  peeling fingernail

20

  long fingernail

132

  fingernail splitting

20

  fingernail problem

111

  fingernail infection

18

  fingernail disease

105

  fingernail decals

17

  fingernail fungus

99

  breaking fingernail

16

  fingernail care

91

  ingrown fingernail

15

  fingernail vitamin

83

  healthy fingernail

15

  split fingernail

65

  fingernail long polished

14

  fingernail art

43

  fingernail condition

13

  fingernail polish

38

  fingernail growth

13

  ridge in fingernail

32

  fingernail product

12

  fetish fingernail

32

  cause fingernail ridge

12

  fingernail design

32

  ridged fingernail

12

  fingernail disorder

30

  fingernail injury

11

  biting fingernail

26

  fake fingernail

11

  fingernail long man

26

  fingernail long picture

11

  fingernail yellow

23

  fingernail long red

11

  fingernail picture

22

  artificial fingernail

11
  

brittle fingernail

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fingernail

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

Albanian

  

thua (claw, nail, toe nail). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ظفر (nail, success, unguis, victory, win). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

uña. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

sillu. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ingala. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

awó'taanookitsis. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нокът (claw, nail). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

kuko. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

pápakes. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

指"盖, 指" . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

ewyn. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nehet (nail). (various references)

   

Danish

  

negl (nail, toenail, unguis). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

sillu. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

fingranegl. (various references)

   

French

  

ongle. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

neil (nail). (various references)

   

German

  

Fingernagel (finger nail). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νύχη. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צפצרן (nail). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

köröm (claw, dent, finger nail, nail, toenail). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

kukik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

unghia (claw, hoof, nail, toenail, unguis). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"爪 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なまづめ. (various references)

   

Kongo

  

luzala. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

손톱. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

nokt. (various references)

   

Manx

  

yngin. (various references)

   

Maori

  

matikuku. (various references)

   

Maya

  

iichak. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

otsi'era. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingernailfay

   

Portuguese

  

unha (nail, toenail), tacha (button, hobnail, nail, tack, traffic stud), prego (Brad, dowel, kingpin, nail, pin, Spike, spike tooth, tack, wire nail), lã grossa para meias, garra (Chela, clamshell, claw, cleat, clutch, fork, grab, grapple, griff, grip, lifting grab, nail, nipper, paw, pawl, prong, talon, tread bar, tyre tread). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

ongla. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

ungla. (various references)

   

Romany

  

nay . (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

inzara. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ноготь (finger-nail, nail, toenail). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

atigilima. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

lenala. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nokat na prstu. (various references)

   

Shona

  

nzara (talon). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

uña (arm, bill, claw, feather, nail, palm, peak, prong). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

lú-galo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fingernagel. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tırnak (cam, claw, nail). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ніготь пальця. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Fingernail

Derivations

Words beginning with "fingernail": fingernails. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Fingernail"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "fingernail" (pronounced fi"nggernā'l)
3-n ā' lBiennale, doornail, hobnail, thumbnail, toenail.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fingernail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-r"

-1 letter: renailing.

-2 letters: aliening, arginine, finagler, gainlier, infernal, infringe, learning, refiling, refining, relining.

-3 letters: aginner, airline, aligner, alining, aneling, aniline, eanling, earning, engrail, engrain, failing, fairing, fearing, finagle, finnier, flanger, flaring, flinger, fragile, ginnier, grannie, ingrain, lairing, leafing, leaning, lingier, nailing, nargile, nearing, railing, raining, realign, reginal, reining, rifling.

-4 letters: ailing, airing, aliner, angler, anilin.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-r"
 

+1 letter: fingernails, infrangible, reinflating.

 

+3 letters: overinflating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fingernail


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

46 69 6E 67 65 72 6E 61 69 6C

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)

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

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

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100001 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#97 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 006E 0061 0069 006C

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

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

40758073718480677578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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