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Definition: Oddball |
OddballNoun1. A person with an unusual or odd personality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: OddballSynonyms: eccentric (n), eccentric person (n), geek (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Oddball (1969) The Oddball Couple (1975) | |
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| "Oddball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oddball" is used about 37 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% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
oddball | 29 |
oddball shoes | 18 |
comic oddball | 9 |
oddball shirt | 3 |
decals oddball | 3 |
oddball t shirt | 3 |
imageevent.com oddball unimog | 3 |
oddball shoes company | 3 |
fish oddball | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "oddball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 穿着或行为古怪的人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عجیب وغریب (Exotic, Odd, Outlandish, Peculiar, Queer, Quizzical, Rum, Screwy, Unearthly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rare, excentrique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Exzentriker (eccentric, wack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | különc (crank, cure, deviant, dorky, eccentric, extravagant, freakish, libertine, plummet, singular man, spook, weirdie, weirdo), csodabogár (freak, libertine, queer card, queer cove, queer fish, specimen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | persona strana, eccentrica, persona strana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 変人 (crank, eccentric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へんじん (crank, eccentric, eccentric person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oddballay número ímpar. (various references) trãsnit (afflicted, cracked, crackpot, dumbfounded, queer, thunder-struck), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded). (various references) своеобразно мыслящий человек, чудак (card, codger, faddist, freak, gink, nut, odd card, odd fish, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer fish, rum customer, rum fellow, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy), оригинал (archetype, foul copy, master copy, original, rough copy). (various references) raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird), excéntrico (crackpot, eccentric, eccentrical, kinky, nut, oddbod, offbeat, original, screwball), bicho raro (oddbod, weirdie, weirdo). (various references) บุคคลที่มีพฤติกรรมแปลกๆ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) acayip kimse (crank, specimen). (various references) чудний (antic, bizarre, droll, erratic, funny, odd, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), чудернацький (crotchety, odd, outlandish, quaint, weird), чудак (oddbod, oddity), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, wacky, whacky, whimsical), дивна людина (oddity), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous), дивак (case, caution, codger, crotcheteer, eccentric, faddist, maggot, oddbod, oddity, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "oddball": oddballs. (additional references) | |
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"Oddball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ordsall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oddball" (pronounced Ä"dbô'l) |
| 4 | -d b ô' l | handball, hardball. |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, blackball, butterball, cannonball, eyeball, fastball, fireball, football, meatball, mothball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, spitball, stickball, trackball, volleyball. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: aldol, allod, dobla. | |
-3 letters: bald, ball, bola, bold, boll, dado, doll, load, olla. | |
-4 letters: abo, add, ado, alb, all, bad, bal, boa, bod, dab, dad, dal, dol, lab, lad, lob, odd, old. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, al, ba, bo, do, la, lo, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: oddballs. | |
+2 letters: dodgeball. | |
+3 letters: dodgeballs. | |
+4 letters: billboarded. | |
+5 letters: downloadable, hebdomadally, radiolabeled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 64 64 62 61 6C 6C |
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