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Definition: SPRAINED |
SPRAINEDImperative & past participle1. Of Sprain |
Date "SPRAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Crosswords: SPRAINED |
| English words defined with "SPRAINED": bandage ♦ ice ♦ rick ♦ Shoulder-shotten, sprain, strap ♦ turn, twist ♦ wrench, wrick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPRAINED": ANKLE ♦ lifting trauma. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Sprained Ankle (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "SPRAINED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 54.90% of the time. "SPRAINED" is used about 51 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 54.9% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 31.37% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 13.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SPRAINED": be sprained. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SPRAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扭伤 (sprain, Spraining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jalkani nyrjähti (I sprained my foot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verstauchten, verstauchte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραμπουλιγμένος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kificamodott (out of joint, perverse, wrenched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keseleo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distorcere (be sprained, distort, garble, strain, twist, warp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 挫ける (to be broken, to be crushed, to be sprained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くじける (to be broken, to be crushed, to be sprained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeynt (at full stretch, dilated, drawn out, extended, flat out, laid out, low-pitched, outstretched, procumbent, prolonged, prostrate, prostrated, rakish, sprawling, spreadeagled, strained, stretched, stretched out, tense, tense of moment, widespread), lheanit (broadened, dilated, widened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ainedspray scrântit (Batty, cracked, flighty, potty). (various references) растягивать растянутый. (various references) ysig (bruised, sore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SPRAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scraiked, spirane, spreened. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPRAINED" (pronounced sprā"nd) |
| 4 | -r ā" n d | brained, constrained, craned, drained, grained, ingrained, rained, refrained, reigned, reined, restrained, retrained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unrestrained, untrained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | abstained, arraigned, ascertained, attained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, contained, detained, disdained, entertained, explained, feigned, gained, maintained, maned, obtained, ordained, pained, pertained, planed, preordained, regained, remained, retained, stained, sustained, unexplained, unstained, waned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aspired, despair, diapers, panders, pandies, paniers, pardine, pinders, praised, randies, rapines, sandier, sardine. | |
-2 letters: aiders, arisen, arpens, arsine, aspire, deairs, denari, denars, diaper, dinars, diners, drains, drapes, irades, nadirs, padres, pained, paired, pander, panier, pardie, paries, parsed, pinder, praise, prides, prised, rained, raised, ranids, rapids, rapine, rasped, redans, redias, redips, repaid, repand. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: dipterans, kidnapers, rapidness, respading, sandpiper, spikenard, spreading. | |
+2 letters: despairing, discrepant, dispensary, dispersant, drainpipes, headspring, kidnappers, patronised, pedantries, pedestrian, persuading, philanders, predations, preordains, printheads, pyranoside, reprimands, sandpipers, scorpaenid, spikenards, springhead, transpired, wardenship, wingspread. | |
+3 letters: bespreading, caparisoned, desipramine, desperation, discrepancy, dispersants, dispreading, headsprings, interpleads, interspaced, lipreadings, palindromes, pathfinders, pedestrians, polyandries, preassigned, predynastic, pyranosides, radiophones, rapidnesses, respreading, scorpaenids, springheads, stipendiary, superadding, transhipped, unaspirated, wardenships, wingspreads. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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