Potful

  

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Potful

Definition: Potful

Potful

Noun

1. The quantity contained in a pot.

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

Date "potful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

"Potful" is a common misspelling or typo for: pitfall, pitiful.


Synonym: Potful

Synonym: pot (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Potful

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Potful of Recipes: A Healthy Exchanges Cookbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Potful

"Potful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potful" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Potful

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

Farsi 

  

دیگ پر, بقدریک دیگ . (various references)

   

German

  

topfvoll. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fazéknyi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otfulpay

   

Russian 

  

полный горшок. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

crochanaid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Potful

Derivations

Words beginning with "potful": potfuls. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Potful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: topful.

Words within the letters "f-l-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: flout, poult.

-2 letters: flop, foul, loft, loup, lout, plot, pouf, pout, tofu, tolu.

-3 letters: flu, fop, fou, lop, lot, oft, opt, out, pol, pot, pul, put, top, tup, upo.

-4 letters: lo, of, op, to, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "f-l-o-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: potfuls, poutful, topfull.

 

+2 letters: sportful.

 

+3 letters: pocketful, postfault, profluent.

 

+4 letters: pocketfuls, pocketsful, sportfully.

 

+5 letters: bulletproof, teaspoonful.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Potful


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

50 6F 74 66 75 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)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#116 &#102 &#117 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 0066 0075 006C

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

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

508186728778

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INDEX

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


  

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