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Definition: Ruckle |
RuckleVerb1. Make a hoarse, rattling sound. 2. Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ruckle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
"Ruckle" is a common misspelling or typo for: buckle, suckle, truckle, truckled, truckler. |
Synonyms: RuckleSynonyms: crease (v), crinkle (v), crisp (v), scrunch (v), scrunch up (v), wrinkle (v). (additional references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ruckle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ruckle | Last name | 300 | 27,184 |
| 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 |
park ruckle | 5 |
ruckle provincial park | 4 |
ruckle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ruckle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, crease, Crinkle, furrow, pucker, rugosity, seam, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Arabic | تغصن (offshoot, ramification), تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruffle, rumple), إنثنى (bend over, buckle, flex, folding), إنثناء (flection, flexion, flexure, inflection, sag). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хриптя (crepitate), нагъвам (cockle, corrugate, flex, fold, gobble, lap, punish, put away, scoff, tuck away, tuck into, walk into, wolf), бръчка (cockle, corrugation, line, plica, plication, pucker, ruck, ruffle, rugosity, rumple, seam, wrinkle), дипла (double, flute, fold, pleat, ruck, treenail). (various references) | |
French | se froisser, se chiffonner, godet (ruck), froisser (ruffle, rumple), faux pli (ruck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקמט (crumple, crush, furrow, wrinkle), ל"תקמט (crease, crumple, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ráncol (crease, to corrugate, to crease, to crinkle, to drape, to pucker, to tuck, to wrinkle, wrinkle), ránc (crease, crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, pleat, plica, pucker, puckering, wimple, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Italian | increspare (Crinkle, gather, pucker, purse, ripple, ruck, ruffle), grinza (crease, Crinkle, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vinco (fold, wrinkle), vincar (accentuate, crease, ruck, stress, underline), preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruffle, shirr), prega (cockle, crease, crumple, double, flute, fold, gather, kink, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), franzir (corrugate, full, furrow, kilt, plait, pucker, quill, ruck, shirr, wrinkle), franzido (corrugated, crimpy, frilled, gather, pleat, pucker, quilling), estertorar, estertor (rales, rhonchi), amarrotar-se (ruck), agonizar (agonize). (various references) | |
Romanian | horcãit (snore, snoring, snort, snorting). (various references) | |
Russian | хрип (rale, rattle, wheeze). (various references) | |
Spanish | hablar con voz ronca, arrugarse (Crinkle, crumple, furrow, ruck, ruffle, shrivel up, wrinkle), arrugar (crease, furrow, line, pucker, ruck, ruffle, rumple, screw up, seam, shrivel, wrinkle, wrinkles). (various references) | |
Swedish | veck (cockle, convolution, crease, crimp, Crinkle, fold, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Turkish | buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ply, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), робити складки (crease, crimple, ruck, tuck in), хрипіти (crepitate, wheeze), хрипіння (warning, wheeze), хрип. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng ran, nếp gấp (crease, wrinkling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ruckle": ruckled, ruckles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ruckle": truckle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ruckle": truckled, truckler, trucklers, truckles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ruckle" (pronounced ru"kul) |
| 4 | -u" k u l | buckle, chuckle, Huckle, suckle, knuckle, muckle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: clerk, cruel, lucre, ulcer. | |
-2 letters: clue, cuke, cure, curl, ecru, leku, luce, luck, lure, lurk, reck, ruck, rule. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, cur, ecu, elk, kue, lek, leu, rec, rue, uke. | |
-4 letters: el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: buckler, caulker, clunker, luckier, plucker, ruckled, ruckles, sculker, suckler, truckle. | |
+2 letters: bucklers, caulkers, chuckler, clunkers, clunkier, knuckler, pluckers, pluckier, sculkers, subclerk, sucklers, truckled, truckler, truckles, wreckful. | |
+3 letters: bucklered, chucklers, cocklebur, knucklers, knucklier, parbuckle, subclerks, trucklers, truckline, unluckier. | |
+4 letters: bucklering, cherublike, cockleburs, cocksurely, lackluster, lumberjack, parbuckled, parbuckles, saucerlike, superblock, superflack, superslick, trucklines, turnbuckle, turtleback, turtleneck. | |
| 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. Synonyms 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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