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-FUL

Definition: -FUL

-FUL

Adjective

1. A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -FUL

Etymologies containing "-FUL": Direfulmerciful. (references)

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Usage Frequency: -FUL

"-FUL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "-FUL" is used about 7 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%7133,076

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

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Rhyming with "-FUL"

Words ending with "ul": Nul. (additional references)

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Anagrams: -FUL

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: flu.

 Words containing the letters "f-l-u"
 

+1 letter: flub, flue, flus, flux, foul, fuel, full, furl, gulf, luff.

 

+2 letters: afoul, awful, bluff, fauld, fault, filum, flour, flout, flubs, flued, flues, fluff, fluid, fluke, fluky, flume, flump, flung, flunk, fluor, flush, flute, fluty, fluyt, fouls, fuels, fugal, fugle, fulls, fully, furls, fusel, fusil, fuzil, gulfs, gulfy, luffa, luffs, sluff, sulfa, sulfo, woful.

 

+3 letters: afflux, aidful, aimful, armful, artful, bagful, befoul, begulf, bluffs, boxful, canful, capful, carful, cupful, duffel, duffle, earful, efflux, engulf, eyeful, facula, famuli, faucal, faulds, faults, faulty, faunal, fecula, ferula, ferule, feudal, fibula, fitful, flatus, flaunt, fleury, flours, floury, flouts, fluent, fluffs, fluffy, fluids, fluked, flukes, flukey, flumed, flumes, flumps, flunks, flunky, fluors, flurry, fluted, fluter, flutes, flutey, fluxed, fluxes, fluyts, folium, fouled, fouler, foully, frugal, fuddle, fueled, fueler, fugled, fugles, fulcra, fulfil, fulgid, fulham, fullam, fulled, fuller, fulmar, fumble, fumuli, fungal, funnel, furled, furler, fusels, fusile, fusils, futile, fuzils, gulfed, hatful, influx, ingulf, ireful, jarful, joyful, jugful, lapful, lawful, luffas, luffed, manful, muffle, mugful, outfly, panful, potful, purfle, reflux, refuel, rueful, ruffle, ruffly, sinful, sluffs, sobful, sulfas, sulfid, sulfur, tinful, topful, tubful, tufoli, uglify, unfelt, unfold, unfurl, upflow, upfold, uplift, useful, vatful, waeful, wilful, woeful.

 

+4 letters: alfaqui, antiflu, armfuls, armsful, awfully, bagfuls, bagsful, baleful, baneful, bashful, befouls, begulfs, bluefin, bluffed, bluffer, bluffly, boatful, bookful, bowlful, boxfuls, brimful, buffalo, cageful, canfuls, cansful, capfuls, careful, carfuls, conflux, cupfuls, cupsful, dareful, default, direful, dishful, doleful, doomful, duffels, duffles, dulcify, dutiful, earfuls, easeful, effulge, engulfs, eyefuls, fabliau, fabular, factful, factual, faculae, facular, faculty, failure, fallout, famulus, fateful, faucals, faucial, faulted, fearful, feculae, felucca, ferrule, ferulae, ferulas, feruled, ferules, fibulae, fibular, fibulas, figural, fistful, fistula, flaneur, flareup, flaunts, flaunty, flavour, flexure, floccus, floruit, flounce, flouncy, floured, flouted, flouter, flubbed, flubber, flubdub, fluency, flueric, fluffed, fluidal, fluidic, fluidly, flukier, fluking, fluming, flummox, flumped, flunked, flunker, flunkey, fluoric, fluorid, fluorin, flushed, flusher, flushes, fluster, fluters, flutier, fluting, flutist, flutter, fluvial, fluxing, fluxion, foldout, folious, foliums, forkful, formful, formula, foulard, foulest, fouling, frenula, fretful, fuddled, fuddles, fuelers, fueling, fuelled, fueller, fugally, fuggily, fugling, fulcrum, fulfill, fulfils, fulgent, fulhams, fullams, fullers, fullery, fullest, fulling, fulmars, fulmine, fulness, fulsome, fulvous, fumbled, fumbler, fumbles, fumulus, funeral, fungals, funicle, funnels, funnily, furcula, furlers, furless, furling, furlong, furrily, fusible, fusibly, fusilli, fussily, fustily, futural, fuzzily, gainful, gleeful, gruffly, gulfier, gulfing, handful, harmful, hateful, hatfuls, hatsful, heedful, helpful, hopeful, huffily, hurtful, hushful, ingulfs, jarfuls, jarsful, jestful, jugfuls, jugsful, kistful, lapfuls, lifeful, liquefy, liquify, lucifer, luffing, lungful, lustful, mindful, moanful, mouflon, mudflap, mudflat, mudflow, muffled, muffler, muffles, mugfuls, museful, needful, nonfuel, nullify, odorful, ourself, outfall, outfeel, outfelt, outflew, outflow, outfool, pailful, painful, panfuls, pipeful, pitiful, playful, potfuls, poutful, puffily, purfled, purfles, pushful, qualify, rackful, refuels, refusal, refutal, restful, roomful, ruffled, ruffler, ruffles, ruthful, sackful, scuffle, shuffle, skilful, skinful, sluffed, snuffle, snuffly, songful, souffle, soulful, subfile, sulfate, sulfide, sulfids, sulfite, sulfone, sulfurs, sulfury, swayful, synfuel, tactful, tankful, tearful, teenful, tinfuls, toilful, topfull, trayful, truffle, tubfuls, tuftily, tuneful, ufology, unfitly, unfolds, unfurls, upfield, upfling, upflows, upflung, upfolds, uplifts, vatfuls, wailful, wakeful, wameful, willful, wishful, wistful, wofully, zestful.

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

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Alternative Orthography: -FUL


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

2D 46 55 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

00101101 01000110 01010101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#70 &#85 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0046 0055 004C

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

15405546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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