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Definition: Crake |
CrakeNoun1. Any of several short-billed Old World rails. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff. |
Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation, jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crake |
| English words defined with "crake": land rail ♦ Skitty, Sora, Swamp hen ♦ Water crake ♦ Yellow rail. (references) |
| "Crake" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Crake" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crake": Carolina crake ♦ spotted crake ♦ water crake ♦ yellow crake. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crake oryx | 35 |
crake | 15 |
crake oryx review | 4 |
cafesuite crake | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ð"ърдавец. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Chřástal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | plettet roervagtel (spotted crake), lille roervagtel (little crake), dvaergroervagtel (baillon's crake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | porseleinhoen (spotted crake), kleinst waterhoen (baillon's crake), klein waterhoen (little crake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کلاغ زاغی(ج.ش.), غراب (Crow, Raven), صدای کلاغ (Croak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sarothrura pulchra (white-spotted pygmy crake), rale nain à taches blanches (white-spotted pygmy crake), râle poussin (little crake), râle marouette (spotted crake), marouette poussin (little crake), marouette ponctuée (spotted crake), marouette noire (black crake), marouette de Baillon (baillon's crake), limnocorax flavirostris (black crake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rolle (bobbin, caster, Castor, coil, part, pulley, rôle, reel, role, roll, roller, runner, scroll, skid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στικτοπουλάδα (spotted crake), νανοπουλάδα (Baillon's crake), μικÏοπουλάδα (little crake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hasis (cannabis, hash, hasheesh, hashish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | voltolino (spotted crake), schiribilla macchiebianche (sarothrura pulchra, white-spotted pygmy crake), schiribilla grigiata (baillon's crake, little crake), schiribilla codarossa (striped crake), schiribilla (baillon's crake, little crake), sarothrura pulchra (sarothrura pulchra, white-spotted pygmy crake), limnocorax flavirostris (black crake, limnocorax flavirostris), gallinella nera (black crake, limnocorax flavirostris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feeagh (claim, claim debt, liability, raven, value, worth, worthwhile), fannag (crow), eean raip (corncrake, landrail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akecray codornizão (corncrake, landrail). (various references) Cârstei (landrail). (various references) КороÑтель. (various references) prdavac (landrail). (various references) polluela pintoja (spotted crake), polluela chica (baillon's crake), polluela bastarda (little crake). (various references) Sumphöna, SmÃ¥fläcklig Sumphöna, Kornknarr (corncrake, landrail). (various references) Ð"еркач. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Porzana parva, Porzana porzana, Porzana pusilla, RM:pulsauna da pali, RM:pulsauna nanina, RM:pulsauna pitschna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crake": crakes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crake": corncrake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crake": corncrakes. (additional references) | |
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"Crake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arake, carce, carke, ccake, Clake, crace, Cracoe, crae, craik, Crak, craky, crale, Creakle, Creyke, crike, criker, croke, curace. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: creak. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-r" | |
-1 letter: acre, cake, care, cark, race, rack, rake, reck. | |
-2 letters: ace, arc, are, ark, car, ear, era, kae, kea, rec. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, er, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-r" | |
+1 letter: arcked, backer, cakier, calker, canker, carked, crakes, creaks, creaky, dacker, hacker, jacker, lacker, packer, racked, racker, racket, rackle, repack, rerack, retack, sacker, screak, tacker. | |
+2 letters: backers, blacker, bracken, bracket, cackler, calkers, cankers, caulker, charked, clacker, comaker, corkage, cracked, cracker, crackle, cranked, cranker, crankle, creaked, croaked, croaker, dackers, earlock, grackle, hackers, hackler, jackers, keramic, keycard, knacker, lackers, packers, prepack, rackers, rackets, rackety, repacks, reracks, restack, retacks, retrack, sackers, screaks, screaky, slacker, smacker, stacker, tackers, tackier, tackler, tracked, tracker, wackier, whacker, wracked. | |
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