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Kotoko

Definition: Kotoko

Kotoko

Noun

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

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


Non-Fiction Usage: Kotoko

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Chad

In the north and center, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Arabs, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim. (references)

Travel

Chad

Logone Gana: A Kotoko village with a population of several thousand people. (references)

Chad

This fishing village on the Logone is walled with several two-story buildings in the traditional Kotoko style. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Kotoko

"Kotoko" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Kotoko" is used about 5 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
Noun (proper)80%4175,879
Noun (singular)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kotoko

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kotoko

18

kotoko shiraishi

14

asante kotoko kumasi

12

chobits kotoko

12

asante fc kotoko

4

forum kotoko

3

kotoko mp3

3

asante kotoko

3

i kotoko ve

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Kotoko

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "k-k-o-o-o-t"

-2 letters: kook, koto, took.

-3 letters: oot, too.

-4 letters: to.

 Words containing the letters "k-k-o-o-o-t"
 

+4 letters: pocketbook.

 

+5 letters: pocketbooks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Kotoko


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

4B 6F 74 6F 6B 6F

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)

-.-    ---    -    ---    -.-    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001011 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#111 &#116 &#111 &#107 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 006F 0074 006F 006B 006F

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

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

458186817781

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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