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WADED

Definitions: WADED

WADED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Wade

2. Of Wad

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WADED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Crosswords: WADED

English words defined with "WADED": The Deity. (references)

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Use in Literature: WADED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The men shucked off their pants, peeled their shirts, and waded out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: WADED

"WADED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 83.16% of the time. "WADED" is used about 95 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)83.16%7937,388
Lexical Verb (past participle)15.79%1590,616
Adjective (general or positive)1.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%95N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WADED

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

  cruzado salas waded

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WADED

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

Chinese 

  

趟过 (Wading). (various references)

   

German

  

watete, gewatet. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

도섭하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adedway

   

Russian 

  

идти вброд/ (wading). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: WADED

Misspellings

"WADED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iwade, vaded, Wadal, wadeds, wadie, wadit, waed, wafed, waied, wared, wased, wated, waude, wawed, weded, wided, widex, Wladek. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "WADED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "WADED" (pronounced wā"dud)
5w ā" d u ddissuaded, persuaded.
4-ā" d u daided, bladed, blockaded, braided, cascaded, degraded, evaded, faded, graded, invaded, jaded, paraded, pervaded, raided, serenaded, shaded, traded, unaided, upbraided.
3-d u dabided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upgraded, voided, wadded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: WADED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dawed.

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-w"

-1 letter: awed, dead, wade.

-2 letters: add, awe, dad, daw, dew, wad, wae, wed.

-3 letters: ad, ae, aw, de, ed, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-w"
 

+1 letter: dawdle, dawned, dawted, wadded, wadder, waddie, waddle, warded, woaded.

 

+2 letters: awarded, bedward, dawdled, dawdler, dawdles, dewaxed, drawled, dwarfed, swaddle, swarded, twaddle, wadders, waddied, waddies, waddled, waddler, waddles.

 

+3 letters: bedwards, daneweed, dawdlers, deadwood, declawed, headwind, headword, rawhided, rewarded, shadowed, sideward, swaddled, swaddles, twaddled, twaddler, twaddles, waddlers, wandered, wideband.

 

+4 letters: bedwarfed, cedarwood, daneweeds, deadwoods, dewatered, dewlapped, disavowed, downgrade, forwarded, hardwired, headwinds, headwords, saddlebow, sidewards, stewarded, towheaded, twaddlers, unawarded, wadsetted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WADED


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

57 41 44 45 44

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)

01010111 01000001 01000100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#68 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0044 0045 0044

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

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

5735383938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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