Phalarope

Definition: Phalarope

Phalarope

Noun

1. Small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics.

Etymology: Phalarope \Phal"a*rope\, noun. [Greek expression having patch of white + foot: compare to the French expression phalarope.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Phalarope

English words defined with "phalarope": Cootfoot ♦ Little swimmer, Lobefoot ♦ northern phalarope ♦ Phalaropus fulicarius ♦ red phalarope ♦ Sea goose ♦ Wilson's phalarope. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope Tales from a Troubled Land (reference) Naturalist Indoors: Observing the World of Nature Inside Your House (A Phalarope Book) (reference) Too Late the Phalarope (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Fish and Wildlife Service Boat PHALAROPE II.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Northern Phalarope or Red-necked Phalarope Chick.Credit: Alaska Image Library.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Phalarope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Phalarope" is used about 14 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 (singular)	92.86%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	7.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Expressions using "phalarope": grey phalarope ♦ northern phalarope ♦ red phalarope ♦ Wilson's phalarope. 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.

Language		Translations for "phalarope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Wilsons svoemmesneppe (Wilson's phalarope), thorshane (grey phalarope), odinshane (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope). (various references)

Dutch		Wilson's franjepoot (Wilson's phalarope), rosse franjepoot (grey phalarope), grauwe franjepoot (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope). (various references)

French		phalarope roux (red phalarope), phalarope de Wilson (Wilson's phalarope), phalarope à bec large (grey phalarope), phalarope à bec étroit (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope). (various references)

German		plattschnäbliger Wassertreter (grey phalarope), Wilsons Wassertreter (Wilson's phalarope), Thorshühnchen (grey phalarope), schmalschnäbliger Wassertreter (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope), Odinshühnchen (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope). (various references)

Greek		σταχτοκολυμπότρυγγας (grey phalarope), αμερικανικός κολυμπότρυγγας (Wilson's phalarope). (various references)

Italian		falaropo beccosottile (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope), falaropo beccolargo (grey phalarope). (various references)

Manx		ushag ny Sheltyn (red-necked phalarope). (various references)

Pig Latin		alaropephay

Portuguese		falaropo-de-bico-grosso (grey phalarope), falaropo-de-bico-fino (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope), falaropo de Wilson (Wilson's phalarope). (various references)

Russian		плавунчик. (various references)

Spanish		falaropo picogrueso (grey phalarope), falaropo picofino (red-necked phalarope, Usa: northern phalarope), falaropo de Wilson (Wilson's phalarope). (various references)

Swedish		simsnäppa. (various references)

Turkish		kum kuşu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Phalaropus fulicarius, Phalaropus lobatus, Phalaropus tricolor, RM:rivarel curt, RM:rivarel fin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "phalarope": phalaropes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Phalarope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panatrope, phallarope. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "phalarope" (pronounced 'Phal"a*rope'): Agrope, Boltrope, Breastrope, Chromatrope, Footrope, lycanthrope, Manrope, misanthrope, Philanthrope, Platetrope, Rheotrope, Sematrope, towrope, trope, Zoetrope. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-o-p-p-r"
	-2 letters: apparel, ephoral.
	-3 letters: appeal, appear, areola, earlap, hopper, hopple, lapper, lopper, paraph, parole, poplar, propel, raphae, rappel.
	-4 letters: aleph, aloha, alpha, appal, appel, apple, areal, ephor, haler, haole, hoper, horal, lahar, loper, opera, palea, paler, papal, paper, parae, pareo, parle, parol, pearl, pepla, polar, poler, prole, ralph, raphe.
	-5 letters: aero, alae, alar, aloe, aper.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-l-o-p-p-r"
	+1 letter: phalaropes.
	+2 letters: paleography.
	+3 letters: approachable, paleographer, paleographic.
	+4 letters: blepharoplast, blepharospasm, paleographers, paleographies, pharmacopeial, planographies, prosencephala.
	+5 letters: apocryphalness, archiepiscopal, blepharoplasts, blepharoplasty, blepharospasms, encephalograph, inapproachable, paleogeography, paleographical, petrographical, pharmacopoeial, polarographies, unapproachable.
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