CLANKED

Definition: CLANKED

CLANKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Clank

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CLANKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	They clanked up the highway and rolled away, their dim lights glancing along the road.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"CLANKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "CLANKED" is used about 18 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	88.89%	16	87,710
Lexical Verb (past participle)	11.11%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Language		Translations for "CLANKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		klirrte (chinked, clashed, jingled), geklirrt. (various references)

Pig Latin		ankedclay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"CLANKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clanced, clankier, clence, Klenke. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-n"
	-1 letter: ankled, calked, candle, lacked, lanced.
	-2 letters: acned, ankle, caked, caned, clade, clank, clean, dance, decal, eland, knead, laced, laden, laked, lance, naked, naled.
	-3 letters: aced, acne, alec, cade, cake, calk, cane, clad, clan, dace, dale, dank, deal, dean, deck, elan, kale, kane, lace, lack, lade, lake, land, lane, lank, lead, leak, lean, lend.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-n"
	+1 letter: crankled.
	+2 letters: blackened, slackened, uncloaked.
	+3 letters: candlewick, landlocked, unshackled.
	+4 letters: acknowledge, backslidden, blackhander, candlestick, candlewicks, deadlocking, knucklehead, stickhandle.
	+5 letters: acknowledged, acknowledges, backhandedly, backpedaling, blackhanders, candlesticks, knuckleheads, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles.
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