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Clavichord

Definition: Clavichord

Clavichord

Noun

1. An early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound.

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

Date "clavichord" was first used: 1457. (references)


Crosswords: Clavichord

English words defined with "clavichord": ClarichordManichordon. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Clavichord

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cembalo- und Clavichordbau : Bibliographie 1830-1985 = Harpsichord and clavichord construction : bibliography 1830-1985 (reference)

  • Clavichord Pieces II (reference)

  • Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, Volume 3: The Harpsichord and Clavichord (reference)

  • Harpsichord & Clavichord Music of the Twentieth Century (reference)

  • Interpretation of 16th century Iberian music on the clavichord (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Clavichord

Illustrations:
Clavichord

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Usage Frequency: Clavichord

"Clavichord" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clavichord" is used about 13 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 (singular)100%1397,576

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

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Expression: Clavichord

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "clavichord": post-clavichord.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clavichord

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

clavichord

24

clavichord plan

2

clavichord kit

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

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Modern Translation: Clavichord

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

Arabic 

  

‏موترة المفاتيح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

клавикорд. (various references)

   

Czech

  

hudební nástroj (clavecin, clavier, dulcimer, ukulele). (various references)

   

French

  

clavichorde. (various references)

   

German

  

klavichord. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλειδοκύμβαλο (piano, pianoforte), είδοσ παλαιού πιάνου (harpsichord, spinet). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

klavikord (clavier). (various references)

   

Italian

  

clavicordo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avichordclay

   

Portuguese

  

clavicórdio. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

клавикорды. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

klavikord. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clavicordio (harpsichord). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klavikord. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

klavsen (cembalo). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

клавікорди. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Clavichord

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

clavis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clavichord

Derivations

Words beginning with "clavichord": clavichordist, clavichordists, clavichords. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clavichord" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clavicord. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Clavichord"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "clavichord" (pronounced kla"vukô'rd)
5-u k ô' r dharpsichord, notochord.
4-k ô' r dconcord.
3-ô' r daboveboard, baseboard, billboard, blackboard, broadsword, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dartboard, dashboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, keyboard, landlord, linerboard, mopboard, onboard, outboard, overboard, overlord, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, underinsured, wallboard, warlord, washboard.

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Anagrams: Clavichord

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-h-i-l-o-r-v"

-2 letters: clochard.

-3 letters: caloric, chalcid, chloric, chlorid, chordal, chorial, cochair, cordial, vocalic.

-4 letters: accord, archil, calico, caroch, caroli, chador, chadri, chiral, choral, choric, hairdo, haloid, havior, holard, lochia, lorica, orchid, orchil, rhodic.

-5 letters: acold, acrid, ahold, alcid, aroid, avoid, caird, carol, cavil, chair, chard, chiao, chico, child, chiro, choir, chord, circa, clach, claro, clavi, coach.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-h-i-l-o-r-v"
 

+1 letter: clavichords.

 

+3 letters: clavichordist.

 

+4 letters: clavichordists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Clavichord


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

43 6C 61 76 69 63 68 6F 72 64

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)

01000011 01101100 01100001 01110110 01101001 01100011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#97 &#118 &#105 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0061 0076 0069 0063 0068 006F 0072 0064

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

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

37786788756974818470

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Clavichord"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Czech

slovník, definice, překlad‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, tradução‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättning‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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