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Cnut

Definition: Cnut

Cnut

Noun

1. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II Canute became King of all of England (994-1035).

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

"Cnut" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a knot".

"Cnut" is a common misspelling or typo for: cut, knot, nut.


Synonyms: Cnut

Synonyms: Canute (n), Canute the Great (n), Knut (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cnut

Non-English Usage: "Cnut" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (knout, whip).

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Modern Usage: Cnut

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'll be back, Professor Cnut, you nasty little misprint (Believe Nothing; writing credit: Maurice Gran; Laurence Marks)

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

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Usage Frequency: Cnut

"Cnut" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.85% of the time. "Cnut" is used about 217 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)95.85%20821,075
Noun (singular)4.15%9117,287
                    Total100.00%217N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Cnut

"Cnut" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a knot".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Cnut."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
CnutMaleN/AKnut
KnudMaleDanishKnut
CanuteMaleEnglishKnut
KnuteMaleNorwegianKnut
KnutMaleScandinavianN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cnut

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

cnut

3

clothing.com cnut

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

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Anagrams: Cnut

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-n-t-u"

-1 letter: cut, nut, tun.

-2 letters: nu, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-n-t-u"
 

+1 letter: centu, count, cutin, tunic, uncut.

 

+2 letters: cantus, centum, chaunt, cobnut, counts, county, cutins, incult, induct, lucent, nautch, toucan, tuchun, tunica, tunics, uncute, untack, untuck.

 

+3 letters: account, adjunct, auction, canthus, caution, centaur, centrum, centums, century, chaunts, chunter, chuting, chutnee, chutney, cobnuts, coconut, conatus, conduct, conduit, confute, consult, contour, contuse, cornute, cornuto, cothurn, counted, counter, country, courant, crouton, cuneate, currant, current, curtain, cutbank, cutdown, cutline, cutting, defunct, ducting, dunitic, encrust, functor, incrust, inducts, linecut, linocut, locknut, lunatic, muntjac, noctuid, noctule, nocturn, nutcase, nutpick, quantic, quintic, recount, ruction, sanctum, staunch, suction, toucans, trounce, truancy, trucing, tuchuns, tucking, tunicae, tunicle, unacted, uncouth, uncrate, unction, unhitch, unlatch, unstack, unstick, unstuck, untacks, unteach, untucks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cnut


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

43 6E 75 74

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 01101110 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#110 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006E 0075 0074

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

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

37808786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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