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— English words —

• awk adj. (Obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
• awk adj. (Obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
• awk adj. (Obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
• awk adj. (US slang, of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.
• awk adv. (Obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.
• awk prop.n. (Computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.

— English words, defined in French —

• awk adj. (Désuet) Étrange.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Panne.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Pervers.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Faux ou rare.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Sinistre.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Extrémité de tige.
• awk adj. (Désuet) Maladroit.
• awk adv. (Désuet) Perversement, dans le mauvais sens.
• awk n.prop. (Informatique) Commande Unix.
• awk n.prop. (Par extension) Langage de programmation fourni par l’interface awk.
• awk n. (Informatique) Script Unix en langage awk.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• awk agg. (Obsoleto) non conforme.
• awk agg. Imbarazzante.

38 English words from 6 English definitions

awkward clumsy command command␣line command␣line␣interface commonly Computing dexterous dialect interface in␣the␣wrong itself language line manners not Obsolete Odd of␣a order or␣not out out␣of out␣of␣order performance perverse Perversely scripting scripting␣language sinister situation slang the uncomfortable Unix used way wrong

15 English words from 13 foreign definitions

awk dans extension Faux interface Maladroit non Panne par rare Script sens Sinistre tige Unix

15 foreign words from 13 foreign definitions

Commande conforme Désuet Étrange Extrémité fourni Imbarazzante Informatique langage mauvais Obsoleto Par␣extension Pervers Perversement programmation

19 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Awka awky awkaf awkly awkness awkward awkwards awkweird awkwarder awkwardly awkward␣age awkwardest awkwardish awkwardness Awkward␣Bench awkward␣squad awkwardnesses awkward␣squads awkwardnessful

433 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Bawku cawks cawky dawks gawks gawky Hawke hawks Hawks hawky lawks mawks mawky pawks pawky rawks rawky Sawka tawks cawker chawki crawks dawked Dawkes Dawkin dhawks Fawkes gawked gawker gawkin' hawked Hawken hawker Hawker Hawkes hawkey Hawkey hawkie Hawkin I-HAWKs mawkin quawks rawked Sawkas tawked Wawken cawkers chawkie chawkis crawked +383 words

136 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bawk cawk dawk gawk hawk Hawk lawk mawk pawk rawk tawk yawk crawk dhawk drawk I-HAWK N'Yawk quawk fohawk mohawk Mohawk scrawk squawk brohawk dorhawk flyhawk frohawk goshawk gunhawk hen-hawk jashawk jayhawk Jayhawk New␣Yawk Noo␣Yawk seahawk war␣hawk ballhawk ball␣hawk dorrhawk duck-hawk duck␣hawk duskhawk fauxhawk fishhawk fish-hawk fish␣hawk make-hawk mopehawk newshawk +86 words

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Kwa

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

kaw Kaw Kwa

50 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Awka awky awsk bawk cawk dawk gawk hawk Hawk kawa Kawa Kawi kawn kaws Kaws Khaw knaw kwai Kwaj Kwak kwan Kwan kyaw Kyaw lawk mawk okwa pawk rawk skaw SWAK tawk wack Wack waka Waka wake Wake wakf walk Walk WalK wank wark Wark wauk weak weka woak yawk

18 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Ak AK aw Aw ka KA ka- wa Wa WA Wa. W.A. W.␣A. wk /wk wk. /wk. w**k

40 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

aak ack ACK afk AFK aik AJK AKK alk ALK alk- alk. AMK AOK A-OK ark Ark Ark. ask Ask ASK ATK auk Awa AWB AWD awe Awe AWG awl AWL awm awn AWP aws AWS AWT aww FWK hwk

9 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

Ak AK aw Aw wk /wk wk. /wk. w**k

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

awsk

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