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Definition: COSIER |
COSIERNoun1. A tailor who botches his work. |
Date "COSIER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Crosswords: COSIER |
| English words defined with "COSIER": Cozier. (references) |
| "COSIER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "COSIER" is used about 21 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 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COSIER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cosier | Last name | 100 | 86,484 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "COSIER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "较'适 (Cozier). (various references) | ||||
German | gemütlicher (cozier). (various references) | ||||
Korean | " 아늑한 (Cozier, Snugger). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osiercay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "COSIER" (pronounced 'Co"sier'): Crosier, Hoosier, hosier. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ceros, cires, coirs, cores, corse, cosie, cries, osier, rices, score. | |
-2 letters: cero, cire, coir, core, cors, cris, eros, ices, ires, orcs, ores, recs, reis, rice, rise, rocs, roes, rose, sice, sire, sore, sori. | |
-3 letters: cis, cor, cos, ers, ice, ire, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, rei, res, roc, roe, sec, sei, ser. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ciceros, cirrose, coheirs, coilers, coiners, copiers, corbies, corries, cowries, cronies, crosier, erotics, heroics, orceins, orrices, recoils, recoins, scoriae, voicers. | |
+2 letters: aerobics, bicornes, bisector, bricoles, brioches, calories, carioles, ceorlish, cheerios, choosier, chorines, cicorees, citreous, cloister, codrives, coinfers, coinsure, cointers, coistrel, colliers, comprise, conciser, conifers, consider, conspire, corbeils, cordites, coreigns, corkiest, cornices, corniest, corodies, cortices, cosigner, costlier, coteries, cottiers, couriers, cowrites, creolise, croceins, croppies, crosiers, crosstie, crowdies, croziers, discover, divorces, esoteric, evictors, excitors, exorcise, exorcism, exorcist, forcipes, forensic, fornices, georgics, idocrase, incloser, incomers, incorpse, isochore, isomeric, licensor, microbes, mortices, necrosis, noticers, officers, orchises, orifices, outcries, oversick, percoids, precious, recision, recopies, rejoices, resorcin, revoices, rockiest, scariose, scenario, scleroid, sermonic, soricine, stockier, varicose, viceroys, vortices. | |
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