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Definition: Tassel |
TasselNoun1. Adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tassel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Simple bundle of textile threads folded or bound with the ends hanging loose. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Core covered with textile threads with the ends of these threads sometimes left hanging. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Multilingual Slang | Polish (kutas ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Tassel, knot; shoulder knot, apaulette, epaulet, aigulet, frog; star, rosette, bow; feather, plume, pompom, panache, aigrette. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tassel |
| English words defined with "tassel": Cordelle ♦ Fez ♦ mortarboard ♦ ski cap, stocking cap, sword knot ♦ tarboosh, Tas, tassel flower, tassel hyacinth, Tasseling, Tasselling, toboggan cap, Tossel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tassel": Friar Tuck ♦ Poor Tassel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tassel": Bobbin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Haven't seen you in a few millennia. Give me some tassel! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Close-up of corn tassel.Credit: USDA. |
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| "Tassel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Tassel" is used about 27 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tassel": tassel flower ♦ tassel hyacinth. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tassel": tassel-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tassel | 307 |
graduation tassel | 107 |
tassel and trim | 40 |
doll tassel | 31 |
book mark tassel | 27 |
fringe with tassel | 24 |
make tassel | 19 |
making tassel | 18 |
beaded tassel | 16 |
program tassel | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tassel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tufëz (cluster, fascicle, fascicule, quiff, wisp), thekë (awn, fringe, pile, stamen), thek (awn, Brown, fall in flakes, fringe, Pierce, pile, put on speed, stamen, strike, toast), xhufkë (aigrette, crest, plume, pompon, shag, thrum, topknot, toupee, tuft). (various references) | |
Arabic | زين بشرابة, شرابة الذرة, شرابة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | украсявам с пискюли, коса (floss, hair, scythe, silk), махам косата на царевица, пискюл (fringe, pendant, pompom, pompon, thrum, tuft). (various references) | |
Chinese | 繸 , 繐 (fine and loose cloth), 缨子, 穗飾 , ' . (various references) | |
Czech | střapec (tuft), bambulka. (various references) | |
Danish | kvast til gardinsnore, kvast (tuft), dusk. (various references) | |
Dutch | versiering(kwastje) (tuft), kwastje, kwast (attitudinizer, brush, dandy, dude, enclosed knot, fop, gnarl, knot, node, occluded knot, paintbrush, poseur), eikel (acorn, glans). (various references) | |
Farsi | منگوله زدن به , منگوله (Bob, Tuft), چنبره (Cushion, Torque), کاکل ذرت , اویززدن , ریشه (Germ, Pedigree, Stem, Stub, Theme). (various references) | |
Finnish | tupsu (tuft). (various references) | |
French | houppe, gland. (various references) | |
German | troddel (pompom), quaste (bristles, brush, tassels, tuft), Quast (hempen swab, paintbrush). (various references) | |
Greek | κόμπος σε σχήμα βαλανιδιού, βάλανος για κορδόνι, φιογγάκι (tuft), θύσανοσ (tuft), θύσανος (barber chair, barber's chair, cirrus, tombstone, tuft). (various references) | |
Hebrew | '"יל (festoon, fringe, strand, tuft), ציצית (forelock, frill, fringe), ציצ" (blossom, fringe, pompon, tuft). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rojt (bobble, bunch, frazzle, fringe, thrum, tuft), bojt (bunch, fringe, tuft). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rumbai, jumbai, gunjai (tuft), gombyok (fringe). (various references) | |
Italian | nappa (nappa, soft leather). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風帯 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふうたい (appearance, dress, look, packing). (various references) | |
Korean | ||
Manx | fooag (tab, thrum), babban (babe, baby, doll, lobe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asseltay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | borla (beret, pomposity, tuft). (various references) | |
Romanian | moţ (Bob, ear, forelock, kiss-me-quick, topknot, tuft), ciucure (fringe, pompon, Ravel, tuft), canaf. (various references) | |
Russian | кисточка. (various references) | |
Scottish | mab (a tassel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kićanka (aiglet, pompon). (various references) | |
Spanish | borla (ball, Bob, bobble, pompon, puff, tuft). (various references) | |
Swedish | tofs (crest, tuft, wisp). (various references) | |
Thai | พู่, สิ่งที่เหมือนพู่, ลอกฝอยข้าวโพ"ออก, ประ"ับพู่. (various references) | |
Turkish | püsküllerle süslemek, püsküllerini yolmak, püskülleşmek, püskül (beard, coma, fringe, tag, thrum, tuft). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gotaz. (various references) | |
Ukranian | китичка, закладка (bookmark). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quả tua, len ở mũ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | taxillus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | tassel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tassel": tasseled, tasseling, tasselled, tasselling, tassels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tassel": detassel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tassel": detasseled, detasseling, detasselled, detasselling, detassels. (additional references) | |
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"Tassel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atassut, Nassfeld, tase, taskl, Tassilo, Tassis, tassit, tassle, tassled, tassles, tasso, tastle, Taszar, tausel, taussel, tazze, Tesol, tessel, tessell, tesser, tissle, tosseo, tossle, Tssi, tusel, tussel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tassel" (pronounced ta"sul) |
| 4 | -a" s u l | brasil, Castle, facile, gracile, Hassel, hassle, Passel, vassal. |
| 3 | -s u l | antimissile, apostle, Axel, axle, basal, bristle, bustle, cancel, capsule, colossal, consul, council, counsel, diesel, dismissal, dispersal, docile, dorsal, epistle, fissile, fossil, gristle, Hansel, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, pencil, pixel, Proconsul, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, stencil, Tattersall, tensile, Tercel, Thistle, tinsel, tonsil, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, unsell, utensil, vessel, whistle, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: leasts, slates, stales, steals, teslas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: asset, easts, lases, lasts, least, sales, salts, sates, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, tasse, teals, tesla. | |
-2 letters: ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, leas, less, lest, lets, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, slat, tael, tale, tass, teal, teas, tela, tels. | |
-3 letters: ale, als, alt, ass, ate, eat, els, ess, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: artless, atlases, castles, desalts, falsest, fatless, haslets, hatless, lasters, latests, lysates, matless, pastels, sallets, salters, saltest, salties, salutes, samlets, sheltas, slaters, solates, stables, stalest, staples, stellas, taluses, tassels, taxless, teasels, vestals. | |
+2 letters: apostles, astilbes, basaltes, bastiles, bathless, beatless, blasters, blasties, celestas, coatless, cutlases, dateless, detassel, elastase, elastics, elastins, flaskets, flatness, flatuses, gateless, gestalts, haltless, harslets, heatless, heliasts, isolates, lactases, lactoses, lamsters, lateness, maltases, maltoses, mastless, mateless, meatless, nailsets, nathless, pastless, pathless, peltasts, persalts, plasters, psalters, pulsates, realists, reslates, salients, salterns, saltiers, saltiest, saltines, saltires, saltless, saltness, saluters, satchels, scaliest, scarlets, sealants, seatless, shaliest, shoalest, skatoles, slackest, slatches, slathers, slatiest, smallest, solvates, spatzles, stabiles, stablers, stablest, staddles, stalkers, stammels, staplers, starless, starlets, startles, stealers, stealths, sublates, sulfates, tackless, tactless, tailless, tallises, tallness, tameless, tapeless, tasseled, tearless, thawless, toadless, tramless, warstles, wartless, wastrels, wattless, wrastles. | |
+3 letters: absolutes, adultness, alcahests, alertness, alienists, alkahests, almagests, arbalests, arbelests, artlessly, assaulted, assaulter, australes, autolyses, ballsiest, balusters, bastilles, bestowals, blastemas, blastiest, cassoulet, catalases, catalyses, classiest, classmate, cutlasses, dauntless, deathless, desalters, desolates, detassels, diastoles, dismalest, elastases, epiblasts, escalates, eschalots, essential, establish, eyestalks, faithless, falsettos, falsities, faultless, festivals, flashiest, glassiest, gustables, halitoses, halituses, heartless, heathless, idealists, insolates, insulates, klatsches, lambastes, lamisters, lassitude, lavishest, leastways, leastwise, legalists, lithiases, loathness, lodestars, loveseats, lustrates, maltsters, matchless, measliest, medalists, melanists, metalises, metalists, misalters, muscatels, natheless, obstacles, oleasters, osculates, oversalts, palestras, panelists, pastelist, pastilles, pedestals, pilasters, plaisters, plashiest, pleatless, polestars, psaltries, resalutes, restorals, saleratus, salivates, sallowest, saltboxes, saltiness, seatbelts, selenates, semestral, sensately, serialist, shetlands, shmaltzes, shoaliest, sibilates, silicates, simulates, slaggiest, slangiest, slantwise, slatterns, sleaziest, smaltines, smaltites, snarliest, sodalites, spaetzles, splatters, spoliates, sprattles, stagefuls, stainless, staleness, stalkiest, stalkless, stampless, stapelias, startlers, stateless, staumrels, stealages, stealings, storables, straddles, straggles, strangles, strapless, sufflates, sulfatase, sulphates, sultaness, taintless, talkfests, talkiness, tasseling, tasselled, tasteless, teaselers, telecasts, thalluses, thankless, tieclasps, totalises, traceless, trackless, trailless, treadless, vitalises, warstlers, wastelots, waterless. | |
+4 letters: absolutest, abstrusely, accentless, actionless, adulteress, aerialists, affectless, afflatuses, alabasters, alchemists, allergists, anglesites, artfulness, assaulters, assaultive, assertedly, assimilate, assoilment, astrolabes, basketfuls, basketsful, beanstalks, beastliest, bisulfates, blastments, breathless, brutalises, cartelises, cassoulets, castellans, casualties, celestials, classmates, clematises, coastlines, constables, consulates, cowlstaves, desolaters, desolators, detasseled, dialysates, disentails, dislocates, dismantles, drysalters, easterlies, ectoplasms, elastomers, elatedness, enamelists, escalators, essentials, estradiols, fatherless, fathomless, faultiness, feudalists, fishplates, flagstaves, flagstones, flashtubes, flatfishes, flatnesses, flatwashes, forestalls, galactoses, gallstones, gestaltist, ghastliest, gladsomest, gladstones, hailstones, hairstyles, headstalls, heliostats, herbalists, horsetails, installers, interclass, italicises, jacketless, jacksmelts, langoustes, lanosities, larcenists, lassitudes, latenesses, leafstalks, legislates, loadstones, maelstroms, marlstones, medallists, mentalisms, mentalists, mesnalties, mestranols, methylases, mislocates, misrelates, mortarless, nanoteslas, nasalities, nautiluses, oblateness, oscillates, osteoblast, osteoclast, outclassed, outclasses, palaestras, palimpsest, palletises, paltriness, parentless, pastelists, pastellist, pastorales, periplasts, plasterers, plateglass, platypuses, pliantness, postulates, psalteries, reinstalls, replasters, resultants, safelights, saintliest, salacities, salinities, salometers, saltbushes, saltnesses, saltpeters, saltshaker, saprolites, satellites, scapolites, scatheless, schmaltzes, scrawliest, sectionals, secularist, semestrial, semimetals, semipostal, sensualist, sensuality, serialists, shallowest, shapeliest, shavetails, slaughters, slipstream, socialites, sodalities, soleplates, solitaires, solitaries, somersault, spangliest, sparkliest, specialest, specialist, spectacles, speculates, splashiest, sporulates, sprawliest, squalidest, squalliest, stabilizes, stableness, stablished, stablishes, stairwells, stalemates, stateliest, steamrolls, steelheads, steelyards, sterilants, stimulates, stipulates, stonewalls, straddlers, stragglers, stranglers, streamlets, stylobates, subalterns, sublimates, sulfatases, sulfonates, sultanates, surrealist, sylvanites, tactlessly, tailslides, talentless, tallnesses, tantalises, tantaluses, tasselling, telophases, tenantless, tessellate, threadless, timescales, transaxles, translates, traversals, trehaloses, unstablest, verbalists, waistlines, wastelands, welfarists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 73 73 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ... ... . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a s s e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0073 0073 0065 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546785857178 |
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