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Definition: Coattail |
CoattailNoun1. The loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coattail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| 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 |
coattail rider | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coattail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Rockschoß. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oattailcay.(various references) | |
Russian | фалда. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coattail": coattails. (additional references) | |
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"Coattail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coatail, coatal, Covatta, cuttail. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coattail" (pronounced kō"ttā'l) |
| 4 | -t t ā' l | whitetail. |
| 3 | -t ā' l | cocktail, dovetail, fantail, folktale, foxtail, horsetail, telltale, ponytail, retail. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tailcoat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cattail, cattalo. | |
-2 letters: catalo, citola, coital. | |
-3 letters: atilt, attic, coala, coati, cotta, lotic, octal, tacit, tical, total. | |
-4 letters: acta, alit, alto, calo, ciao, clit, clot, coal, coat, coil, cola, colt, iota, laic, lati, loca, loci, lota, loti, otic, taco, tact, tail, tala, talc, tali, tilt, toil, toit, tola. | |
-5 letters: aal, act, ail, ait, ala, alt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: coattails, lactation, tailcoats. | |
+2 letters: catabolite, citational, lactations, tailcoated, tractional. | |
+3 letters: acetylation, altercation, articulator, artiodactyl, catabolites, catholicate, dictatorial, facilitator, lactational. | |
+4 letters: acetylations, altercations, amitotically, anecdotalist, apocalyptist, articulation, articulators, articulatory, artiodactyls, atheoretical, auscultation, autocratical, cantillation, capitulation, catholicates, facilitation, facilitators, facilitatory, intercoastal, placentation, spectatorial, tautological, theocratical, timocratical. | |
+5 letters: abstractional, acculturation, actualization, anecdotalists, anticoagulant, antimetabolic, antipolitical, antisocialist, apocalyptists, articulations, astronautical, atomistically, auscultations, autocatalysis, autocatalytic, automatically, cantillations, capitulations, cartelization, catatonically, collaterality, computational, connaturality, connotational, contractional, dictatorially, expectational, facilitations, fluctuational, incantational, interactional, intercalation, isostatically, italicization, matriculation, metafictional, nationalistic, noncapitalist, nontheatrical, patriotically, placentations, rationalistic, sacerdotalist, scholasticate, teratological, transactional, translocating, translocation, ultracautious, ultraromantic, vocationalist. | |
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