Accoutrement

Definition: Accoutrement

Accoutrement

Noun

1. Clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing.

Date "accoutrement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Accoutrement

Synonyms: accessory (n), accouterment (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Accoutrement

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

French (costume, regalia, rig out).

Domain	Title
Books	Accoutrement plates, North and South, 1861-1865 : an authoritative reference with comparative values (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Accoutrement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accoutrement" is used about 6 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)	100%	6	143,867

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.

Language		Translations for "accoutrement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		akkomodasie (accoutrements, equipment), uitrusting (accoutrements, equipment). (various references)

Chinese		配件 (accouterment, Accouterments, Accoutrements, Appendage). (various references)

Dutch		accommodatie (accommodation, accoutrements, equipment), uitrustingsstuk (accoutrements, equipment), uitrusting (accoutrements, appliance, collective facilities, community equipment, community facilities, equipment, fitting out, implementation, implementation of a system, municipal facilities, outfit, outfitting, plant, public facilities, tackle), inrichting (accommodation, accoutrements, adjustment, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, contrivance, device, equipment, establishment, institute, mechanism, plant, set, tackle). (various references)

German		Ausstattung (allocation, allowance, appointments, bottle dressing, configuration, décor, decorat, dowry, endowment, equipment, facilities, fitments, fittings, fixtures, furnishing, furniture, get up, get-up, harness, layout, presentation, production, provisions, vesting). (various references)

Hungarian		mez (accoutrements, dress, jersey, shirt, strip), lovagi felszerelés (accoutrements), díszes lószerszám (accoutrements, trapping, trappings), cicoma (accoutrements, finery, frippery, furbelow, furbelows, gaud, get-up), alkalmi öltözék (accoutrements). (various references)

Italian		equipaggiamento (accouterment, EQPT, equipment, fitting, fitting out, gear, kit, outfit), bardatura (accouterment, caparison, harness, harness trappings, trappings). (various references)

Korean		군장 (accouterment, Accouterments, Accoutrements). (various references)

Papiamen		ekipahe (accoutrements, baggage, equipment, luggage). (various references)

Pig Latin		accoutrementay.(various references)

Portuguese		equipamento (accoutrements, appliance, appointments, environment, equipment, fig, fitter, furniture industry, gear, habiliment, hardware, maternal, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, rig, stock in trade, tackle). (various references)

Romanian		haine (apparel, clothes, clothing, creature comforts, dress, fig, habiliment, raiment, rigging, suit, wear), echipare (equipage, equipping, fit out, fitting out, rigging), echipament (accoutrements, appointment, equipage, equipment, fig, furnishings, furniture, harness, kit, outfit, stock in trade, tool), îmbrãcare (dressing, investment), îmbrãcãminte (attire, carpet, clothes, clothing, dress, fig, garb, garment, gear, plank, rig, toggery, toilet, wear). (various references)

Russian		снаряжение (accouterment, duffel, equipment, fit out, fit-out, fixing, fixings, kit, munition, outfit, refit, rig, rigging). (various references)

Swedish		utrustning (accoutrements, equipage, equipment, fit out, fitting out, fixings, furnishing, furniture, issue, kit, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, rig, tackle). (various references)

Turkish		teçhizat (accoutrements, appointments, arming, equipage, equipment, fitment, fittings, fixings, gear, hardware, rig), donanım (accoutrements, appointments, equipage, equipment, furnishing, gear, hardware, implement, rig, rigging, tackle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ornamentum. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	acostrer. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "accoutrement": accoutrements. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Accoutrement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accotrement, accounterment, accountrement, accoutraments, accoutriments, accroutrements, accutrement, accutrements, acoutrament, acoutrement, acoutrements, acoutriments, eccoutrement. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: accouterment.
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-m-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: accruement, counteract.
	-3 letters: contactee, mucronate, octameter, recontact, utterance.
	-4 letters: accentor, accouter, accoutre, carotene, cocreate, concrete, contract, courante, eructate, numerate, outeaten, outrance, reaccent, routeman, routemen, tautomer, trecento, truncate, turncoat, uncreate.
	-5 letters: account, accrete, acetone, automen, cementa, centare, centaur, centrum, cerumen, coenact, coenure, coerect, concert, contact, corneae, cornute, counter, courant, cremate, crenate, cuneate, curette, curtate, enactor, enamour, entreat, menacer, morceau, mounter, neuroma, nutmeat, ocreate, outearn, outrace, outrate, ratteen, recount, reenact, remount, romance, romaunt, tantrum, taunter, ternate, toccate, tomenta, tonearm, torment, trounce, uncrate.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-m-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: accouterments, accoutrements.
	+4 letters: intercommunicate.
	+5 letters: intercommunicated, intercommunicates.
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