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"CURLERS" is a plural of: curler. |
Date "CURLERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Crosswords: CURLERS |
| English words defined with "CURLERS": crimper, curler ♦ hair curler ♦ roller. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CURLERS": dispensary attendant ♦ SUPPLY CLERK. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Curlers (1955) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Keep medication out of the eyes and away from heat sources such as hair dryers, electric curlers, cigarettes, or open flames. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CURLERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "CURLERS" is used about 80 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 (plural) | 93.75% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CURLERS": put in curlers. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CURLERS": hair-curlers, rag-curlers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CURLERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Lockenwickeln, Lockenwickel (curler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urlerscay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CURLERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Corlears, furlers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CURLERS" (pronounced ker"lerz) |
| 3 | -l er z | anglers, antlers, assemblers, babblers, bachelors, bestsellers, binoculars, boilers, booksellers, bottlers, bowlers, broilers, bunglers, burglars, butlers, callers, caterpillars, cellars, chancellors, chroniclers, circulars, cobblers, collars, colors, compilers, controllers, coolers, councilors, counsellors, counselors, couplers, cullers, dealers, discolors, Distillers, dollars, drillers, dwellers, embezzlers, feelers, fellers, fiddlers, filers, fillers, gamblers, gillers, gobblers, guzzlers, handlers, haulers, healers, hecklers, hollers, hustlers, installers, irregulars, jailers, jewelers, jewellers, jugglers, killers, levelers, mailers, Millers, mufflers, Oilers, painkillers, panhandlers, parlors, particulars, peddlers, petrodollars, pillars, preschoolers, propellers, ramblers, recyclers, regulars, resellers, retailers, revelers, rollers, rulers, rustlers, sailors, samplers, schedulers, scholars, scribblers, sellers, settlers, shufflers, smugglers, spellers, spillers, spoilers, sprinklers, Staplers, storytellers, stragglers, strollers, swindlers, tailors, tellers, temblors, templars, thrillers, toddlers, trailers, travelers, travellers, trawlers, tumblers, warblers, watercolors, whalers, Wheelers, whistlers, wholesalers, willers, wranglers, wrestlers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: curers, curler, curser, lucres, lurers, recurs, rulers, ulcers. | |
-2 letters: clues, cruel, cruse, curer, cures, curls, currs, curse, ecrus, luces, lucre, lurer, lures, recur, ruers, ruler, rules, sucre, surer, ulcer. | |
-3 letters: cels, clue, crus, cues, cure, curl, curr, curs, ecru, ecus, errs, luce, lues, lure, recs, ruer, rues, rule, ruse, slue, slur, suer, sure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: corulers, crullers, curdlers, lurchers, scurrile. | |
+2 letters: carrousel, colourers, curricles, lecturers, trucklers. | |
+3 letters: carrousels, curlpapers, curtailers, fluorescer, lacquerers, mercurials, operculars, relacquers, ridiculers, versicular. | |
+4 letters: cartularies, circularise, colporteurs, crepuscular, fluorescers, foreclosure, irrecusable, irrecusably, procedurals, recursively, relicensure, resourceful, secularizer, sericulture, terricolous, tuberculars, ultrasecret, unscrambler, vernaculars. | |
+5 letters: agricultures, chartularies, circularised, circularises, circularizes, circularness, cloudberries, foreclosures, intercluster, lacquerwares, lacquerworks, maricultures, precariously, recirculates, relicensures, relubricates, renovascular, scurrilities, secularizers, semicircular, sericultural, sericultures, superciliary, supercluster, surrealistic, ultraprecise, unscramblers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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