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Definition: Corps |
CorpsNoun1. An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions. 2. A body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corps" was first used: sometime around 1275. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A big bunch of fighters. (Dist. bet. cores found in apples and corps found in arms). Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Military | See army corps. (references) |
Military & Defense | A formation larger than a division but smaller than an army or army group. It usually consists of two or more divisions together with supporting arms and services. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the United States and other armies, it refers to a unit of approximately 30,000 troops, composed of two or more divisionss, and typically commanded by a lieutenant general.
As of 2003, the United States Army has four corps. The structure of a corps is not permanent; many of the units that it commands are allocated to it as needed on an ad hoc basis. On the battlefield, the corps is the highest level of the forces that is concerned with actually fighting and winning the war. (Higher levels of command are concerned with administration rather than fighting, at least in current doctrine.) The corps provides operational direction for the forces under its command. Corps are designated by consecutive Roman numerals. The present active corps in the US Army are I Corps ("eye core"), III Corps, V Corps, and XVIII Airborne Corps; their numbers derive from four of the 30-odd corps that were formed during WWII.
In the British Army, a corps tends to be a grouping by common function (eg, the Infantry corps, the Royal Logistics Corps, Royal Corps of Signals). There is a corps headquarters for operational control of forces, and it was last deployed as the headquarters commanding land forces during the Kosovo War in 1999. Other than that, a British corps headquarters has not deployed in the field since 1945.
In Germany, German Student Corps are a unique kind of studenten corporation similar to fraternities elsewhere, proud about democracy, tolerance and the German vaterland. These corps originated in the late 18th century.
See also: corps area, United States Marine Corps, List of corps of the United States Army
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corps."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COE | English | U.S.Army Corps of Engineers | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
Consignee | Diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique, embassy; ambassador, embassador; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache. |
Cooperation | Unanimity; (assent); esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship, partisanship; concord. |
Exertion | Phrase: aide-toi le ciel t'aidera;" and still be doing, never done"; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie;" it is better to wear out than to rust out"; labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit; manu forti; ora et labora. |
Haste | Hastily, precipitately; Adjective: helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu. |
Humorist | Noun: humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark; bon diable; practical joker. |
Insanity | Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain). |
Misjudgment | Esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige. |
Rashness | Adverb: post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost; happen what may, come what may. |
Sociality | Noun: sociality, sociability, sociableness; Adjective: social intercourse; consociation; intercourse, intercommunity; consortship, companionship, comradeship; clubbism; esprit de corps. |
Store | Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have two books at my bedside, Lieutenant: the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) United States Marine Corps, sir! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Have sex in the Corps, and I'll break your neck! (G vs E; writing credit: David Burris; Janice Engel) Ton corps aussi. (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut) God was here before the Marine corps, so you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the corps! (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Corps célestes (1973) La Chute d'un corps (1973) Corps et âme (1972) Brute Corps (1972) À corps perdu (1970) | |
Song Titles | BABYFACE (performing artist: WING & A PRAYER FIFE & DRUM CORPS) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Admiral Eugene Taylor, NOAA Corps. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Typical Corps Survey Problem Illustrating the complexity of battlefield surveying. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | FAIRWEATHER moored at Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay. During Hurricane Iwa. Power knocked out to Marine Corps Base. FAIRWEATHER cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for Marine Corps families. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Pirkko O'Clock (ex-NOAA Corps officer) and tourists cavorting with the dolphins at Monkey Mia near Shark Bay. These dolphin are wild and associate with humans with no training or coercion (except food.). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | NOAA Corps Ensign Doug Krause and Seaman Surveyor Leroy Johnson on bridge wing of NOAA Ship McARTHUR. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | McARTHUR deck hand Mike Theberge and NOAA Corps Lieutenant Alex von Saunder preparing pizzas on McARTHUR Pizza Night. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | NOAA Corps Ensign Doug Krause with deck hand Mike Theberge at the Carara Biological Reserve. Credit: Small World. |  | Marine Corps officials temporarily halted flying operations of all models of the V-22, including two CV-22s, (shown here) which are being flight tested at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The officials made the move after a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed in No. |
 | U.S. Marines advance after Marine close-air fighters plaster targets ahead during fighting in Korea. Billowing smoke and flames from the small, tight target areas bear out the accuracy of the flying Leathernecks' marksmanship. (Marine Corps photo). |  | Students collect and test water samples from a small stream as part of a corps of volunteer water quality monitors in the state of Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew | A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The divisions must not be grouped under more than two army corps headquarters staffs. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was in the eighth corps, of the Grand Army which Mortier commanded, and which took Hamburg. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Among women entering the Job Corps in 1997, chlamydia rates ranged from 4 - 14% by state (20,000 entrants are screened annually). (references) | |
In Thailand, Aeromonas and Pleisiomonas have been isolated from stools of Peace Corps volunteers who had TD. A better appreciation of the importance of each of these bacteria as causative agents of TD requires a more intensive search for them, using appropriate selective isolation media or rapid diagnostic techniques. (references) | ||
All it takes to get infected is to be bitten by one infected sand fly. This is more likely to happen the more people are bitten, that is, the more time they spend outside in rural areas from dusk to dawn. Adventure travelers, Peace Corps volunteers, missionaries, ornithologists (people who study birds), other people who do research outdoors at night, and soldiers are examples of people who may have an increased risk for leishmaniasis (especially cutaneous leishmaniasis). (references) | ||
Business | The Carabinieri special corps has made impressive strides in recuperating 175,000 stolen cultural assets. (references) | |
The Labor Law mandates the establishment of labor inspection corps at all administrative levels above county government. (references) | ||
Second in priority for equipment fielding and upgrades will be the Danish contingent of the MultiNational Corps NorthEast. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bulgaria | The conscript troops of the military are integrated; however, the professional officer corps has few members of ethnic or religious minority groups. (references) |
Kazakhstan | President Nazarbayev supported a September visit by the Pope, which included meetings with the Government, diplomatic corps, leading clerics, and academia. (references) | |
Korea | Hundreds of auditors from the Tax Office, representing nearly half of the corps of auditors, spent 130 days examining the records of 23 newspapers; the audit ultimately resulted in the indictment and arrest of owners or major shareholders of three newspapers, two of which, the Chosun Ilbo and the Dong-Ah Ilbo, are the largest in the country and are viewed as among the more critical of President Kim's policies. (references) | |
Economic History | Nepal | About 84 Peace Corps volunteers work in Nepal. (references) |
Venezuela | There is no USAID or Peace Corps mission in Venezuela. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | There is a Peace Corps Administrative Office in Honiara. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | The office also provided 32,295 free legal consultations through its corps of more than 1,000 public defenders, many of whom work only part-time. (references) |
Colombia | The Executive Director of the Military Penal Justice, Corps Brigadier General Jairo Pineda, reports directly to the Minister of Defense, a civilian. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | In July CIVPOL arrested a member of the international police corps for sexual assault, and in August a CIVPOL officer stationed in Mitrovica was arrested on allegations of sexual assault. (references) | |
Minorities | Peru | Both the navy and the air force are believed widely to follow unstated policies that exclude blacks from the officer corps. (references) |
Macedonia | The proportion of ethnic Albanians in the ranks was estimated to be approximately 25 percent, but the proportion was significantly lower in the officer corps. (references) | |
Chad | Northerners, in particular members of President Deby's Zaghawa ethnic group, continued to dominate the public sector and were overrepresented in key institutions of state power, including the military officer corps, elite military units, and the presidential staff. (references) | |
Political Economy | Poland | Until its closeout in 2001, the Peace Corps program in Poland was one of the world's largest. (references) |
Guinea | There are over 100 Peace Corps volunteers working in education, health, and natural resource management throughout Guinea. (references) | |
Chad | Although the USAID office in N'djamena closed in 1995, and the Peace Corps suspended operations in April 1998, the U.S. continues modest assistance through food aid, demining, democratization and humanitarian programs. (references) | |
Women | Burma | However, women remained underrepresented in most traditional male occupations, and women continued to be barred effectively from a few professions, including the military officer corps. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Both the IDSS and the Ministry of Labor have small corps of inspectors charged with enforcing standards. (references) |
Burkina Faso | However, the Government's Labor Inspector Corps does not have sufficient resources to fulfill its duties adequately. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | The marines' battle cry, their creed, is be quick and be deadly and that is why the corps is expected to be among the first to sweep deep into Iraq. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In this mode a complete knowledge of the science and duties of this arm will be extended throughout the whole corps of artillery. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | An increase of both the corps of engineers, military and topographical, was recommended by my predecessor at the last session of Congress. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We can mobilize this talent through the formation of a National Peace Corps, enlisting the services of all those with the desire and capacity to help foreign lands meet their urgent needs for trained personnel. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I urge the House of Representatives to complete action on three programs already passed by the Senate-the Teacher Corps, rent assistance, and home rule for the District of Columbia. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Army Corps of Engineers has also undertaken studies to assess the feasibility of expanding the Bonneville Locks. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | From thousands answering Peace Corps appeals to help boost food production in Africa, to millions volunteering time, corporations adopting schools, and communities pulling together to help the neediest among us at home, we have refound our values. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | One purpose of the USA Freedom Corps will be homeland security. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Corps" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Corps" is used about 1,199 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) | 98.08% | 1,176 | 6,562 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.25% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,199 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corps": a corps perdu ♦ air corps ♦ armoured corps ♦ army corps ♦ army service corps ♦ artillery corps ♦ avoir le diable au corps ♦ cadet corps ♦ chaplain corps ♦ consular corps ♦ Corps d'arm'ee ♦ corps de ballet ♦ Corps de logis ♦ corps de reserve ♦ Corps diplomatique ♦ Corps L'egislatif ♦ corps of engineers ♦ corps of signals ♦ corps troops ♦ dental corps ♦ diplomatic corps ♦ Engineer Corps ♦ engineering corps ♦ engineers corps ♦ Esprit de corps ♦ finance corps ♦ intelligence corps ♦ judge advocate general's corps ♦ le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit ♦ marine corps ♦ Marine Corps Log ♦ medical corps ♦ Mercy Corps International ♦ officer corps ♦ officer's corps ♦ officers' corps ♦ officer's training corps ♦ ordnance corps ♦ peace corps ♦ police corps ♦ press corps ♦ quartermaster corps ♦ Reserve Officers Training Corps ♦ rifle corps ♦ salvage corps ♦ signal corps ♦ the corps diplomatique ♦ the diplomatic corps ♦ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers method ♦ us Marine Corps ♦ volunteer corps. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "corps": corps-de-ballet, corps-sized. | |
Ending with "corps": camel-corps, St-pierre-des-corps. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
peace corps | 1,983 | u.s marine corps | 87 |
marine corps | 1,776 | corps v | 79 |
united state marine corps | 1,525 | civilian conservation corps | 75 |
job corps | 1,332 | marine corps uniform | 74 |
marine corps t shirt | 644 | marine corps league | 73 |
marine corps gift | 632 | marine corps reserve | 72 |
army corps of engineer | 437 | corps drum planet | 72 |
corps of engineer | 400 | marine corps cadence | 69 |
us marine corps | 348 | marine corps emblem | 66 |
us army corps of engineer | 300 | marine corps tattoo | 63 |
drum corps international | 291 | marine corps west federal credit union | 62 |
drum corps | 290 | marine corps picture | 59 |
marine corps marathon | 182 | corps marine wallpaper | 58 |
drum and bugle corps | 164 | marine corps boot camp | 58 |
corps | 123 | corps marine times | 58 |
marine corps institute | 111 | marine corps hymn | 51 |
army corps engineer u.s | 106 | marine corps association | 48 |
corps health national service | 104 | marine corps rank | 47 |
marine corps exchange | 103 | corps marine navy page white | 47 |
u s marine corps | 91 | mercy corps | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "corps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trupë baleti (corps de ballet), korpus (bulk, corpus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فيلق (army corps, legion), سلك (bear, behave, cable, comport, conduct oneself, deport, deport oneself, get along, pursue, service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тяло (body, bulk, figure, flesh, form, frame, person, personage, umbrella), корпус (body, bulk, carcass, fuselage, housing, shell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 軍團 (legion), 兵團 (army, formation, large military unit), 军团 (regiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sbor (body, chorus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | armékorps (army corps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | legerkorps, korps, corps (body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | korpuso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | herdeild. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معده 1, هیلت (Astronomy, Attitude, Commission, Configuration, Hue, Panel, Physique, Staff), لشکر, گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), سپاه (Army, Host). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viestijoukot (Signal Corps), rauhanturvajoukot (peace corps, peace-keeping force), palo-ja pelastuspalvelu (salvage corps), kuormasto (service corps, transport baggage), diplomaattikunta (diplomatic corps), diplomaattiala (diplomatic corps), armeijakunta (army corps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corps d'armée (army corps), corps (corpse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | korps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σώμα στρατού (army corps, cohort), σώμα (body, college, corpus, frame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זרוע צבאי, ס'ל (cadre, staff, suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | testület (advisory board, college, corporation, establishment, plenum, public body, syndicate), alakulat (formation, outfit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | corps, korps, kesatuan (conglomerate, erg, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corpo dell'armata (army corps), corpo (body, corpus, form, frame, shape, staff), gruppo (are, band, batch, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, collection, element group, family, group, heap, herd, knot, lobby, lot, pack, panel, party, set, square, stream, troop, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 隊 (body, company, party), 部隊 (echelon, element, force, unit), 戦隊 (squadron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), ぶたい (echelon, element, force, stage, unit), せ"たい (bryophyte, fleet, hull, moss, squadron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 군단. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | corps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orpscay corpo (bourgeois, brilliant, corpse, cutout, diamond, flesh, frame, organism, shape). (various references) corp (body, bone, carcas, corporation, corpse, corpus, frame, head, housing), grup (band, bundle, clump, cluster, cohort, Covey, crowd, faction, group, knot, pack, parcel, set). (various references) корпус (body, cabinet, casing, housing, long primer, long-primer, pavilion, shell). (various references) rod vojske (branch), korpus. (various references) cuerpo del Ejército (army corps), cuerpo (bodice, body, bones, brigade, carcase, carcass, corpse, corpus, corsage, force, frame, length, outfit). (various references) kår (body, corporation, force, incorporation). (various references) องค์การสำหรับฝึกทางทหารให้แก่นักเรียนในบางโรงเรียนของอังกฤษ (cadet corps), ความ าค ูมิใจในการเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของหมู่ค"ะ (esprit de corps). (various references) topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), kolordu (army corps), kıta (battalion, canto, continent, continental, detachment, quatrain, stanza, stave, strophe, verse), heyet (board, college, commission, committee, deputation, group, mission, panel, posse), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity). (various references) служба (department, job, office, service), рід військ, корпус (cabinet, casing, pavilion). (various references) tinh thần đ"ng đội (esprit de corps). (various references) corfflu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | corpus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | corps. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corps": corpse, corpses, corpsman, corpsmen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "corps": incorpse, incorpsed, incorpses, incorpsing. (additional references) | |
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"Corps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cohrs, coors, copr, copres, Coris, corpa, corpos, corpy, corrs, cors, corus, cowps, cropsu, cros, crsp, cuerpos, korps, kors, krops, scorps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corps" (pronounced kô"r or kô"rz) |
| 3 | k ô" r | cor, core, decor, hardcore, outscore, score, underscore. |
| 2 | -ô" r | abhor, adore, antiwar, anymore, ashore, before, boar, bore, chore, deplore, door, Dore, Dorr, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, heretofore, Hoar, ignore, implore, inshore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, offshore, or, ore, outpour, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, Senor, shore, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, war, whore, wore, yore, your. |
| 4 | k ô" r z | cores, scores, underscores. |
| 3 | -ô" r z | abhors, adores, bores, chores, deplores, doors, drawers, explores, floors, fours, gores, guarantors, ignores, implores, oars, ores, outdoors, pores, pours, restores, roars, shores, soars, sores, spores, stores, wars, whores. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crops. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cops, cors, crop, orcs, pros, rocs, scop. | |
-2 letters: cop, cor, cos, ops, orc, ors, pro, roc, sop. | |
-3 letters: op, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: copers, copras, corpse, corpus, croups, scroop. | |
+2 letters: captors, carhops, coopers, copiers, coppers, coppras, coprahs, copters, corpses, crepons, croupes, cryptos, cuprous, forceps, picaros, porches, process, prosaic, prosect, recoups, scooper, scroops, tropics. | |
+3 letters: acarpous, apocarps, apricots, ascocarp, caltrops, camphors, caporals, caprocks, capsomer, carpools, carports, charpoys, chompers, choppers, cockspur, compares, comparts, compeers, comperes, comports, composer, compress, comprise, conspire, copastor, copperas, corpsman, corpsmen, corpuses, corrupts, coscript, couplers, coverups, crampons, cropless, croppers, croppies, croupous, crowstep, cupreous, cuspidor, exocarps, forcipes, incorpse, mesocarp, necropsy, oosporic, outcrops, parsonic, percoids, pibrochs, picadors, piscator, poachers, pochards, popcorns, porticos, postcard, postrace, pouncers, precious, precodes, precooks, precools, prefocus, prescore, procarps, proceeds, proctors, procures, produces, products, projects, prosects, prosodic, prospect, protects, recopies, ripcords, saprobic, scoopers, scorepad, scorpion, scrooped, sculptor, sporadic, sprocket, strophic, sunporch, supercop, topcross, uroscopy. | |
| 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. | |
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