Felis

Definition: Felis

Felis

Noun

1. Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats.

Date "Felis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Felis \Fe"lis\, noun. [Latin expression, cat.]. (Websters 1913)

"Felis" is a common misspelling or typo for: felid.

Synonym: Felis

Synonym: genus Felis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Felis

English words defined with "Felis": Clouded tiger, Ctenocephalides felis ♦ domestic cat ♦ Felis bengalensis, Felis catus, Felis chaus, Felis concolor, Felis domesticus, Felis manul, Felis ocreata, Felis onca, Felis pardalis, Felis serval, Felis silvestris, Felis tigrina, Felis wiedi, Felis yagouaroundi ♦ genus Felis ♦ house cat ♦ jaguar ♦ leopard cat ♦ Pampas cat, panther, Panthera onca ♦ Sea cat. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Felis": Cat Diseases, Cat-Scratch Disease ♦ Felis subfamily. (references)

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

Papiamen (fortunate, happy).

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Commercial Usage: Felis

Domain	Title
Books	Die Wildkatze : Felis silvestris (reference) Dissection of the Cat and Comparisons With Man: A Laboratory Manual on Felis Domestica (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Felis

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Photo Album: Felis

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Plate 236. The Salt-Water Catfish. Arius felis (L.), J. & G.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Felis, et Leporis / [Josias Murer].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and Pyxis Nautica / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Felis

"Felis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Felis" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Felis

Expressions using "Felis": Arinus felis ♦ arius felis ♦ Ctenocephalides felis ♦ Felis aurata ♦ Felis Bengalensis ♦ Felis borealis ♦ Felis Canadensis ♦ Felis caracal ♦ Felis catus ♦ felis chaus ♦ Felis colocolo ♦ Felis concolor ♦ Felis domestica ♦ felis domesticus ♦ Felis eyra ♦ Felis irbis ♦ Felis irbis or uncia ♦ Felis jaguarondi ♦ Felis leo ♦ Felis leopardus ♦ Felis macrocelis ♦ Felis manul ♦ Felis marmorata ♦ Felis mitis ♦ felis ocreata ♦ Felis onca ♦ Felis or Lynx caracal ♦ Felis or Lynx rufa ♦ Felis pajeros ♦ Felis pardalis ♦ Felis pardina ♦ Felis pardus ♦ Felis rufa ♦ Felis serval ♦ felis silvestris ♦ Felis subfamily ♦ Felis tigrina ♦ Felis tigris ♦ Felis uncia ♦ Felis wagati ♦ felis wiedi ♦ felis yagouaroundi ♦ genus Felis. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Felis

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
felis pardalis	15
concolor felis	13
felis catus	8
felis margay wiedii	5
felis silvestris	5
bengalensis felis	4
felis rufus	4
felis tigrina	4
felis sylvestris	3
domesticus felis	3
cytauxzoon felis	3
felis libyca	3
felis	3
ctenocephalides felis	3
concolor cougar felis lion mountain picture	2
domestica felis	2
felis haemobartonella	2
concolor felis puma	2
chaus felis	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Felis

Language		Translations for "Felis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		genre Felis (Felis subfamily). (various references)

Pig Latin		elisfay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Felis"

Words rhyming with "Felis" (pronounced 'Fe"lis'): Amaryllis, Anolis, Caulis, Challis, Digitalis, Eblis, Epulis, Hamamelis, Hemerocallis, Peplis, tallis, torticollis, trellis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Felis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: files, flies.
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-s"
	-1 letter: file, fils, isle, leis, lief, lies, life, seif, self.
	-2 letters: efs, elf, els, fie, fil, ifs, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel.
	-3 letters: ef, el, es, if, is, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-s"
	+1 letter: elfins, elfish, falsie, felids, fields, filers, filets, filles, filose, filses, fliers, fliest, flites, fusile, itself, lifers, rifles, stifle.
	+2 letters: beliefs, defiles, failles, falsies, fecials, felines, fellies, felsite, ferlies, fetials, fiddles, filches, fillers, fillets, fillies, filmers, filmset, filters, fimbles, finales, finless, fipples, fissile, fizzles, flemish, floosie, flossie, foibles, foliose, folkies, follies, fusible, himself, hisself, lefties, leftish, leftism, leftist, liefest, lifters, misfile, olefins, piffles, pilfers, refiles, refills, refilms, reflies, reliefs, riffles, riflers, selfing, selfish, skiffle, sniffle, stifled, stifler, stifles, subfile, sulfide, sulfite, trifles.
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