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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Greycoats Russian soldiers of the line, who wear grey coats. "You might think of him thus calm and collected charging his rifle for one more shot at the advancing greycoats." - Besant and Rice: By Celia's Arbour, chap. xiv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GREYCOATS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "GREYCOATS" is used about 21 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 (proper) | 57.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (plural) | 42.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: category, escargot. | |
-2 letters: cargoes, coaster, coaters, corsage, garotes, grayest, gyrates, orgeats, sectary, socager, storage. | |
-3 letters: actors, argosy, argots, cagers, carets, cargos, cartes, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, corset, costae, costar, coster, coyest, crates, creasy, ergots, escort, estray, garote, gaster, gators, gayest, graces, grates, greasy, greats, groats, gyrase, gyrate, gyrose, oaters, orates, orgeat, oyster. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: gastrectomy, subcategory. | |
+3 letters: granulocytes. | |
+4 letters: agranulocytes, gesticulatory, proteoglycans, saprogenicity, spectrography. | |
+5 letters: cryptographers, cryptographies, estrogenically, laryngectomees, laryngectomies, megakaryocytes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 45 59 43 4F 41 54 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . -.--. -.-. --- .- - ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 01011001 01000011 01001111 01000001 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E Y C O A T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 0059 0043 004F 0041 0054 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)415239593749355453 |
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