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"CONTRAILS" is a plural of: contrail. |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | Condensation trails. Artificial clouds made by the exhaust of jet aircraft. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Contrails south of San Diego. TIROS V orbit 3343. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CONTRAILS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTRAILS" 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 (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CONTRAILS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | repülőgép nyoma, kondenzcsík (condensation trail, contrail, exhaust trail, jet stream, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ontrailscay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CONTRAILS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantrail, centrail, centrails, Centrais, centralis, centrioles, contail, Contronics, Montreuils, Pontrilas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cilantros. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: carotins, cilantro, clarions, contrail, tonsilar. | |
-2 letters: actions, alnicos, aroints, atonics, cantors, carlins, carotin, cartons, cations, catlins, cistron, citolas, citrals, citrons, clarion, contras, cortins, cratons, latinos, lictors, narcist, nostril, oilcans, oralist, rations, ratlins, rialtos, scrotal, stoical, tailors, talions, tincals. | |
-3 letters: acorns, actins, action, actors, alnico, aloins, antics, aorist, aortic, aristo, aroint, arsino, atonic, cairns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: prolactins, ultrasonic. | |
+2 letters: chlorinates, citronellas, colorations, inculcators, inoculators, intercostal, lacerations, postcranial, pratincoles, relocations, thrasonical, ulcerations, ultrasonics. | |
+3 letters: altercations, astronomical, calibrations, calumniators, cartoonishly, celebrations, chlorinators, circulations, citronellals, clairvoyants, conciliators, consistorial, consolidator, correlations, countervails, crenelations, crenulations, declarations, discordantly, iconolatries, intercoastal, intercostals, intolerances, journalistic, lacrimations, lectionaries, lubrications, lucubrations, microanalyst, narcoleptics, neorealistic, nonrealistic, percolations, prostacyclin, reclamations, reescalation, reinoculates, reluctations, replications, scintillator, unhistorical. | |
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