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Definition: Coppery |
CopperyAdjective1. Having the color of copper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coppery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonym: CopperySynonym: copper colored (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Coppery |
| English words defined with "coppery": Agkistrodon contortrix, amberfish, amberjack, Austrocedrus chilensis ♦ beetleweed ♦ Chilean cedar, cold's foot, copperhead, Cupreous ♦ galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, greenbottle, greenbottle fly ♦ Prussian blue ♦ Turnbull's blue ♦ wandflower. (references) |
| "Coppery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coppery" is used about 35 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "coppery": coppery-grey, coppery-purple, coppery-red. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coppery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjyrë bakri (copper, cupreous), me bakër (cupriferous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نحاسي (brazen, copper, cuprous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с меден цвят, с бакърен цвят. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mìdìný (cupreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cuivré. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kupferartig (cupric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαλκώδησ (cupreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rezes (brassy, brazen, copper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opperycay de cobre (copper, cupreous). (various references) содержащий медь (cupreous, cupriferous), цвета меди. (various references) bakarne boje. (various references) cobreño. (various references) koppar- (cupreous, cupric). (various references) ที่มีสีทองแ"ง. (various references) bakırlı (cupreous, cupric, cuprous), bakır gibi. (various references) що містить у собі мідь, мідно-червоний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Coppery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: choppery, Colpeper, Colpepper, Coopper, copay, coper, Coppay, coppler, coppr, cuppery, jopplety, opery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coppery" (pronounced kÄ"perē) |
| 3 | -p er ē | drapery, papery, slippery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-p-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: copper, popery, pyrope, recopy. | |
-2 letters: coper, coyer, crepy, ropey. | |
-3 letters: cero, cope, copy, core, cory, crop, oyer, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prey, prop, pyre, repo, repp, rope, ropy, yore. | |
-4 letters: cep, cop, cor, coy, cry, ope, orc, ore, pec, pep, per, pop, pro, pry, pye, rec, rep, roc, roe, rye, yep. | |
-5 letters: er, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-p-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: prophecy. | |
+2 letters: hyperopic, preoccupy. | |
+3 letters: preceptory, prepotency, presbyopic. | |
+4 letters: presbyopics. | |
+5 letters: appreciatory, coprosperity, cyclopropane, hypercomplex, hypertrophic, preoccupancy, preoccupying, spectroscopy. | |
| 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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