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Definition: Fracas |
FracasNoun1. Noisy quarrel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fracas" was first used: 1727. (references) |
Etymology: Fracas \Fra"cas\, noun. [French expression, crash, din, tumult, Italian fracasso, from fracassare to break in pieces, perhaps from fra within, among (L. infra) cassare to annul, cashier. Compare to Cashier, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: FracasSynonyms: affray (n), altercation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Shindy; fracas; (discord); clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment; velitation; colluctation, luctation; brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting. |
Discord | Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair. |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fracas |
| English words defined with "fracas": unbloodied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fracas": Devil among the Tailors. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fracas" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bang, clangour, clatter, crack, crash, rattle, smash, thunder, wallop). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shot in the Fracas (1916) An Auto-Bungalow Fracas (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a play and a fracas as much as a conversation. |
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| "Fracas" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Fracas" is used about 83 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) | 98.8% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fracas | 762 |
fracas perfume | 13 |
1.1 fracas | 6 |
fracas game | 5 |
download fracas | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fracas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), kacafytje (dustup, scrimmage, scuffle, wrestle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشاجرة (fray, kerfuffle, mayhem, ruction, scrimmage, spat, stink), شجار (affray, altercation, bicker, brawl, breeze, broil, controversy, fight, melee, miff, muss, quarrel, row, rowdiness, ruck, ruction, rumble, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shindy, slugfest, squabble, squall, tiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скандал (affair, blowup, kick up, row, scandal, scene), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rvaèka (affray, dogfight, fight, melee, scrap, scrimmage, tussle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bagarre (fray, fraying), accrochage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufruhr (agitation, confusion, convulsion, disorder, insurrection, mutiny, pandemonium, rebellion, revolt, riot, sedition, seditions, stir, storm, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turmoll, upheaval, uprising, uproar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καβγάσ (fight, jangle, quarrel, row), φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fuss, hassle, hob, nuisance, pother, rowdiness, trouble), θόρυβοσ (ado, ballyhoo, clatter, din, hubbub, noise, racket, ruckus, rumpus, shindy, tumult, uproar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"ומ" (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, mess, muss, pandemonium, riot, rout, ruction, stir, trouble, tumble, turmoil), "תכתשות (fight, fisticuffs, melee, roughhouse, wrestling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | perpatvar (dust-up, quarrel, ruckus, squabble, tiff, unpleasantness), hangos veszekedés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pertengkaran (bickering, bustup, contention, contest, fray, tow-row, wrangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fracasso (crash, din, hubbub, noise, outroar, racket, smash, smasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acasfray colossal (bloodcurdling, clinking, colossal, gigantic, monster, monstrous, spanking, stunning, Titanic, whacking, whopping), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, Donnybrook, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurrah, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), balbúrdia (agitation, bedlam, confusion, foul up, hurly burly, mess, muddle, racket, riot, rumpus, stirabout, tumult, uproar). (various references) ссора (affray, altercation, bad blood, difference, disagreement, falling-out, hassle, jar, muss, quarrel, ruction, rumpus, run-in, upset), потасовка (hand-play, mix up, mix-in, scrimmage). (various references) gungula (commotion, hubbub, huddle, ruction, turmoil). (various references) gresca (argument, disagreement, dispute, free for all, quarrel, uproar, wrangle), batahola (din, rumpus). (various references) uppträde (scene), bråk (ado, bother, brawl, din, disturbance, dust-up, flare up, fraction, fray, fuss, hubbub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, incident, kick up, miff, noise, rag, row, ruction, rumpus, trouble, tumult, unpleasantness, uproar, upset). (various references) การทะเลาะที่มีเสียงอึกทึกครึกโครม. (various references) patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult, welter), kavga kıyamet (affray, dustup, shemozzle), gürültülü kavga (shemozzle), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references) gopgun (din, noise). (various references) скандал (affray, kick up, roughhouse, scandal, shine, stink, wing-ding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | litis. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | fracasso. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fracas": fracases. (additional references) | |
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"Fracas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facas, farakat, Farakos, farcis, Farkas, Farkasa, Feraccas, frac, fraca, fracai, fracass, frace, fracis, fraciss, fracs, fracus, Frakes, Franas, frases, Frecs, fricase, Fricsay, fridas, frisas, Gracac, verrucas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fracas" (pronounced frā"kus) |
| 3 | -k u s | abacus, amicus, carcass, caucus, circus, coccus, crocus, discus, focus, hocus, locus, markkas, mucous, mucus, Orcas, raucous, refocus, ruckus, streptococcus, viscous, yarmulkes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-r-s" | |
-1 letter: afars, sacra, scarf. | |
-2 letters: afar, arcs, arfs, cars, casa, scar. | |
-3 letters: aas, arc, arf, ars, car, far, fas, ras, sac. | |
-4 letters: aa, ar, as, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-r-s" | |
+1 letter: carafes. | |
+2 letters: carfares, flatcars, fracases, fractals, seacraft. | |
+3 letters: artefacts, artifacts, craftsman, flancards, flashcard, furcraeas, seacrafts, warcrafts. | |
+4 letters: affricates, aftercares, afterclaps, cafeterias, campcrafts, crankshaft, fabricants, fabricates, factorages, factorials, fascicular, fascinator, flagrances, flashcards, fragrances, handcrafts, picofarads, saccharify, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, surfactant. | |
+5 letters: affirmances, anfractuous, craftsmanly, craftswoman, crankshafts, defalcators, fabricators, farinaceous, fascinators, flagrancies, fragrancies, fricandeaus, handicrafts, malefactors, microfarads, microfaunas, sacrificial, safecracker, scalariform, spacecrafts, stagecrafts, statecrafts, surfactants, tradecrafts, watercrafts. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 61 63 61 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .- -.-. .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01100001 01100011 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r a c a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0061 0063 0061 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408467696785 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Turkmen | Тюркменски Език, Turkmène, Turkmenin, Turkmene, Τουρκομάνος, turkmeno, turcomano, turquemeno, turquemene, turkmenistanier | |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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