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Definition: Goalie |
GoalieNoun1. The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal. 2. The defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GoalieSynonyms: goalkeeper (n), goaltender (n), netkeeper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goalie |
| English words defined with "goalie": save. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "goalie": kicksave. (references) |
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Screenplays | Unless you're the goalie. (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson) You're a goalie, dude (D3: The Mighty Ducks; writing credit: Steven Brill; Kenneth Johnson) | |
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| "Goalie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Goalie" is used about 61 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) | 98.36% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "goalie": computer-goalie. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
goalie equipment | 313 | camp goalie soccer | 23 |
goalie | 239 | goalie tip | 21 |
goalie mask | 209 | goalie mask design | 20 |
goalie pad | 200 | lacrosse goalie | 20 |
hockey goalie equipment | 200 | goalie leg pad | 19 |
hockey goalie | 125 | soccer goalie jersey | 18 |
ice hockey goalie equipment | 115 | soccer goalie gloves | 18 |
nhl goalie | 97 | goalie store | 17 |
hockey goalie mask | 58 | hockey goalie picture | 17 |
goalie gloves | 56 | custom goalie mask | 16 |
goalie school | 45 | used equipment goalie | 16 |
soccer goalie | 41 | goalie drill | 15 |
goalie helmet | 40 | goalie mask nhl | 15 |
goalie stick | 39 | goalie heaven | 14 |
goalie picture | 37 | goalie jersey | 14 |
goalie skate | 35 | goalie mask painting | 14 |
hockey goalie pad | 34 | camp goalie lacrosse | 13 |
goalie gear | 34 | vaughn goalie equipment | 13 |
goalie camp | 26 | hockey goalie gear | 13 |
nhl goalie picture | 24 | hockey goalie gloves | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "goalie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portier (doorkeeper, doorman, gate keeper, goalee, goalkeeper, janitor, keeper, porter, usher). (various references) | |
Arabic | حارس المرمى (goalkeeper, keeper). (various references) | |
French | gardien de but (goalkeeper). (various references) | |
German | goalmann (goalkeeper), Torwart (goalkeeper), tormann (goalkeeper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kapus (concierge, doorman). (various references) | |
Italian | portiere (goalkeeper, porter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oaliegay.(various references) | |
Russian | вратарь (goalkeeper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | golman (goal keeper, goalee, goalkeeper, keeper). (various references) | |
Spanish | guardameta (goalkeeper), portero (porter), arquero (Archer). (various references) | |
Swedish | målvakt (goalkeeper). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaleci (goal keeper, goalkeeper, keeper, stumper). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | воротар (gate keeper, goal keeper, goalee, porter). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người giữ gôn (goalee, goallkeeper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goalie": goalies. (additional references) | |
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"Goalie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gadali, galae, galeae, galia, Galiev, Geale, Gedali, gialli, Giulii, glavlit, goale, Goaler, Goalo, goatie, goatlike, Goatly, Godlee, goellner, golau, Golay, golee, golie, gollie, googlie, goole, goolie, goolis, gorale, Gorlice, Gotlieb, goule, goulie, Goulomet, Goulue, Guilio, gulai, Jogaila. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goalie" (pronounced gō"lē) |
| 3 | -ō" l ē | guacamole, holy, lowly, moly, ravioli, slowly, unholy, wholly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o" | |
-1 letter: agile, logia. | |
-2 letters: agio, aloe, egal, gale, gaol, glia, goal, ilea, loge, ogle, olea. | |
-3 letters: age, ago, ail, ale, ego, gae, gal, gel, gie, goa, lag, lea, leg, lei, lie, log, oil, ole. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, el, go, la, li, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o" | |
+1 letter: eulogia, foliage, geoidal, goalies, soilage. | |
+2 letters: collegia, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, eulogiae, eulogias, foliaged, foliages, gasolier, gasoline, gelation, geraniol, girasole, goadlike, goatlike, idealogy, latigoes, legation, obligate, otalgies, pilotage, regional, seraglio, soilages, spoilage. | |
+3 letters: aetiology, allogenic, alongside, analogies, analogize, apologiae, apologies, apologise, apologize, aureoling, bricolage, cogitable, coleading, coliphage, collegial, collegian, colligate, congenial, coxalgies, dialogers, dialogued, dialogues, enhaloing, gasoliers, gasolines, gelations, genocidal, geraniols, girandole, girasoles, glamorise, glamorize, globalise, globalize, idealogue, ignorable, legations, legionary, logaoedic, neuroglia, obligated, obligates, pilotages, poleaxing, recoaling, regionals, reloading, reloaning, rigmarole, seraglios, sloganize, spoilages, trialogue. | |
| 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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