Paratroops

Definition: Paratroops

Paratroops

Noun

1. Infantry trained and equipped to parachute.

Domain	Definitions
Military & Defense	Troops trained to be dropped by parachutes. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Paratroops

English words defined with "paratroops": para, paratrooper. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Paratroops (1943)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	British Paratroops in Action (reference) French Foreign Legion Paratroops (Elite Series, No 6) (reference) German paratroops in the Med : a selection of German wartime photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz (reference) German Paratroops, Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment of the Fallschirmjager in Wwii: Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment of the Fallschirmjager in World War II (Schiffer Military History) (reference) Paras: 11 Division Parachutiste French Paratroops Today (reference) (more book examples)
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"Paratroops" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Paratroops" is used about 27 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)	96.3%	26	68,323
Lexical Verb (-s form)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

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Language		Translations for "paratroops"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trupa parashutiste. (various references)

Arabic		‏وحدة المظلات, ‏المظليون جند المظليات. (various references)

Bulgarian		парашутно-десантни войски. (various references)

Czech		výsadkové oddíly (parachute troops). (various references)

Danish		faldskærmstropper. (various references)

Dutch		luchtlandingstroepen. (various references)

Finnish		laskuvarjojoukot. (various references)

French		unîtes de parachutistes, troupes aéroportées. (various references)

German		fallschirmtruppe (paratroop). (various references)

Greek		σώμα αλεξιπτωτιστών, αγήματα αλεξιπτωτιστών, δυνάμεις αλεξιπτωτιστών. (various references)

Hebrew		חיל �"צ� ח� ים. (various references)

Hungarian		ejtőernyős csapatok. (various references)

Indonesian		pasukan payung. (various references)

Italian		paracadutisti militari, paracadutisti. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		落下傘部隊 , 空挺隊 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くうていたい, らっかさ�"ぶたい. (various references)

Korean		낙하산부대. (various references)

Pig Latin		aratroopspay.(various references)

Portuguese		tropas pára-quedistas (airborne troops), soldado pára-quedista (trooper). (various references)

Romanian		unitãţi paraşutate, unitãţi de paraşutişti. (various references)

Russian		парашютные части, парашютные войска. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		padobranske jedinice. (various references)

Spanish		tropas paracaidistas (parachute troops). (various references)

Swedish		fallskärmstrupper. (various references)

Turkish		paraşütçü kuvvetleri, hava indirme birliği (parachute troops). (various references)

Ukranian		парашутно-десантні війська. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Paratroops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panatrope, paradrops, Pirithoos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "paratroops" (pronounced pe"rutruw'ps)
4	-r uw' p s	newsgroups, subgroups.
3	-uw' p s	nincompoops.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: paratroop.
	-2 letters: rapports.
	-3 letters: apropos, orators, parrots, rapport, raptors, torpors.
	-4 letters: aortas, orator, parrot, pastor, raptor, rostra, rotors, sapota, sartor, satrap, torpor, troops.
	-5 letters: aorta, apart, aport, arras, ataps, papas, paras, parrs, parts, pasta, poops, ports, praos, prats, proas, props, proso, prost, ratos, roars, roast, roost, roots, rotas, rotor, rotos, sapor, sopor, spoor, sport, sprat, stoop, strap, strop, tapas, taros, tarps, topos, toras, toros, torso, traps, troop.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: propagators.
	+2 letters: paratroopers.
	+3 letters: appropriators.
	+4 letters: appropriations.
	+5 letters: astrophotograph.
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