Ratafia

Definitions: Ratafia

Ratafia

Noun

1. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.

2. Macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur.

Date "ratafia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A kind of liqueur obtained from fruit juice. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ratafia

Synonyms: ratafee (n), ratafia biscuit (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ratafia

English words defined with "ratafia": ratafia biscuit. (references)

"Ratafia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Ratafia" is used about 5 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)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expression using "ratafia": ratafia biscuit. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "ratafia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pije alkoolike (alcohol, boose, booze, drink, fuddle, grog, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, hootch, libation, liquor, lush, ratafee, sauce), biskotë bajame (ratafee). (various references)

Bulgarian		бадемови бисквити (ratafee). (various references)

Danish		ratafia. (various references)

Dutch		ratafia. (various references)

French		ratafia. (various references)

German		Ratafia. (various references)

Greek		ροσόλι. (various references)

Hungarian		mandulával ízesített likõr. (various references)

Italian		ratafi� . (various references)

Pig Latin		atafiaray.(various references)

Portuguese		ratafia. (various references)

Russian		миндальный ликер (ratafee), миндальное печенье (macaroon, rat-a-tat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ratafija. (various references)

Spanish		ratafía. (various references)

Swedish		mandellikör (ratafee), mandelessens, mandelbiskvi, biskvi (Macaroon). (various references)

Thai		เหล้าทำจากผลไม้. (various references)

Vietnamese		rượu hạnh bánh hạnh (ratafee). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ratafia": ratafias. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-f-i-r-t"
	-2 letters: afrit, atria, riata, tafia, tiara.
	-3 letters: afar, airt, aria, fair, fart, fiar, fiat, frat, frit, raft, raia, rift.
	-4 letters: aft, air, ait, arf, art, far, fat, fir, fit, rat, ria, rif, tar.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, at, fa, if, it, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-f-i-r-t"
	+1 letter: ratafias.
	+4 letters: artifactual.
	+5 letters: antiaircraft.
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