Rattled

Definition: Rattled

Rattled

Adjective

1. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term).

Date "rattled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Rattled

Synonyms: flustered (adj), hot and bothered(p) (adj), perturbed (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Rattled

Specialty definitions using "rattled": Poker Talk ♦ Rumolt. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	San Francisco was rattled by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake Tuesday. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)
Movie/TV Titles	Rattled (1996) The Rattled Rooster (1948)
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Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Rattled (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Rattled By the Rush Ep (reference) Rattled! (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Ice being rattled in a glass.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The young girls rattled and chattered like uncaged warblers.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Casy found a stick on the ground and held down the tongue with it, and the uneven breath rattled in and out.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Furthermore, it is a nation still recovering from an economic crisis that rattled the very foundations of society. (references)
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"Rattled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 81.03% of the time. "Rattled" is used about 311 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	81.03%	252	18,696
Lexical Verb (past participle)	16.08%	50	48,117
Adjective (general or positive)	2.25%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	0.64%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	311	N/A

Expressions using "rattled": be badly rattled ♦ get rattled ♦ he never gets rattled. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "rattled": rattled-off.
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Language		Translations for "rattled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		窘迫不安 (rattling). (various references)

French		perdre son sang-froid (get rattled). (various references)

German		schepperte, gerasselt. (various references)

Indonesian		bingung (confused, disoriented, distrait, mixed up, panicky, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, wool-gathering). (various references)

Korean		덜걱덜걱 소리나�". (various references)

Pig Latin		attledray.(various references)

Romanian		niciodatã nu-şi pierde firea (he never gets rattled). (various references)

Spanish		estar desconcertado (be badly rattled), desconcierte (get rattled), azorarse (be embarrassed, get rattled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "rattled": brattled, prattled, sprattled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rattled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ratley, rattly, Rattue, Retzlaf, rottle, Ruttle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rattled" (pronounced ra"tuld)
5	-a" t u l d	battled, embattled, tattled.
4	-t u l d	belittled, bottled, chortled, disgruntled, dismantled, entitled, mottled, nettled, resettled, scuttled, settled, shuttled, startled, subtitled, throttled, titled, totaled, totalled, unsettled, whittled.
3	-u l d	addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disheveled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tickled, tinkled, toggled, toppled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: dartle, latter, ratted, rattle, tarted, tetrad.
	-2 letters: alder, alert, alter, artel, dater, dealt, delta, derat, lader, lated, later, latte, rated, ratel, taler, tared, tater, tetra, trade, tread, treat.
	-3 letters: dale, dare, dart, date, deal, dear, delt, drat, earl, lade, lard, late, lead, lear, rale, rate, read, real, tael, tale, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, trad, tret.
	-4 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, att, dal, del, ear, eat, eld, era, eta, lad, lar, lat, lea, led, let, rad, rat, red, ret, tad, tae, tar, tat, tea, ted, tel, tet.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, ar, at, de, ed, el, er, et, la, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: brattled, detrital, prattled, startled.
	+2 letters: blattered, clattered, filtrated, flattered, lustrated, sprattled, tolerated.
	+3 letters: adulterant, adulterate, altercated, alternated, elutriated, gratulated, intertidal, laundrette, letterhead, maltreated, reallotted, reluctated, retaliated, sandlotter, splattered, stridulate, tetraploid, translated, tribulated, turtlehead, wattlebird, wildcatter.
	+4 letters: adulterants, adulterated, adulterates, adulterator, advertently, alliterated, articulated, detrimental, dilatometer, dilatometry, gastrulated, illustrated, infiltrated, interdental, launderette, laundrettes, letterheads, obliterated, preallotted, pterodactyl, reticulated, sandlotters, stadtholder, straitlaced, stridulated, stridulates, tetrahedral, tetraploids, tetraploidy, triplicated, turtleheads, ultraheated, wattlebirds, wildcatters.
	+5 letters: abstractedly, acculturated, adulterating, adulteration, adulterators, battleground, departmental, detractively, detrimentals, dilatometers, dilatometric, distractable, distractedly, distractible, editorialist, extraditable, extrapolated, fluidextract, flutterboard, intercalated, interplanted, interpolated, interrelated, interstadial, intertidally, launderettes, lighthearted, matriculated, multitracked, pterodactyls, recultivated, restimulated, retranslated, stadtholders, strangulated, stringhalted, translocated, transplanted, triangulated, tuberculated, untranslated.
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