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Definitions: Rattler |
RattlerNoun1. Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken. 2. A railroad train consisting of freight cars. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rattler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. York. Cannel coal. b. Scot. Inferior gas coal; sandy shale. c. U.K. A variety of gas coal that fetched high prices and was reputed to ignite with a match. It is hard, compact, uniform, bright, brittle, fine-grained, slightly sonorous when struck, and resembling jet but not so brilliant d. A revolving steel drum with a charge of metal spheres used for testing the abrasive resistance of brick. e. A device for shaking out the cores from small castings, such as atumbling barrel. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | RATTLER. A coach. Rattle and prad; a coach and horses. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: RattlerSynonyms: freight train (n), rattlesnake (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rattler |
| English words defined with "rattler": canebrake rattler ♦ ground rattler ♦ Horned rattler ♦ massasauga rattler ♦ prairie rattler ♦ Water rattle, Water rattler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rattler": rattler test. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rio Rattler (1935) The Rattler (1925) Broncho Billy and the Rattler (1914) Rattler (2000) | |
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| "Rattler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rattler" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rattler" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rattler | Last name | 400 | 21,302 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "rattler": canebrake rattler ♦ diamondback rattler ♦ ground rattler ♦ Horned rattler ♦ massasauga rattler ♦ prairie rattler ♦ water rattler. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rattler": sabre-rattler. | |
| 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 |
arizona rattler | 140 |
rattler timber | 122 |
wisconsin timber rattler | 106 |
rattler | 105 |
race rattler | 66 |
rattler rochester | 49 |
download race rattler | 46 |
ground rattler | 12 |
alarm car rattler | 11 |
az rattler | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rattler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossip, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, magpie, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, talkative, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag), gjarpër me zile (rattlesnake), gjë që rrapëllin. (various references) | |
Arabic | المخشخش, ثعبان سام (poisonous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съкрушителен удар (finisher, knockdown), товарен влак (freight, goods train), таратайка (bone shaker, crock, flivver, heap, rattletrap, shandrydan), гърмяща змия (rattlesnake), нещо което хлопа, нещо което трака, първокачествен екземпляр, дърдорко (gabbler, gasbag, pop off, prattler, rattle, rattle-brain, rattle-pate, rattletrap, tattler, tattletale). (various references) | |
Danish | Los Angeles-prøve (rattler test). (various references) | |
Dutch | rattlerproef (rattler test), rammelproef (rattler test). (various references) | |
Farsi | مارزنگی (Rattlesnake), چیزی که تغ تغ کند, جغجغه (Rattle). (various references) | |
French | serpent sonnette (rattlesnake), crotale (rattlesnake). (various references) | |
German | Schwätzer (babbler, blabber, blatherer, chatterbox, chatterer, chatterers, gabber, gabbler, gas-bag, gossip, gossiper, jawsmith, prater, rattlers, talker, tattler, wind-bag). (various references) | |
Greek | κροτών (clapper, ticker), κροταλίασ (rattle snake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתן "מעוי ים (rattlesnake), רעשן (clapper, noisemaker, rowdy), חש קיש" (rattlesnake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kereplõ (clapper), csörgõkígyó (rattlesnake, side-winder), csörgõ (rattle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ular berbisa (adder, asp, viper). (various references) | |
Italian | chiassone. (various references) | |
Manx | clabberey cliwe (sabre rattler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attlerray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palrador (chatterbox, chatterer, mouthy, Prater, talking, tattler, telltale), coisa excelente, coisa boa, cobra cascavel. (various references) | |
Romanian | zurbagiu, tren (baggage, train), persoanã gãlãgioasã, gaiţã (gossip, jabberer, jay, magpie, telltale), flecar (babbler, blab, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, driveller, flibbertigibbet, flippant, garrulous, magpie, sieve, talkative, talker, talky, telltale, windbag), şarpe-cu-clopoţei (rattlesnake). (various references) | |
Russian | сенсация (brouhaha, sensation), трещотка (click, ratchet, rattle, rattlers, rattletrap), гремучая змея (rattlesnake), болтун (babbler, bag of wind, barber's cat, blab, blabber, blabbermouth, blatherskite, bletherskate, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, jay, leaky vessel, mag, parakeet, prater, prattler, rattle-box, retailer, talker, tattler, tattletale, windbag, wind-jammer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klepetuša, čegrtaljka (rattle). (various references) | |
Spanish | yarará (rattlesnake), serpiente de cascabel (rattlesnake). (various references) | |
Swedish | pratmakare (babbler, blatherskite, bletherskate, cackler, chatterbox, chatter-box, chatterer, flibbertigibbet, gabber, popinjay, Prater, prattler, talker, windbag). (various references) | |
Turkish | çıngıraklı yılan (rattlesnake, sidewinder). (various references) | |
Ukranian | колимага, балакун (babbler, blab, chatterbox, chatterer, conversationalist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rattler": rattlers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rattler": prattler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rattler": prattlers. (additional references) | |
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"Rattler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hattler, Ratler, Ratley, rattery, rattly, Rattue, Ratzer, Rentzler, Rettner, Retzlaf, rittler, rottle, Rottser, Ruttle, Wachtler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rattler" (pronounced ra"tuler) |
| 4 | -t u l er | kittler, Littler, settler, subtler. |
| 3 | -u l er | abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, juggler, jugular, kindler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, swindler, testicular, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrangler, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: latter, ratter, rattle, retral, tarter. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, artel, later, latte, ratel, rater, taler, tarre, tater, terra, tetra, treat. | |
-3 letters: earl, late, lear, rale, rare, rate, real, rear, tael, tale, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tret. | |
-4 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, err, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, ret, tae, tar, tat, tea, tel, tet. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: prattler, rattlers, startler. | |
+2 letters: clatterer, craterlet, flatterer, literator, prattlers, startlers, tolerator. | |
+3 letters: alternator, clatterers, craterlets, elutriator, flatterers, intertrial, literators, literature, maltreater, rattletrap, retractile, tolerators, torrential, trailerist, trailerite, trilateral, triliteral, triturable. | |
+4 letters: adulterator, alternators, artillerist, elutriators, interrelate, intertribal, literatures, litterateur, maltreaters, obliterator, preliterate, proletariat, protectoral, protractile, rattlebrain, rattletraps, regrettable, regrettably, restartable, retaliatory, retractable, retranslate, terrestrial, territorial, tetrahedral, trailerists, trailerites, triliterals, ultrasecret. | |
+5 letters: adulterators, artillerists, erythroblast, extramarital, extrapolator, flutterboard, hairsplitter, interorbital, interpolator, interrelated, interrelates, interstellar, levorotatory, litterateurs, obliterators, preliterates, proletariats, rattlebrains, rearticulate, recalcitrant, retractility, retranslated, retranslates, streetwalker, telemarketer, terrestrials, territorials, tetrapyrrole, torrentially, transplanter, trochanteral, ultrarealist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 74 74 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- - - .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a t t l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0074 0074 006C 0065 0072 |
| 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)52678686787184 |
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