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Definition: Scissortail |
ScissortailNoun1. Gray flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ScissortailSynonym: scissortailed flycatcher (n). (additional references) |
| "Scissortail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Scissortail" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
scissortail | 9 |
flycatcher scissortail | 7 |
energy scissortail | 4 |
scissortail rasbora | 2 |
bird scissortail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scissortail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | вид американска птица (icterus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | issortailscay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scissortail": scissortails. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: socialists. | |
-2 letters: coistrils, sciolists, socialist. | |
-3 letters: aoristic, assistor, classist, clitoris, coassist, coistril, oralists, sacrists, sciolist, solicits. | |
-4 letters: aorists, aristos, assoils, assorts, castors, citolas, citrals, classis, colitis, costars, crissal, italics, lictors, oralist, racists, rialtos, sacrist, sailors, satiric, satoris, scissor, scotias, scrotal, silicas, socials, solicit, soritic, stoical, tailors. | |
-5 letters: across, actors, aiolis, aorist, aortic, ariosi, aristo, ascots, assist, assoil, assort, caroli, carols, cassis, castor, citola, citral, claros, clasts, coasts, coatis, coital, corals, costal, costar, crasis, crisis, crissa, crista, iatric, italic, lassos, lictor, lorica, racist, ratios, rialto, rictal, roasts, sailor, satori, scarts, scoria, scotia, scrota, sialic, silica, sisals, sistra, sitars, social, stairs, stasis, stoics, strass, tailor, tarocs, ticals, tolars, trails, triacs, trials, triols, tsoris. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: scissortails. | |
+3 letters: crossabilities, historicalness. | |
+4 letters: pictorialnesses. | |
+5 letters: arteriosclerosis, historicalnesses, processabilities. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 69 73 73 6F 72 74 61 69 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .. ... ... --- .-. - .- .. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c i s s o r t a i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0069 0073 0073 006F 0072 0074 0061 0069 006C |
| 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)5369758585818486677578 |
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