Tailback

Definitions: Tailback

Tailback

Noun

1. (football) the person who plays tailback.

2. The position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage.

Domain	Title
Books	Undercover Tailback (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Tailback" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tailback" is used about 12 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%	12	101,599

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.

Language		Translations for "tailback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		trafikstandsning (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), trafikprop (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), trafikophobning (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam). (various references)

Dutch		verkeersopstopping (hold-up, obstruction, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic jam, traffic tie-up), stremming (clotting, coagulation, hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), opstopping (bordering, hold-up, obstruction, stemming, stemming material, tamping, traffic jam), file (file, hold-up, line, obstruction, platoon, rank, row, traffic jam, turn). (various references)

French		retenue, embouteillage, bouchon. (various references)

German		stauung (actual stowage, build up, congestion, hold up, hold-up, jam, man-made lake, obstruction, pile up, reservoir, stagnation, stasis, storage, stowage, stowing, traffic jam). (various references)

Greek		κυκλοφοριακή συμφόρηση (hold-up, obstruction, traffic congestion, traffic jam). (various references)

Italian		ingorgo stradale (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), ingorgo del traffico (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), ingorgo (blinding, blockage, blockage of the filter, choke, choking, clogging, congestion, engorgement, flooding, hold up, hold-up, jam, obstruction, overrun, stagnation, stasis, traffic jam), incolonnamento, imbottigliamento (bottling, hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam). (various references)

Pig Latin		ailbacktay.(various references)

Spanish		tranque (hold-up, obstruction, traffic jam), embotellamiento (block, bottleneck, hold up, hold-up, jam, obstruction, tie up, traffic jam), congestionamiento (hold-up, obstruction, overcrowding, traffic jam), congestión (accumulation, aggrégation, blocking, congestion, engorgement, hold-up, obstruction, snarl up, stocking, storing, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic jam, traffic snarl-up). (various references)

Swedish		bilkö (line of cars). (various references)

Turkish		trafik tıkanıklığı nedeniyle oluşan kuyruk, araba kuyruğu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tailback": tailbacks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tailback" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failback, Nailhac, Teillac, tolbiac, Tribick. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-k-l-t"
	-1 letter: backlit.
	-3 letters: abaci, aback, alack, batik, black, cabal, kibla, labia, tabla, tical, tilak.
	-4 letters: acta, alba, alit, baal, back, bail, bait, balk, bilk, blat, calk, clit, ikat, ilka, kail, kata, kilt, lack, laic, lati, lick, tack, tail, taka, tala, talc, tali, talk, tick.
	-5 letters: aal, aba, act, ail, ait, ala, alb, alt, baa, bal, bat, bit, cab, cat, ick, ilk, kab, kat, kit, lab, lac, lat, lib, lit, tab, tic, til.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-k-l-t"
	+1 letter: antiblack, blacktail, tailbacks.
	+2 letters: blacktails.
	+3 letters: packability.
	+4 letters: antibacklash, antiblackism.
	+5 letters: antiblackisms, packabilities.
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