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Definition: Tailcoat |
TailcoatNoun1. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tailcoat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonyms: TailcoatSynonyms: dress suit (n), full dress (n), tail coat (n), tails (n), white tie (n), white tie and tails (n). (additional references) |
| "Tailcoat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tailcoat" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
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 |
tailcoat | 7 |
tailcoat tie white | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tailcoat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | frak (dress coat, swallowtail, tails). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фрак (cutaway, dress coat, swallow tail, swallow-tailed coat, tails). (various references) | |
Czech | frak (dress coat, tail coat, tails). (various references) | |
Farsi | کت دامن گردمخصوص مواقع رسمی . (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 燕尾服 , テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail fin, tail lamp, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テールコート , え"びふく. (various references) | |
Manx | cooat arbyllagh (frock coat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailcoattay.(various references) | |
Russian | фрак (clawhammer coat, claw-hammer coat, dress coat, evening dress, swallowtail, swallow-tailed coat, tail coat, tail-coat, tails). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | frak (cutaway, dress coat, tail coat). (various references) | |
Swedish | frack (dress coat, dress suit, dress-coat, evening dress, soup and fish, tail-coat). (various references) | |
Thai | เสื้อโค้ตผู้ชายมีชายยาวสองชายที่"้านหลัง. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tailcoat": tailcoated, tailcoats. (additional references) | |
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"Tailcoat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trailcoat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coattail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cattail, cattalo. | |
-2 letters: catalo, citola, coital. | |
-3 letters: atilt, attic, coala, coati, cotta, lotic, octal, tacit, tical, total. | |
-4 letters: acta, alit, alto, calo, ciao, clit, clot, coal, coat, coil, cola, colt, iota, laic, lati, loca, loci, lota, loti, otic, taco, tact, tail, tala, talc, tali, tilt, toil, toit, tola. | |
-5 letters: aal, act, ail, ait, ala, alt, att, cat, col, cot, lac, lat, lit, lot, oat, oca, oil, tao, tat, tic, til, tit, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: coattails, lactation, tailcoats. | |
+2 letters: catabolite, citational, lactations, tailcoated, tractional. | |
+3 letters: acetylation, altercation, articulator, artiodactyl, catabolites, catholicate, dictatorial, facilitator, lactational. | |
+4 letters: acetylations, altercations, amitotically, anecdotalist, apocalyptist, articulation, articulators, articulatory, artiodactyls, atheoretical, auscultation, autocratical, cantillation, capitulation, catholicates, facilitation, facilitators, facilitatory, intercoastal, placentation, spectatorial, tautological, theocratical, timocratical. | |
+5 letters: abstractional, acculturation, actualization, anecdotalists, anticoagulant, antimetabolic, antipolitical, antisocialist, apocalyptists, articulations, astronautical, atomistically, auscultations, autocatalysis, autocatalytic, automatically, cantillations, capitulations, cartelization, catatonically, collaterality, computational, connaturality, connotational, contractional, dictatorially, expectational, facilitations, fluctuational, incantational, interactional, intercalation, isostatically, italicization, matriculation, metafictional, nationalistic, noncapitalist, nontheatrical, patriotically, placentations, rationalistic, sacerdotalist, scholasticate, teratological, transactional, translocating, translocation, ultracautious, ultraromantic, vocationalist. | |
| 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)54 61 69 6C 63 6F 61 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. .-.. -.-. --- .- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100011 01101111 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i l c o a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006C 0063 006F 0061 0074 |
| 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)5467757869816786 |
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