Threat

Definitions: Threat

Threat

Noun

1. Something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan".

2. A warning that something unpleasant is immanent; "they were under threat of arrest".

3. Declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit".

4. A person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood".

Date "threat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Threat

Domain	Definitions
Computing	An action or event that might prejudice security. Source: European Union. (references)
	A specific activity that may lead to a breach of the system security. Source: European Union. (references)
Federal Student Aid	Threat is an activity, deliberate or unintentional, with the potential for causing harm to an automated information system or activity. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Threat

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A threat can be the perception of insecurity, see also risk.

A threat is also an explicit or implicit message from a person to another that the first will cause something bad to happen to the other, often except when certain demands are met. Often a weapon is used. Examples are a robbery, kidnapping, hijacking, extortion, blackmail.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Threat."

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Synonyms: Threat

Synonyms: menace (n), scourge (n), terror (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Threat

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defiance	Noun: defiance; daring & Verb:; dare; challenge, cartel; threat; war cry, war whoop.
Malediction	Threat; more bark than bite; invective; (disapprobation).
Threat	Verb: threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully.
	Noun: threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination; (curse); gathering clouds; (warning).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Threat

English words defined with "threat": absolutism ♦ close supporting fire, commination, counterintelligence ♦ despotism, duress ♦ electronic warfare-support measures, endanger, ESM ♦ hold over, hold up ♦ imperil, Intermination ♦ jeopardise, jeopardize ♦ menace, militarism, mug ♦ peril, protection ♦ ransom, redeem, robbery ♦ saber rattling, sabre rattling, stick up ♦ threaten, tribute, tyranny ♦ yellow peril. (references)

Specialty definitions using "threat": After-clap ♦ Column at Boulogne, contempt of official orders ♦ DEFENSIVE FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS OPERATOR, Defensive Medicine, domestic violence ♦ electronic warfare support measures, Exposure Concentration ♦ failure to comply with the regulations governing the protection of tenants of domestic and commercial properties, family violence, firewall machine, Flood Statement, Flood Warning ♦ gunch ♦ Halgaver, Hazardous Air Pollutants, Hazardous Substance, hollised, hostile track ♦ Imminent Threat, Industrial Source Reduction, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Internet Explorer ♦ Luck of Eden Hall ♦ MEGO ♦ OCCUPATIONAL-SAFETY-AND-HEALTH INSPECTOR, occupational-safety-and-health-compliance officer ♦ Panuveitis, Pluck his Goose, proxy gateway, Public health advisory ♦ Quos Ego ♦ Red Feathers, REDEYE GUNNER, Remedial Response ♦ salvage corps, severely threatened coastline, significant track, Site Inspection, software patent, SWEAT Index ♦ threat-oriented munitions, Trade Act of 1974. (references)

Etymologies containing "threat": Abstruse. (references)

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Modern Usage: Threat

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A triple threat. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) A shadow and a threat have been growing in my mind. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) You've become a significant threat to the national security structure. (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison) Is that a threat, buddy? (Dr. Dolittle 2; writing credit: Larry Levin) Mr. Chisum, that sounds like a threat! (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady)
Lyrics	Now every woman I see is a potential threat (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon (After The Rain Has Fallen; performing artist: Sting)
Movie/TV Titles	The Chinese Threat (1963) Triple Threat (1948) Threat Matrix (2003) Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat (2002) Death Threat (1998)
Song Titles	That Reason Why (performing artist: Idol Threat)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Threat

Domain	Title
Books	After Bipolarity: The Vanishing Threat, Theories of Cooperation, and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance (reference) Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War (reference) The Policy of Nuclear Adventurism: A Threat to World Peace (reference) The Threat : Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda (reference) Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and the Soviet Threat Among Other Things (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of Threat Assessment (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Gate Keepers - The New Threat (Vol. 4) (reference) Mobile Suit Gundam - Threat of Zeon (Vol. 3) (reference) Robotech - A New Threat (Vol. 7) (reference) Double Threat (reference) Transformers Vol. 1 - Prime Threat (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Greensleeves Rhythm Album 32: Threat (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Freespace / Silent Threat Bundle (Jewel Case) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Threat

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Photo Album: Threat

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dave Meyer conducts a throw trap sample of high marsh tide pools on the remnant islands of the Poplar Island archipelago. The collection will help to determine the types and number of small fish and invertebrates that use the tide pools. The collection was looking to determine which species exist in the tide pools where there is no threat from predation.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		A security fence is installed at an on campus nursery in a St. Petersburg school to prevent vandalism and to reduce the threat of unintentional impacts to the plants in the nursery.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	An F-16 flying in support of Operation Northern Watch. In an air combat role, the F-16's maneuverability and combat radius (distance it can fly to enter air combat, stay, fight and return) exceed that of all potential threat fighter aircraft. It can loca.		Master Sgt. Kenneth Taylor, 19th Special Operation Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., flies the Visual Threat Recognition and Avoidance Trainer which he designed to provide realistic interactive training for threat avoidance during hostile anti-aircraft enga.
	Pentagon officials announced U.S. military forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia increased their Threat Condition to the highest level, "Delta," Oct. 30 in response to a creditable threat in the region involving unspecified targets. (Photo illustrat.		View from Southwest. Photograph by W.S. Stewart, November 23, 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, DEL, 2-NEWCA,41-1) The U.S. government built this arsenal in 1809 under threat of war with Britain. Originally a one-story building with a wagon entrance at each end to help with the storage and distribution of arms, the Old Arsenal played an important role in both the War of 1812 and the Mexican War of 1846-48. It also housed the garrison from nearby Fort Delaware when that fort burned in 1831. The second story and cupola date from the 1850s, when the building was converted into a public school.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Although the threat of smallpox is declining, this child has to put up with a routine vaccination. / UNRQA/WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by George Nehmeh..		Plan view amidships and forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 August 1945. Note that the ship's torpedo tubes have been removed, replaced by twin 40mm gun mounts located immediately aft of her smokestack, in response to the threat of Japanese suicide aircraft. A Fletcher class destroyer is alongside (inboard), which has also received an enhanced anti-aircraft gun battery, with 40mm quadruple gun mounts fitted between the smokestacks. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.Credit: NAVY.
	Atomic threat.Credit: Library of Congress.		A threat to "Big Ten" title.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Threat

Author	Quotation
Denis Diderot	Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Walt Whitman	This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Threat

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled. (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess so formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Threat

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	What! Threat you me with telling of the King?
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Failure dulled and the future was no threat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Threat

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Gum disease is a threat to your oral health. (references)
		Meningitis and blood poisoning pose a constant threat. (references)
		How soft a surface must be to pose a threat is unknown. (references)
Business		Domestic manufacturing does not pose a threat to imports. (references)
		Some American fast-food chains are seen as the symbolic epitome of this threat. (references)
		This indicates a now widely held perception that the threat of invasion from Russia is greatly reduced. (references)
Civil Liberties	Bangladesh	They also issued a death threat against him. (references)
	Vietnam	This law poses a threat to investigative reporting. (references)
	Argentina	The following week, Oeschger received a telephone threat referring to the shooting. (references)
Economic History	India	Fiscal Deficit: India's finances pose a threat to medium-term prosperity. (references)
	Italy	Political violence is considered a low threat to foreign investments in Italy. (references)
	Dominica	Reacting to a perceived threat, the planters lobbied for more direct British rule. (references)
Human Rights	Afghanistan	Nonetheless, the mines are expected to pose a threat for many years. (references)
	South Africa	Concerns have been raised over the potential threat to thousands of juvenile offenders. (references)
	Georgia	Often the threat of incarceration in this facility was sufficient to induce confession or extortion. (references)
Indigenous People	Panama	The Ngobe also are under threat due to the isolation of their reserves, encroachment by settlers, and generalized poverty. (references)
Minorities	Turkey	In April the Jewish community in Istanbul received a phone threat against a 500-year-old synagogue. (references)
	Cambodia	However, animosity toward ethnic Vietnamese who are seen as a threat to the nation and culture continues. (references)
Political Economy	Cambodia	The Khmer Rouge no longer is a political or military threat. (references)
	South Africa	Legislation still in force from the apartheid era poses a potential threat to the independence of the media, and self-censorship exists. (references)
	Oman	It is concerned with internal stability and security, given the tensions in the region, the proximity of Iran and Iraq, and the potential threat of political Islam. (references)
Political Rights	Jamaica	The Councilor's car windshield was broken, and he later received a telephone threat. (references)
	Singapore	The PAP has used the threat to withdraw benefits as a means of assuring popular support. (references)
	Singapore	This threat heightened concerns among some observers about voters' genuine freedom to change their government. (references)
Trade	Singapore	Generally, the import of goods which the government says pose a threat to health, security, safety and social decency are controlled. (references)
	Ukraine	Problems common to all commercial banks in Ukraine include: uncertain macroeconomic conditions; the value of credit resources; and the threat that inflation will not be kept under control. (references)
	Russia	More recently, with the onset of the financial crisis and the government's emphasis on improving revenue collection, the concept of FEZs has been criticized as a threat to federal budget revenues. (references)
Travel	Egypt	However, the threat has not been eliminated. (references)
	Guatemala	Crime: The main security threat in Guatemala is street crime. (references)
	Spain	Terrorism does not pose a significant threat to Americans in Spain. (references)
Women	India	A significant number of women in the Kashmir valley appear to be complying with the order, frightened by the threat of being attacked with acid. (references)
	South Africa	There have been incidents of harassment by policemen demanding sexual favors of prostitutes under threat of penalizing them for lewd conduct or public loitering. (references)
	Uruguay	A 1999 Ministry of Public Health study projected that within 5 years, domestic violence would constitute the second most prevalent threat to public health, after traffic accidents. (references)
Worker Rights	Jordan	Unions generally do not seek approval for a strike, but workers use the threat of a strike as a negotiating tactic. (references)
	Zimbabwe	In one case, a private hospital was forced, under threat of violence, to pay $16,000 (Z$5 million) in back wages to 30 former employees. (references)
	Saint Lucia	The Ministry enforces the act through threat of closure of the business if it discovers violations and the violator does not correct them. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Threat

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Christopher Shays	They're logical concerns, but the stakes are high. This is like after World War II when we had a new threat, we had to develop a new strategy and we had to reorganize.
Dennis Miller	Completely overlooks the threat posed by people with a parachute around their nipples and a lemon zester dangling from their Adam's apples.
John Ashcroft	Well, I think it's this mentality that we had for years that there were two separate threats, and one addressed one threat and one addressed another.
John McCain	I agree. And the fact is that Osama bin Laden, when he had sanctuary in terrorist camps, training camps, where he was able to train thousands of people, was a tremendous threat.
Porter Goss	Oh, absolutely. And there's a difference, of course, a distinction between the nuclear capability and the other aspects of threat posed by Saddam Hussein, not necessarily the Iraqi people. I think those are important distinctions.
Rush Limbaugh	Over and over again, Al Gore makes it clear that he believes the threat to the environment is so severe that we need to resort to the kind of Draconian central planning that failed so miserably every place it has been tried.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Threat

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	There are men of all races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon our public revenues or a threat to social order.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	To counter the threat of those who seek to rule by force, we must pay the costs of our own needed military strength, and help to build the security of others.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	In a word, Cuba was under the continuous threat of aggressive forces, which did not conceal their intention to invade its territory.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	But despite this progress, we must maintain a military force that is capable of deterring any threat to this Nation's security, whatever the mode of aggression.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Another major threat to every American's person and property is the criminal carrying a handgun.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Hence, it is also a dangerous threat to world peace.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Well, I believe there's a better way of eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	America will not accept a serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our allies.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Threat

"Threat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Threat" is used about 5,423 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)	99.45%	5,393	1,814
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.35%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.11%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	0.06%	3	202,518
Noun (common)	0.04%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	5,423	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Threat

The following table summarizes the usage of "threat" 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
Threat	Last name	300	29,538
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Threat

Expressions using "threat": accidental threat ♦ be ubder threat ♦ be under threat of ♦ constitute a threat ♦ damage threat ♦ deliberate threat ♦ human threat ♦ intentional threat ♦ launch a threat ♦ potential threat ♦ there is a threat of a rain ♦ there is a threat of rain ♦ threat of the sword ♦ under the threat of ♦ under threat of ♦ unintentional threat ♦ unseen threat. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "threat": threat-dangerhero, threat-dismissal, threat-oriented, threat-oriented munitions, threat-stare, threat-that-was.
	Ending with "threat": bomb-threat, counter-threat, death-threat, fast-threat, noise-as-threat, public-order-threat, stare-threat, under-threat.
	Containing "threat": deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation, under-threat-of-closure.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Threat

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
minor threat	337	network security threat	19
global threat	99	terrorist threat	18
dsl maximize minimize mobile prepaid revenue services threat using	91	prince triple threat graphite	18
threat	84	minor tab threat	16
lyrics minor threat	66	threat management	15
matrix threat	65	bomb threat procedure	14
security threat	53	threat detection	14
threat assessment	50	dirty girl threat	14
bomb threat	44	threat to coral reef	13
triple threat	44	threat prevention	12
film threat	44	suppression threat	12
online security threat	43	rick threat	12
level threat	34	prince triple threat	12
global lyrics threat	34	threat x2	12
agency defense reduction threat	33	assessment pdf threat	11
death threat	32	virus threat	11
defense internet threat	29	prince triple threat hornet	11
detection internet threat	28	terroristic threat	10
enterprise management security threat	28	terrorist texas threat	10
online threat	22	american child dangerous most polio since threat	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Threat

Language		Translations for "threat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		dreigement (menace), bedreiging (menace). (various references)

Albanian		kërcënim (blackmail, chantage, commination, denouncement, imminence, intimidation, menace, saltation, threatening). (various references)

Arabic		‏وعيد (bluster, menace), ‏تهديد (bluster, intimidation, menace), ‏التهديد (impendence). (various references)

Bulgarian		опасност (danger, fear, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, shoal), заплаха (danger, imminence, impendence, menace, thunderbolt). (various references)

Chinese		威胁 (Cowed, Cowing, menace, threaten, threatened, threatening). (various references)

Czech		výhrùžka (menace), pohrùžka, ohrožení (jeopardy), hrozba (imminence). (various references)

Danish		trussel (menace). (various references)

Dutch		bedreiging (menace), dreiging (menace), dreigement (menace). (various references)

Esperanto		minaco (menace). (various references)

Farsi		تهدیدکردن (Menace, Overhang), تهدید (Blackmail, Menace), ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Cow, Daunt, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Spook, Tremble). (various references)

Finnish		uhka (defiance, hazard, menace, risk, spite). (various references)

French		menace (threats). (various references)

Frisian		drigemint (menace), bedriging (menace). (various references)

German		Drohung (menace, shadow), Bedrohung (danger, menace, shadow, threatening). (various references)

Greek		απειλή (duress, menace, threatening). (various references)

Hebrew		איום (awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fell, frightful, grim, hideous, intimidation, menace, terrible, terrific), סכנה (danger, hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril). (various references)

Hungarian		fenyegetés (boast, intimidation, menace). (various references)

Indonesian		gertakan (bluff, intimidation, snapping, snarling), gertak (snapping, threaten), ancaman (menace), ancam. (various references)

Irish		bagairt. (various references)

Italian		minaccia (menace). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脅迫 (coercion, menace, terrorism), 脅かし , 脅威 (menace). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おどかし, おどし, きょうかつ (blackmail, intimidation, menace), きょうかく (chest, chivalrous person, intimidation, self-styled humanitarian, thorax), きょうい (Board of Education, chest measurement, emphasis, menace, miracle, wonder), きょうはく (coercion, compelling, menace, terrorism, using duress), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), ひょう (a council, bag counter, bale, ballot, chart, commentary, criticism, hail, label, lean on, leopard, lie heavy, list, panther, recline on, sack, sign, straw bag, table, ticket), どうかつ (bluster, intimidation), いかく (menace), ごう (a little, actions committed in a former life, air-raid shelter, be proud, Buddhist karma, dugout, fine feathers, go, issue, long ages, moat, number, trench, writing brush), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather). (various references)

Korean		협박. (various references)

Manx		baggyrtys (aggressiveness, bluff), baggyrt (caution, forebode, fulminate, impend, threaten). (various references)

Papiamen		amenasa (menace). (various references)

Pig Latin		eatthray

Portuguese		ameaça (impendent, intimidation, menace). (various references)

Romanian		ameninţare (commination, menace, threatening). (various references)

Russian		угроза (commination, danger, fulmination, imminence, menace). (various references)

Scottish		mùiseag (a threat), bagradh (v.n. threatening; a threat), bagairt (v.n. threatening; a threat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pretnja (assault, menace). (various references)

Spanish		amenaza (assault, menace, threatens), conminación (menace). (various references)

Swedish		hot (impendence, menace), hotelse (menace). (various references)

Thai		การคุกคาม. (various references)

Turkish		tehlike (danger, distress, emergency, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, shoal, storm cloud), tehdit (danger, intimidation, jawbone, menace, threatening), korkutma (frightening, intimidation, terrorization, turn), gözdağı (intimidation), adak (oblation, offer, offering, vow). (various references)

Turkmen		haяbat (menace). (various references)

Ukranian		небепека, загроза (danger, impendence, menace). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đe doạ lời đe doạ, lời hăm doạ. (various references)

Welsh		bygwth (menace, threaten). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Threat

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nobe, nube, nubem, nubes, nubibus, nubicula, nubis, nubium, nubs. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	beot, feorhbealo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Threat

Derivations
	Words beginning with "threat": threated, threaten, threatened, threatener, threateners, threatening, threateningly, threatens, threating, threats. (additional references)
	Words ending with "threat": counterthreat. (additional references)
	Words containing "threat": counterthreats, nonthreatening, unthreatening. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Threat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thcream, theat, theata, theet, thera, theran, theret, thrae, thrait, thrant, threa, threalt, threath, threlt, thret, threth, thria, thrit, throath, treart. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Threat"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "threat" (pronounced thre"t)
3	-r e" t	fret, regret, Ret.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Threat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: hatter.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: earth, hater, heart, rathe, tater, tetra, theta, treat.
	-2 letters: eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, rate, rath, rhea, tahr, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, teth, thae, that, tret.
	-3 letters: are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, rat, ret, tae, tar, tat, tea, tet, the.
	-4 letters: ae.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: chatter, hatters, ratchet, shatter, theater, theatre, thereat, threats.
	+2 letters: attacher, catheter, chatters, chattery, chattier, earthnut, earthset, farthest, hatteria, ratchets, reattach, retaught, rheostat, shatters, tetrarch, thatcher, theaters, theatres, theatric, theocrat, threated, threaten, throated, thwarted, thwarter, trachyte.
	+3 letters: aftermath, anorthite, architect, athrocyte, attachers, bathwater, betrothal, birthdate, birthrate, catheters, charlotte, chattered, chatterer, clathrate, deathtrap, earthiest, earthnuts, earthsets, earthstar, entrechat, hatterias, heartbeat, heartfelt, heartiest, hesitater, hortative, larghetto, northeast, ratcheted, rheostats, shattered, tetrarchs, tetrarchy, thatchers, thatchier, theatrics, theocrats, therapist, threatens, threating, throatier, thwarters, tracheate, trachytes, trashiest, trenchant, ultraheat, wrathiest.
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.