Welterweight

Definitions: Welterweight

Welterweight

Adjective

1. Of a weight class of 135-147 lbs for boxers; "the welterweight championship".

Noun

1. A weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeple chase or hurdle race).

2. A wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds.

3. A boxer who weighs no more than 147 pounds.

Crosswords: Welterweight

English words defined with "welterweight": junior welterweight ♦ Ray Robinson, Robinson ♦ Sugar Ray Robinson ♦ Walker Smith. (references)

"Welterweight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.11% of the time. "Welterweight" is used about 53 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)	98.11%	52	47,145
Noun (proper)	1.89%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

Expressions using "welterweight": heavy welterweight ♦ junior welterweight. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "welterweight": light-welterweight.
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.

Language		Translations for "welterweight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		peshë e lehtë (lightness, lightweight). (various references)

Bulgarian		борец от полусредна категория, боксьор от полусредна категория. (various references)

Chinese		重量级骑师. (various references)

Farsi		سبک وزن(کمتراز741پوند). (various references)

Finnish		välisarja. (various references)

Greek		πυγμάχοσ μεταξύ ελαφρού και μέτριου βάρουσ. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ライトウエルター級 (light beer, light director, light opera, light van, light welterweight, lighthouse, lightning, right-hand), ジュニアウエルター級 (junior college, junior high school, junior style, junior team, junior welterweight). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ライトウエルターきゅう (light welterweight), ジュニアウエルターきゅう (junior welterweight). (various references)

Manx		mark-veih. (various references)

Pig Latin		elterweightway

Russian		добавочный груз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		velter kategorija. (various references)

Swedish		weltervikt. (various references)

Turkish		valter siklet, ek ağırlık, ağır sikletli binici. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "welterweight": welterweights. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "welterweight" (pronounced we"lterwā't)
5	-t er w ā' t	counterweight.
4	-er w ā' t	featherweight, paperweight, underweight.
3	-w ā' t	actuate, antiquate, deadweight, fluctuate, heavyweight, hundredweight, middleweight, perpetuate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-i-l-r-t-t-w-w"
	-4 letters: erewhile, gleetier, weighter, whittler.
	-5 letters: glitter, lighter, relight, retitle, reweigh, teether, tergite, thewier, tighter, tweeter, weigher, wergelt, wheeler, wheelie, whetter, whitter, whittle.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-h-i-l-r-t-t-w-w"
	+1 letter: welterweights.
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