Whiskered

Definition: Whiskered

Whiskered

Adjective

1. Having hair on the cheeks and chin.

Date "whiskered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Synonyms: Whiskered

Synonyms: barbate (adj), bearded (adj), bewhiskered (adj), whiskery (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Whiskered

English words defined with "whiskered": bewhisker ♦ whisker. (references)

"Whiskered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whiskered" is used about 14 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "whiskered": ginger-whiskered, grey-whiskered, side-whiskered, white-whiskered.
	Containing "whiskered": black-whiskered vireo.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "whiskered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me mustaqe (barbate, with moustache), me favorite. (various references)

Arabic		‏مخفوق. (various references)

Bulgarian		с бакенбарди, мустакат (with a mustache). (various references)

Czech		vousatý (bearded, hoary, whiskery, with a mustache). (various references)

Danish		hvidskaegget terne (whiskered tern). (various references)

Dutch		witwangstern (whiskered tern). (various references)

French		qui a une barbe, qui a des moustaches. (various references)

German		mit einem Backenbart. (various references)

Greek		με γενειά. (various references)

Hungarian		pofaszakállas (whiskery). (various references)

Italian		vespertilio mustacchino (whiskered bat), mignattino piombato (whiskered tern). (various references)

Manx		robaigagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		iskeredwhay

Portuguese		que usa suíças, com bigode. (various references)

Romanian		cu mustãţi (moustached). (various references)

Russian		с усами, с бакенбардами. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sa zaliscima. (various references)

Spanish		fumarel cariblanco (whiskered tern). (various references)

Swedish		polisongprydd, med morrhår. (various references)

Turkish		favorili, bıyıklı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Chlidonias hybridus, Myotis mystacinus, RM:pestgarel grisch, RM:vespertil pitschen da barbis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "whiskered": bewhiskered. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "whiskered" (pronounced 'Whisk"ered'): Briered, Claspered, Lepered, Livered, Rivered, Rockered, unconsidered, Unmothered, Wickered. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-k-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: shrewdie, shrieked.
	-2 letters: shirked, shrewed, whisked, whisker.
	-3 letters: desire, dewier, dikers, eiders, heders, heired, hewers, hiders, hikers, reside, reweds, risked, shewed, shewer, shrewd, shriek, shrike, skewed, skewer, weirds, wheres, wished, wisher.
	-4 letters: deers, dekes, diker, dikes, dirks, drees, dreks, dries, eider, esker, ewers, heder, heeds, heirs, herds, heres, hewed, hewer, hider, hides, hiked, hiker.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-i-k-r-s-w"
	+2 letters: bewhiskered, shipwrecked.
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