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Definitions: Raccoon |
RaccoonNoun1. The fur of the North American racoon. 2. Omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North and Central America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raccoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
Etymology: Raccoon \Rac*coon"\, noun. [French expression raton, prop., little rat, from rat rat, perhaps of German origin. See Rat.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a raccoon, denotes you are being deceived by the friendly appearance of enemies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: RaccoonSynonym: racoon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Raccoon |
| English words defined with "raccoon": Agouara ♦ common raccoon, common racoon, coon, coonskin, coonskin cap, crab-eating raccoon ♦ genus Nyctereutes ♦ Mapach ♦ Nyctereutes, Nyctereutes procyonides ♦ Procyon cancrivorus, Procyon lotor ♦ raccoon dog, Raccoon fox, ringtail ♦ Tanate, Tree bear, Tree oyster ♦ Washing bear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "raccoon": 22701 ♦ Parvovirus, Feline. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "raccoon": Raton. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Raccoon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (raccoon). |
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Screenplays | (narrating) Bizzare murder cases have recently occured in Raccoon City. (Biohazard; writing credit: Christy Marx; Nick Sagan) But this one had a live raccoon inside. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The twittering call of a raccoon sounded near the irrigation ditch and, very far away, the angry howl of a tied dog. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. |
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Health | You should never touch or approach a wild raccoon. (references) | |
I heard a rustle like something going out of my tent and saw a raccoon. (references) | ||
Stay away from areas and materials that might be contaminated by raccoon feces. (references) | ||
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| "Raccoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Raccoon" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "raccoon": common raccoon ♦ raccoon dog ♦ Raccoon Ford ♦ raccoon fox ♦ raccoon oyster ♦ raccoon racoon. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "raccoon": raccoon-hunting. | |
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| 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 |
raccoon | 2,038 |
raccoon decor | 226 |
stuffed raccoon | 153 |
raccoon picture | 92 |
baby raccoon | 72 |
lake raccoon | 45 |
pet raccoon | 40 |
animal raccoon | 39 |
get rid of raccoon | 37 |
raccoon trap | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raccoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rakun. (various references) | |
Arabic | حيوان الراكون, حيوان إمريكي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | миеща мечка (coon, racoon, ringtail). (various references) | |
Czech | mýval (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Danish | vaskebjørn. (various references) | |
Dutch | wasbeer (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
Esperanto | prociono (racoon, washing-bear), lavurso (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
Farsi | راکون(ج.ش.). (various references) | |
Finnish | pesukarhu. (various references) | |
French | raton laveur (racoon). (various references) | |
German | Waschbär (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Greek | ρακούν (racoon), μυϊσκος, προκύων (racoon), προκύον. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mosómedve (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þvottabjörn (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
Irish | racún (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
Italian | procione lavatore (coon, racoon), procione (procyon, racoon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, paddle, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラクーン . (various references) | |
Manx | raccoon. (various references) | |
Maya | kulu'. (various references) | |
Mohawk | atiron. (various references) | |
Papago | wawuk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accoonray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ratinho-lavadeiro, mão-pelada (racoon), guaxinim (racoon). (various references) | |
Russian | енот (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rakun (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Spanish | mapache (coon, raccoons, racoon). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvättbjörn (coon, racoon), sjubb (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
Thai | ตัวแร็คคูน (คล้ายหมีแต่ตัวเล็กและมีหางเป็นพวง), หนังของตัวแร็คคูน (racoon). (various references) | |
Turkish | rakun (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Ukranian | "нот (coon, racoon). (various references) | |
Yucatec | k'ulu' (racoon, washing-bear). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Procyon lotor, RM:urset american. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "raccoon": raccoons. (additional references) | |
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"Raccoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomo, Arcachon, raccon, racion, rackon, rackoon, racoco, racoonn, Raucon, raxon, Riccoboni, Riccobono, Trachodon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "raccoon" (pronounced rakuw"n) |
| 3 | -k uw" n | cocoon, coon, tycoon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: corona, racoon. | |
-2 letters: acorn, cocoa, croon, narco, racon. | |
-3 letters: arco, carn, coca, coco, coon, corn, croc, narc, orca, roan. | |
-4 letters: arc, can, car, con, coo, cor, noo, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, roc. | |
-5 letters: an, ar, na, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: coanchor, coronach, raccoons. | |
+2 letters: accordion, coanchors, concordat, coronachs, monocracy. | |
+3 letters: accordions, coanchored, concordant, concordats, contractor, cornucopia, monocarpic, monocratic, noncaloric. | |
+4 letters: cardiotonic, coanchoring, coarctation, conciliator, concordance, confiscator, conformance, consecrator, contraction, contractors, cornucopian, cornucopias, coruscation, crocodilian, monocracies, neocortical, noncontract, pococurante. | |
+5 letters: accordionist, carbonaceous, cardiotonics, coacervation, coarctations, cocarcinogen, cochairwoman, cochairwomen, communicator, concentrator, conciliators, conciliatory, concordances, concordantly, conductorial, confiscators, confiscatory, conformances, consecration, consecrators, consecratory, contractions, contradictor, contraoctave, correctional, coruscations, crocodilians, cyclopropane, enterococcal, gerontocracy, iconographic, necrological, noncancerous, overcoaching, reoccupation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 63 63 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.-. -.-. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a c c o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0063 0063 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52676969818180 |
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