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Definition: Taffeta |
TaffetaNoun1. A crisp smooth lustrous fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "taffeta" was first used: 1340s. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Tightly-woven silk fabric. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A smooth, closely woven fabric in a plain weave. Often weighted to produce its characteristic crispness. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; ice wool; taffeta. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Taffeta |
| English words defined with "taffeta": Court-plaster ♦ taffeta weave. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "taffeta": amoer ♦ changeable taffeta ♦ gros de Tours ♦ iridiscent taffeta ♦ Sandschaki ♦ taffeta cameleon, taffeta Chameleon, taffetas de Florence. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Taffeta" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (taffeta). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Taffeta, darling. (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Taffeta" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Taffeta" is used about 90 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) | 95.56% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Taiwan | Formosa Taffeta Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "taffeta": changeable taffeta ♦ iridiscent taffeta ♦ taffeta cameleon ♦ taffeta Chameleon ♦ taffeta weave. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "taffeta": Tf-taffeta, Tuf-taffeta, tuft-taffeta. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
taffeta | 53 |
silk taffeta | 15 |
taffeta fabric | 13 |
fabric silk taffeta | 7 |
taffeta skirt | 6 |
ribbon taffeta | 5 |
polyester taffeta | 5 |
taffeta dress | 4 |
slip taffeta | 4 |
dupioni fabric silk taffeta | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "taffeta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tafta (tabby). (various references) | |
Arabic | التفتة نسيج حريري رقيق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тафта. (various references) | |
Chinese | "夫绸. (various references) | |
Czech | taft. (various references) | |
Danish | taft. (various references) | |
Dutch | tafzijde. (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه تافته(فارسی است), مجلل+ , خوش مزه (Humorous). (various references) | |
Finnish | tafti. (various references) | |
French | taffetas. (various references) | |
German | Taft. (various references) | |
Greek | ταφετάσ, ταφτάσ, ταφτάς (grosgrain, poult). (various references) | |
Hungarian | taft. (various references) | |
Italian | taffett , taffet . (various references) | |
Manx | taffeta, sheeidey thanney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affetatay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tafetá (Tabby). (various references) | |
Romanian | taftã. (various references) | |
Russian | тафта. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | taft. (various references) | |
Spanish | tafetán (Tabby). (various references) | |
Swedish | taft. (various references) | |
Turkish | tafta. (various references) | |
Ukranian | тафтяний, тафта, виряджений, помпезний (grandiose, pompous, tawdry). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải mỏng (gossamer, gossamery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Persian | 800-Modern | taftah. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taffeta": taffetas. (additional references) | |
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"Taffeta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baffetti, Jaffet, tafeta, tafetta, taffe, taffetta, Tafia, toffana, Tuffieha, twafeaj. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "taffeta" (pronounced ta"futu) |
| 3 | -u t u | automata, balata, capita, stomata. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-t-t" | |
-3 letters: fate, feat, feta, tate, teat, teff. | |
-4 letters: aff, aft, ate, att, eat, eff, eft, eta, fat, fet, tae, tat, tea, tet. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, at, ef, et, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-t-t" | |
+1 letter: taffetas. | |
+4 letters: affectation. | |
+5 letters: affectations, affectionate, quarterstaff. | |
| 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 66 66 65 74 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ..-. ..-. . - .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a f f e t a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0066 0066 0065 0074 0061 |
| 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)54677272718667 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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