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Definition: BLATTER |
BLATTERIntransitive verb1. To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. |
Date "BLATTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Note: Blatter \Blat"ter\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Blattered.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BLATTER |
| English words defined with "BLATTER": Blattered. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLATTER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLATTER" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BLATTER" 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 |
| Blatter | Last name | 300 | 24,895 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
blatter infection | 19 |
blatter | 17 |
blatter gall | 17 |
blatter gaul | 4 |
blatter gull | 4 |
blatter infection symptom | 4 |
blatter cancer | 3 |
blatter gal | 3 |
attack blatter gall | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLATTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | sercegés (crepitation, jar, jarring, mush, scratch, sputter), ropogás (crack, crackle, rustling), kotyogás (blat, chuck, cluck, clucking, gurgle, hammering, ping, slack), kopogás (clattering, clop, jarring, knock, knocking, ping, pit-a-pat, rapping, spatter, splatter, tattoo), kattogás (clack, crack, thump, ticking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atterblay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLATTER": blattered, blattering, blatters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLATTER" (pronounced bla"ter) |
| 4 | -l a" t er | clatter, flatter, latter, platter, splatter. |
| 3 | -a" t er | attar, batter, chatter, fatter, hatter, matter, natter, patter, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, Tatar, tatter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: battler, brattle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: batter, battle, labret, latter, rattle, tablet. | |
-2 letters: abler, alert, alter, artel, baler, betta, blare, blate, blear, bleat, later, latte, ratel, taber, table, taler, tater, tetra, treat. | |
-3 letters: abet, able, bale, bare, bate, batt, bear, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, brae, brat, earl, late, lear, rale, rate, real, tael, tale, tare, tart, tate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: battlers, blatters, bractlet, brattled, brattles, rebuttal, titrable. | |
+2 letters: betrothal, blattered, bractlets, litterbag, prebattle, rebuttals, rotatable, tablature, tractable, treatable, tribulate, trilobate, trustable, turntable, utterable. | |
+3 letters: betrothals, blattering, butterball, litterbags, obliterate, rebuttable, remittable, resettable, tablatures, targetable, tetherball, titratable, tribulated, tribulates, triturable, turntables, turtleback, wattlebird. | |
+4 letters: battlefront, bipartitely, breastplate, bristletail, brutalities, butterballs, entablature, extractable, footlambert, forgettable, intertribal, intractable, obliterated, obliterates, obliterator, obstetrical, rattlebrain, regrettable, regrettably, rentability, restartable, retractable, stretchable, subliterate, tetherballs, trabeculate, tuberculate, turtlebacks, unutterable, unutterably, wattlebirds. | |
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