Tatter

Definition: Tatter

Tatter

Noun

1. A small piece of cloth.

Date "tatter" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Tatter

Synonyms: rag (n), shred (n), tag (n), tag end (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Smallness	Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tatter

Etymologies containing "tatter": tatterdemalion. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Tatter Tails (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It reconstructs the purple from the rag and the woman from the tatter.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Tatter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tatter" 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 (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tatter": tatter-edged.
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 "tatter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhele (cast of clothes, rag), rreckë (rag), leckos (rend into rags), leckë (cloth, mop, rag, rags, wiper), fërtele (rags), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزقة (rag, shred, torn piece), ‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏خرقة (cloth, duster, rag, shred). (various references)

Bulgarian		парцал (clout, dishcloth, dishrag, duster, frazzle, rag), дрипа (rag). (various references)

Chinese		碎片 (chip, fragment, splinter), � �布条. (various references)

Farsi		پاره پاره کردن (Analyze, Scalpel), لباس پاره پاره , ژنده پوش (Ragamuffin), تن پوش مندرس , تکه پارچه , تکه تکه شدن , رشته رشته . (various references)

Finnish		riekale (rag, shred). (various references)

French		loque, lambeau. (various references)

German		fetzen (be mind-blowing, frazzle, have a driving beat, rag, ribbon, rip, scrap, scrap torn sheet, shred, smithereens, snatch, tatters, wisp). (various references)

Greek		ράκοσ (rag). (various references)

Hebrew		למרטט (lay bare, pluck wear to shreds), לרפט (fray, wear out), קרע (rag, rift, rupture, schism, shred, snag, tag, tear), סחב�" (rag, swab). (various references)

Hungarian		rongy (clout, piece of linen, rag, shred, snotty). (various references)

Italian		cencio (rag), brandello (rag, shred, smithereens). (various references)

Manx		giubbyl (piece of clothing, rag), fritlag (rag, shred, tattered cloth). (various references)

Pig Latin		attertay.(various references)

Portuguese		trapo (cloth, flitter, frazzle, olden, rag, scrap, shred, wiper), rasgar-se (rip, tear), rasgar (claw, cut up, drag out, gutter, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, Rive, tear), farrapo (flitter, frazzle, old-clothes man, rag, scrap, shred, tag), andrajo (flitter, old-clothes man, rag, scrap). (various references)

Romanian		zdreanţã (rag), petic de hârtie. (various references)

Russian		старьевщик (clothes-man, dealer in old clothes, junkman, old clothesman, old-clothesman, rag-and-bone-man, rag-picker), тряпка (dust rag, duster, milksop, mollycoddle, rag, shred, softy, washcloth, washrag), лохмотья (dud, duds, tatters). (various references)

Scottish		clùdan (clout), cearb (piece, rag). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dronjak (jag, rag, screed). (various references)

Spanish		andrajo (rag, rags). (various references)

Swedish		trasa (cloth, clout, rag, scrap, shred). (various references)

Thai		ผ้าขี้ริ้ว (rag). (various references)

Turkish		paçavra (clout, rag, scrap, scraps, shred, swab), çaput (rag, shoddy). (various references)

Ukranian		ганчірка (clout, rag, wiper), лахміття (frippery, rag), порваний одяг. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tatter": tatterdemalion, tatterdemalions, tattered, tattering, tatters, tattersall, tattersalls. (additional references)
	Words ending with "tatter": betatter. (additional references)
	Words containing "tatter": betattered, betattering, betatters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Attaturk, Attta, tata, tatler, tator, tatten, tatterd, tattke, tattoe, tattow, tawter, Teatre, tette, thater, titrer, tittar, tittir, tlatter, tter, tutta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tatter" (pronounced ta"ter)
4	t a" t er	Tatar.
3	-a" t er	attar, batter, Blatter, chatter, clatter, fatter, flatter, hatter, latter, matter, natter, patter, platter, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, splatter.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-r-t-t-t"
	-1 letter: tater, tetra, treat.
	-2 letters: rate, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tret.
	-3 letters: are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, ret, tae, tar, tat, tea, tet.
	-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-r-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: attrite, stretta, tartest, tartlet, tatters, tattier, tattler, titrate.
	+2 letters: attester, attestor, attrited, atwitter, betatter, rattiest, strettas, tartlets, tartrate, tattered, tattlers, tattooer, terawatt, testator, titrated, titrates, tractate, tristate.
	+3 letters: attesters, attestors, attracted, attribute, betatters, brattiest, butterfat, quartette, reattempt, straitest, tartrates, tattering, tattooers, terawatts, testators, testatrix, tractates, trattorie, treatment, tritiated, triturate, wattmeter.
	+4 letters: aftertaste, antilitter, antimatter, attenuator, attornment, attractive, attributed, attributes, autorotate, betattered, bitartrate, butterfats, featurette, glitterati, interstate, intrastate, littermate, outstarted, protectant, protestant, quartettes, rattletrap, reattempts, retreatant, statecraft, strategist, tattersall, teetotaler, teratomata, tetrameter, thermostat, throatiest, titratable, treatments, triacetate, triathlete, tripartite, triturated, triturates, watertight, wattmeters.
	+5 letters: abstractest, aftertastes, antimatters, antitruster, attenuators, attornments, attractance, attributive, autorotated, autorotates, battlefront, betattering, bitartrates, entreatment, featurettes, interactant, interstates, leatherette, litterateur, littermates, potentiator, protectants, protestants, rattletraps, reattempted, reattribute, restatement, retreatants, scattershot, standpatter, startlement, statecrafts, steamfitter, sternutator, straightest, strategists, tattersalls, teetotalers, teetotaller, testatrices, testatrixes, tetrameters, tetravalent, thermostats, toastmaster, transmitted, transmitter, triacetates, triathletes, whitethroat.
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