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"CELTS" is a plural of: celt. |
Date "CELTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Celts (The), or The Kelts. This family of nations includes the Irish, Erse, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Low Bretons. According to historic fable, Celtina was the daughter of Britannus. She had a son by Hercules, named Celtus, the progenitor of the Celts. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: CELTS |
| English words defined with "CELTS": Beltane ♦ Celtiberian, Celtic, Celtic deity, Celticism, Celticize ♦ druid ♦ Erse ♦ Gaelic, Goidelic ♦ Trilithon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CELTS": Ages ♦ Flint Jack ♦ Gaels ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Wans Dyke. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Celts (1987) | |
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Economic History | Iceland | Ethnic group: Homogenous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts. (references) |
Iceland | Most Icelanders are descendants of Norwegian settlers and Celts from the British Isles, and the population is remarkably homogeneous. (references) | |
Ireland | The Celts, or Gaels, and their more numerous predecessors divided into five kingdoms in which, despite constant strife, a rich culture flourished. (references) | |
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| "CELTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "CELTS" is used about 138 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 (plural) | 98.55% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 138 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CELTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | kelter. (various references) | |
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"CELTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acelt, Celos, Celta, cetls, Cielos, Clett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CELTS" (pronounced se"lts or ke"lts) |
| 4 | -e" l t s | belts, felts, melts, pelts, speltz. |
| 3 | -l t s | adults, assaults, basalts, bolts, catapults, colts, consults, cults, defaults, exalts, exults, faults, gilts, halts, Hilts, holts, insults, jolts, kilts, malts, quilts, results, revolts, salts, schmaltz, seatbelts, somersaults, stilts, tilts, vaults, volts, waltz, Wilts. |
| 4 | -e" l t s | belts, felts, melts, pelts, speltz. |
| 3 | -l t s | adults, assaults, basalts, bolts, catapults, colts, consults, cults, defaults, exalts, exults, faults, gilts, halts, Hilts, holts, insults, jolts, kilts, malts, quilts, results, revolts, salts, schmaltz, seatbelts, somersaults, stilts, tilts, vaults, volts, waltz, Wilts. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cels, celt, lest, lets, sect, tels. | |
-2 letters: cel, els, let, sec, sel, set, tel. | |
-3 letters: el, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: castle, cleats, clefts, closet, culets, eclats, elects, select, stelic. | |
+2 letters: acetals, acetyls, cablets, callets, calmest, camlets, cantles, caplets, cartels, castled, castles, celesta, celeste, cellist, centals, chalets, citoles, clarets, clients, closest, closets, clothes, cluster, clyster, coldest, collets, colters, coolest, corslet, costrel, crestal, cullets, cutlers, cutlets, cuttles, delicts, dulcets, elastic, elicits, laciest, lactase, lactose, lancets, latches, latices, lectins, lectors, letches, locates, lockets, luetics, ocelots, placets, relicts, relucts, satchel, scarlet, scuttle, sectile, selects, stencil, stickle, sulcate, tackles, talcose, tercels, tickles. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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