Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trench-coated

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: trench--coat-ed
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing a trench coat.

Example Sentences

"A trench-coated police detective (Fred Ward) comes to a suburban house to interrogate a single mother (Suzy Amis) on the disappearance of her two young children."
"Maher, too, said athletes at Columbine routinely teased the trench-coated students, muttering "Goth" every time they passed one another in the hallways."
"And nearby is another illustration, a sinister scene of a pistol-wielding character in the foreground and a trench-coated figure behind him under the title "The House on 92d Street.""

Etymology

From trench coat + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: trench coat

Inflected Forms

trenchcoated (alternative)

Questions

What does trench-coated mean?: Wearing a trench coat.
Where does trench-coated come from?: From trench coat + -ed.

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