Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tails

/teɪlz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: tails
IPA: /teɪlz/

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

Clipping of tailcoat.

Slang

noun

The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.

noun

Tailings; waste.

noun

Tailings, feints.

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

Example Sentences

"So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails."
"Tails, I win."
"The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead[…]"

Usage

Slang

Synonyms

dress suit full dress tailcoat tail coat white tie white tie and tails

Homonyms

tales

Antonyms

heads

Rhymes With

sales details wales fails emails males tales nails scales trails rails whales

Questions

How do you pronounce tails?: The recorded pronunciation is /teɪlz/.
What does tails mean?: plural of tail

How to pronounce tails

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