Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fur-coated

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: fur--coat-ed
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing a fur coat.

Example Sentences

"Higher and higher came the head, a long, heavy, fur-coated body rose, now half, now three fourths out of the water."
"I always found it extremely difficult to believe that this somewhat regal, fur-coated lady walking around Beverly Hills could have been married to Malcolm Lowry and lived for years with him in a shack."
"We worked our way through the throng of fur-coated women and little girls dressed in their Christmas best red velvet frocks and patent leather Mary Janes, all of them waiting to enter the fairyland-looking Palm Court."

Etymology

From fur coat + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fur coat

Inflected Forms

furcoated (alternative)

Questions

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

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