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greatcoat

noun

greatcoat is spelled G-R-E-A-T-C-O-A-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, greatcoat means “A heavy overcoat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of greatcoat is greatcoats.

How many letters and syllables are in greatcoat?

Letters9: G-R-E-A-T-C-O-A-T
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is greatcoat?

Greatcoat appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce greatcoat?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-greatcoat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of greatcoat

  • greatcoats plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does greatcoat mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A heavy overcoat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Greatcoat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense heavy overcoat:

LanguageWords
Frenchpardessus, paletot, capote
GermanWintermantel
Portuguesesobretudo
Spanishsobretodo, gabán, abrigo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does greatcoat come from?

From great + coat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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