REELED

Definition: REELED

REELED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Reel

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REELED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: REELED

English words defined with "REELED": Cappadine ♦ yo-yo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "REELED": crin ♦ fibre rope handling gear, first line ashore equipment * ♦ grege silk ♦ raw silk thread, reel locomotive, reel tender, REELING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ skein reeler, skein winder, strand of silk. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Or was it his in-depth analysis of, uh, uh, Marky Mark that finally reeled you in? (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)
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Domain	Title
Music	Reeled & Skinned [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Rama Geroux, a crew member of a salmon fishing vessel, monitoring gillnet as it is reeled in.Credit: Fisheries.		Figure 20. A Nansen counting pulley - used to determine the length of cable reeled out on an oceanographic station.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This raw silk used in manufacturing parachute cloth and shroud lines was reeled in China or Japan. The operator is removing the covering and checking the weight of a Japanese bale.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"REELED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 89.01% of the time. "REELED" is used about 91 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	89.01%	81	36,835
Lexical Verb (past participle)	10.99%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	91	N/A

Language		Translations for "REELED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		卷 (Coil, Coiling, Reeling, roll, VOL). (various references)

Danish		haspesilke (reeled silk), afhaspet natursilke (reeled silk). (various references)

Dutch		haspelzijde (grège, hard silk, raw silk, reeled silk). (various references)

French		soie en flottes (reeled silk), soie en écheveaux (reeled silk), soie dévidée (reeled silk), soie bobinée (reeled silk). (various references)

German		getaumelt. (various references)

Greek		μετάξι σε κούκλες (reeled silk). (various references)

Indonesian		tergulung (defeated, rolled, wound). (various references)

Korean		감�" (Spooled). (various references)

Pig Latin		eeledray

Portuguese		seda em meadas (reeled silk), seda em bobinas (reeled silk), seda dobada (reeled silk). (various references)

Spanish		seda hilada (reeled silk, spun silk, thrown silk), seda devanada (reeled silk, spooled silk). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "REELED": creeled, streeled, unreeled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"REELED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eelde, erele, erled, Raeleen, realed, Rebelde, Rebeldes, reeed, reeeed, reele, reened, reeped, reeved, reglued, Reidel, rele, Relea, relef, relei, reler, relle, Reole, repled, Reudel, rewelded, riele, Rinelde, roeler, Ruelle, Ryleev. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "REELED" (pronounced rē"ld)
3	-ē" l d	afield, appealed, concealed, congealed, field, healed, heeled, peeled, repealed, resealed, revealed, sealed, shield, unconcealed, unsealed, wheeled, wield, yield.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leered.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-r"
	-1 letter: elder.
	-2 letters: deer, dele, dere, dree, leer, rede, reed, reel.
	-3 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, ere, led, lee, red, ree.
	-4 letters: de, ed, el, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-r"
	+1 letter: bleeder, creeled, fleered, levered, needler, reveled.
	+2 letters: bleeders, cheerled, creneled, deerlike, ferreled, kerneled, laveered, lechered, lettered, needlers, peltered, rebelled, reedlike, refelled, reflexed, refueled, reheeled, released, relented, relieved, remelted, repealed, repelled, repledge, resealed, revealed, revelled, rewelded, streeled, telfered, unreeled, weltered, wheedler.
	+3 letters: belvedere, blesseder, blethered, cheerlead, crenelled, deerflies, delivered, deliverer, developer, elderlies, eldresses, electrode, electroed, everglade, ferrelled, kernelled, leaguered, leathered, leistered, leveraged, pedleries, perplexed, prelected, realtered, reblended, recleaned, redeliver, redevelop, redolence, reelected, reflected, refuelled, regelated, relabeled, relearned, relegated, remodeled, repaneled, repeopled, repleaded, repleader, repledged, repledges, replevied, resembled, resettled, resmelted, respelled, sheltered, skeltered, slenderer, sweltered, telphered, wheedlers.
	+4 letters: bedriveled, beflowered, belvederes, bewildered, calendered, calenderer, celebrated, cheerleads, crenelated, decelerate, deferrable, deflowered, deflowerer, deliberate, deliverers, deliveries, delustered, deregulate, deservedly, desilvered, deterrable, developers, elderberry, electrodes, ensorceled, espaliered, everglades, farewelled, federalese, federalize, fenderless, freeholder, freelanced, freeloaded, freeloader, greenfield, hellbender, lavendered, leaderless, lederhosen, legendries, letterhead, needlework, newsdealer, overleaped, overmelted, peddleries, praelected, preblessed, precleaned, precleared, preelected, redeemable, redelivers, redelivery, redeployed, redevelops, redolences, reemployed, reenlisted, reenrolled, reexpelled, reexplored, refiltered, reflowered, relabelled, relettered, relicensed, relievedly, remediable, remediless, remodelled, renderable, repanelled, repeatedly, repleaders, replevined, rereleased, reschedule, reservedly, resilvered, resoldered, saddletree, silverweed, slenderest, slenderize, teleported, unlettered, unrelieved, unrevealed, wirelessed.
	+5 letters: accelerated, bedrivelled, beleaguered, calenderers, cartwheeled, cheerleader, clearheaded, codeveloper, crenellated, decelerated, decelerates, decelerator, decremental, deerstalker, deferential, deferrables, deflowerers, deleterious, deliberated, deliberates, deliverable, deliverance, deliverymen, denumerable, depreciable, depressible, deregulated, deregulates, desperately, deterrently, disbeliever, effloresced, elderliness, electrified, ensorcelled, eternalized, federaleses, federalized, federalizes, freeholders, freeloaders, freewheeled, generalised, generalized, greenmailed, heldentenor, hellbenders, interdealer, interleaved, intermeddle, launderette, learnedness, leaseholder, legerdemain, letterboxed, letterheads, millidegree, moneylender, needleworks, newsdealers, overcleaned, overcleared, overdevelop, overlearned, overpedaled, overpeopled, overwhelmed, perplexedly, pervertedly, precanceled, predelivery, premedieval, preschedule, preselected, pretendedly, reassembled, rechanneled, recollected, redelivered, redeveloped, redeveloper, reescalated, reevaluated, relacquered, relatedness, relaxedness, reliquefied, replastered, replenished, reregulated, rescheduled, reschedules, resplendent, saddletrees, sepulchered, silverweeds, slenderized, slenderizes, slenderness, sloganeered, superdeluxe, telegrammed, telegraphed, telemetered, undelivered, volunteered.
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