Ninepins

Definition: Ninepins

Ninepins

Noun

1. Bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins.

Date "ninepins" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you play ninepins, denotes that you are foolishly wasting your energy and opportunities. You should be careful in the selection of companions. All phases of this dream are bad. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Ninepins

Synonym: skittles (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain, American bowls; tenpins, tivoli.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ninepins

English words defined with "ninepins": Closh ♦ Kayles, Keels, Kettle pins ♦ ninepin, ninepin ball ♦ skittle, skittle ball, skittle pin. (references)

"Ninepins" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Ninepins" is used about 7 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
Noun (plural)	85.71%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Expression using "ninepins": go down like ninepins. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "ninepins"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		birili (skittles, tenpins). (various references)

Bulgarian		кегли. (various references)

Czech		kuželky (skittles). (various references)

French		jeu de quilles. (various references)

German		kegeln (bowl, play at skittles, play skittles, skittles, to bowl), Kegel (beam, cone, cones, ninepin, pin, skittle, taper, taper hole, taper ratio, tenpin). (various references)

Greek		κώνοι, τσούνια (tenpins). (various references)

Hungarian		kugli (tenpins). (various references)

Italian		birilli. (various references)

Pig Latin		inepinsnay

Portuguese		falconete (falconry). (various references)

Romanian		popic (skittle). (various references)

Russian		кегли (bowl, bowling, duckpins, skittles, tenpins). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kuglanje (bowling), kegle. (various references)

Spanish		juego de bolos (bowling, skittles, tenpins), bolos (bowling, bowls). (various references)

Swedish		kägelspel (skittles, tenpins). (various references)

Turkish		kiy oyunu (tenpin), dokuz kuka oyunu (bowl, bowling, skittles). (various references)

Ukranian		кеглі (tenpins). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Ninepins" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nanpean. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ninepins" (pronounced 'Nine"pins'): tenpins. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-n-n-p-s"
	-1 letter: ninepin, ninnies, pinnies.
	-2 letters: pennis.
	-3 letters: nines, nisei, peins, penis, penni, pines, snipe, spine.
	-4 letters: inns, nine, nips, nisi, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, sine, sipe, snip, spin.
	-5 letters: ens, inn, ins, nip, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, psi, sei, sen, sin, sip.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-n-n-p-s"
	+2 letters: mispenning, pensioning.
	+3 letters: innerspring, picaninnies.
	+4 letters: antispending, pickaninnies.
	+5 letters: nondeposition, pretensioning, underpinnings, unnilpentiums.
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