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Definition: SAKER |
SAKERNoun1. A small piece of artillery. 2. The peregrine falcon. 3. A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner. |
Date "SAKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Saker A piece of light artillery. The word is borrowed from the saker hawk. (See Falcon .) "The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker, He was the inventor of and maker." Butler: Hudibras, i. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SAKER |
| English words defined with "SAKER": Sacar, Sacre, Saikyr, Sakeret. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SAKER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (guilty, set). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Du ma fa mer a si i saker som er viktige for deg : Hoyre taler din sak, trygger din fremtid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "SAKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAKER" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gratis saker | 8 |
falcon saker | 5 |
roliga saker | 4 |
saker | 4 |
lindsay saker | 3 |
estate real saker | 2 |
saker sex | 2 |
saker sims | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SAKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | بسبب (at, because of, for, inasmuch, of, on account of, owing to, with reason, within reason). (various references) | |
Danish | slagfalk. (various references) | |
Dutch | saker valk. (various references) | |
French | faucon sacré. (various references) | |
German | Würgfalke. (various references) | |
Greek | κυνηγογέρακας. (various references) | |
Italian | falco sacro. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falcão-sacre. (various references) | |
Russian | фальконет. (various references) | |
Spanish | halcón sacre. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | súng đại bác (barker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Falco cherrug. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SAKER": sakers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SAKER": forsaker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SAKER": forsakers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SAKER" (pronounced sā"ker) |
| 3 | -ā" k er | acre, Baker, breaker, faker, Laker, maker, quaker, raker, shaker, taker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asker, eskar, rakes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ares, arks, arse, ears, eras, kaes, keas, rake, rase, sake, sark, sear, sera. | |
-2 letters: are, ark, ars, ask, ear, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, ras, res, sae, sea, ser, ska. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arkose, askers, bakers, brakes, breaks, crakes, creaks, drakes, eskars, fakers, freaks, kaiser, kasher, kebars, lakers, makers, masker, rakees, rakers, resoak, sacker, sakers, screak, shaker, skater, slaker, soaker, strake, streak, takers, wakers, wreaks. | |
+2 letters: arabesk, arkoses, backers, balkers, bankers, barkers, beakers, berakes, calkers, cankers, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darkles, debarks, dekares, demarks, embarks, fakeers, flakers, forsake, gawkers, hackers, hankers, harkens, hawkers, jackers, kaisers, karates, kashers, kauries, kerrias, krakens, kraters, lackers, larkers, leakers, lekvars, markers, markets, maskers, packers, parkers, presoak, quakers, rackers, rackets, rankers, rankest, rankles, remakes, remarks, repacks, reparks, reracks, resoaks, respeak, restack, retacks, retakes, rewakes, sackers, sarkier, screaks, screaky, seamark, shakers, shakier, sharked, sharker, skaters, skiwear, slacker, slakers, smacker, snakier, sneaker, soakers, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, speaker, stacker, stalker, starker, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, swanker, tackers, talkers, tankers, walkers, yakkers. | |
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