STRIGIL

Definition: STRIGIL

STRIGIL

Noun

1. An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "STRIGIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Etymology: Strigil \Strig"il\, noun. [Latin expression strigilis, from stringere to graze, scrape.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: STRIGIL

Etymologies containing "STRIGIL": Strigose. (references)

"STRIGIL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STRIGIL" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

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.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	strigilis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "STRIGIL": strigils. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "STRIGIL" (pronounced 'Strig"il'): Anil, Apperil, Axil, Bedevil, Bromanil, Bulbil, Chloranil, Civil, Ganil, imperil, Sigil, uncivil, Undevil, Vexil, Vigil. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: gilts, girls, girts, grist, grits, sigil, tirls, trigs.
	-3 letters: gilt, girl, girt, gist, gits, grit, iris, liri, list, lits, rigs, silt, slit, stir, tils, tirl, trig.
	-4 letters: git, its, lis, lit, rig, sir, sit, sri, til, tis.
	-5 letters: is, it, li, si, ti.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: strigils.
	+2 letters: bristling, firstling, glairiest, grisliest, gristlier, gristmill, liturgics, liturgies, liturgist, relisting, ringtails, sightlier, stripling, triflings, trilogies.
	+3 letters: argillites, blistering, firelights, firstlings, glistering, gristliest, gristmills, grizzliest, laryngitis, legerities, leistering, litigators, liturgists, plagiarist, regalities, retailings, slithering, springtail, stirringly, strickling, strikingly, striplings, tailorings, tigerishly, trellising, virologist, wriggliest.
	+4 letters: blitzkriegs, brutalising, cartelising, cloistering, fragilities, frugalities, garrulities, gracilities, gristliness, hairstyling, iridologist, madrigalist, magisterial, millwrights, misaltering, misrelating, multigrains, plagiarists, plaistering, radiologist, reenlisting, regionalist, religionist, religiosity, resplitting, singularity, splintering, sprightlier, springtails, sterilizing, thimblerigs, trailerings, tribologies, tribologist, trigeminals, unsightlier, virginalist, virologists, vulgarities.
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