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Definition: Conker |
ConkerNoun1. The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geography | A nodular variety of limestone which is of spongy nature, containing some quantity of clayey and siliceous matter; is found either in layers or blocks or in separate nodules and is termed as " block kankar" or "nodular kankar" respectively. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ConkerSynonyms: buckeye (n), horse chestnut (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Conker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.78% of the time. "Conker" is used about 46 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) | 84.78% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "conker": conker-age, conker-caskets, conker-red. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
conker | 179 | conker through walk | 3 |
conker live uncut | 94 | conker diddy peach | 3 |
bad conker day fur | 40 | conker pic | 3 |
bad cheat conker day fur | 7 | conker live uncut video | 3 |
box conker x | 7 | conker picture | 3 |
cheat conker | 5 | conker game saved | 3 |
conker live trailer uncut | 5 | bad conker day fur poster s | 2 |
conker özlem | 5 | 2 conker | 2 |
conker live | 4 | conker n64 rom | 2 |
conker ozlem | 4 | bad code conker day fur | 2 |
conker rom | 3 | box conker live uncut x | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "conker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koòský kaštan (horse chestnut), jírovec (horse chestnut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Kankar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kunkur (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur), Kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vadgesztenye (horse chestnut, horse-chestnut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | castagna selvatica, kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur), frutto dell'ippocastano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cro cabbil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onkercay kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur). (various references) muñequillo (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur). (various references) kankar (Kankar, Kunkar, Kunkur), hästkastanj (horse chestnut). (various references) atkestanesi (horse chestnut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conker": conkers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reckon. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: crone, krone, ocker, recon. | |
-2 letters: cero, coke, cone, conk, core, cork, corn, keno, kern, kore, neck, nock, once, reck, rock. | |
-3 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, ken, kor, nor, oke, one, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-4 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: conkers, dorneck, knocker, reckons. | |
+2 letters: beckoner, convoker, corncake, dornecks, knockers, monicker, reckoned, reckoner, uncorked. | |
+3 letters: beckoners, cankerous, cockering, convokers, corkiness, corncakes, corncrake, crookneck, donnicker, interlock, misreckon, monickers, reckoners, reckoning, recocking, recooking, recorking, redocking, relocking, rocketing, rockiness, roughneck, schnorkel, unfrocked, workbench. | |
+4 letters: cankerworm, corncrakes, cornerback, cornflakes, cornhusker, crooknecks, defrocking, dominicker, donnickers, interlocks, misreckons, precooking, reckonings, restocking, roughnecks, schnorkels. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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