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"PINKS" is a plural of: pink. |
Date "PINKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Grade of Jamaica bananas. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PINKS |
| English words defined with "PINKS": Caryophyllidae ♦ Dianthus ♦ genus Dianthus ♦ pink, pinkish ♦ subclass Caryophyllidae. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | West and Vokes in A pair of pinks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You inhaled the spicy odour of the pinks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PINKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PINKS" is used about 102 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) | 100% | 102 | 32,309 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PINKS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pinks | Last name | 130 | 61,164 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PINKS": sea-pinks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PINKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | enkelte bananer,bananer enkeltvis,lyserøde bananer (loose grade bananas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | niet verpakte banaan (loose grade bananas), bulkbanaan (loose grade bananas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | fruits séparés, bananes roses, bananes de catégorie loose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Nelken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρποί ελεύθεροι (loose grade bananas), μπανάνες χύμα (loose grade bananas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | banane della categoria sciolta (loose grade bananas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkspay frutos separados (loose grade bananas), bananas da categoria "soltas". (various references) bananos de la categoría sueltos (loose grade bananas), bananas rosas (loose grade bananas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PINKS": firepinks. (additional references) | |
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"PINKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panks, Pencz, penikos, Penske, Penskes, piank, piks, pilks, pinas, pinc, pinck, pinds, pinis, Pinka, Pinkas, pinki, pinkys, pinos, Pinsk, Pinski, Pinsky, pirks, poink, poncs, punkas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PINKS" (pronounced pi"ngks) |
| 4 | -i" ng k s | blinks, brinks, chinks, drinks, finks, inks, jinks, jinx, kinks, links, Lynx, minks, rinks, shrinks, sinks, skinks, sphinx, stinks, thinks, winks. |
| 3 | -ng k s | banks, blanks, bunks, chunks, clunks, cranks, drunks, dunks, flanks, flunks, francs, Franks, funks, Hanks, Hijinks, hunks, hyperlinks, larynx, monks, nasopharynx, phalanx, pharynx, planks, pranks, punks, ranks, shanks, skunks, tanks, thanks, tiddlywinks, trunks, yanks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: inks, kins, kips, nips, pink, pins, sink, skin, skip, snip, spik, spin. | |
-2 letters: ink, ins, kin, kip, nip, pin, pis, psi, sin, sip, ski. | |
-3 letters: in, is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pekins, pinkos, plinks, prinks. | |
+2 letters: inkpots, kidnaps, kinship, kipskin, linkups, napkins, pigskin, pinkens, pinkers, pinkest, pinkeys, pinkies, pinkish, pinkoes, pipkins, punkies, punkins, punkish, pyknics, spiking, spoking, spunkie, sputnik, unpicks, uplinks. | |
+3 letters: backspin, bumpkins, capeskin, duckpins, keepings, kingcups, kingpins, kingpost, kingship, kinships, kipskins, landskip, limpkins, nitpicks, nutpicks, packings, parkings, pickings, pigskins, pinkeyes, pinkings, pinkness, pinworks, plinkers, pokiness, prankish, prinkers, pumpkins, punkiest, pyknosis, ranpikes, shunpike, skelping, skimping, skiplane, skipping, slipknot, spanking, sparking, speaking, specking, spilikin, spooking, sprinkle, spunkier, spunkies, spunkily, spunking, sputniks, stickpin, stinkpot, tankship. | |
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