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Definitions: Raffle |
RaffleNoun1. A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money. Verb1. Dispose of in a raffle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raffle" was first used: some time around 1390. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | If you dream of raffling any article, you will fall a victim to speculation. If you are at a church raffle, you will soon find that disappointment is clouding your future. For a young woman, this dream means empty expectations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RaffleSynonym: raffle off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Raffle |
| English words defined with "raffle": raffle off, Raffled, Raffling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Red, you're selling raffle tickets. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Raffle for a Husband (1916) The Dude Raffle (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "Raffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.17% of the time. "Raffle" is used about 278 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) | 93.17% | 259 | 18,370 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.16% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.8% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 1.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 278 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "raffle": raffle off ♦ raffle ticket. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "raffle": raffle-ticket. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
raffle ticket | 421 |
raffle | 120 |
raffle ticket template | 51 |
car raffle | 32 |
raffle drum | 31 |
house raffle | 23 |
raffle ticket sample | 17 |
raffle ticket printing | 14 |
harley raffle | 13 |
auto raffle | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë në lotari, lotari (draw, lottery, sweepstakes). (various references) | |
Arabic | يا نصيب (lottery, sweepstakes), سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, offal, rubbish, stuff, tat, trash, write off), إشترك في بيع اليانصيب, باع اليانصيب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | участвувам в томбола, смет (dirt, dust, litter, mullock, offal, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings), разигравам в томбола, томбола (draw, tombola), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste), парцалаци (rags, tatters). (various references) | |
Czech | tombola (lucky dip), loterie (lottery, lotto). (various references) | |
Danish | lotteri (game of loto, game of lotto, lottery). (various references) | |
Dutch | verloting (lottery). (various references) | |
Esperanto | loterio (lottery). (various references) | |
Faeroese | happadráttur (lottery). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی بازی قدیمی , لاتار, بخت ازماءی کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | arvonta (dra, lottery). (various references) | |
French | tombola. (various references) | |
German | Tombola (lottery, ruffle, tombola), verlosen (allot, draw, raffle off). (various references) | |
Greek | εκκύβευση, εκκυβεύω, λότοσ, λαχνόσ (lottery ticket), λαχείο (lottery, lottery ticket), λοταρία (bingo, lottery). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"'ריל (ballot, cast lots, draw), ת'רולת (lottery), פיס (ballot, draw, lot, lottery), "'רל" (lottery, toss). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tombola (lottery, lotto, tombola), sorsjáték (draw, lottery). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tombóla (lottery), hlutavelta (lottery). (various references) | |
Italian | riffa, lotteria (lottery, sweepstake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抽選 (drawing, lottery). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうせ" (drawing, lottery). (various references) | |
Malay | loteri (lottery), lotere (lottery). (various references) | |
Manx | cur ayns cronchor, cronchor (lot, lottery, sweepstake). (various references) | |
Papiamen | loteria (lottery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rifa (lottery), loteria (lottery). (various references) | |
Romanian | tombolã (tombola), pune obiecte la loterie, loterie (draw, lottery), juca la loterie. (various references) | |
Russian | разыгрывать в лотерее, лотерея (draw, lottery, sweepstakes). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | starež, lutrija (draw, lottery), bacati kocku. (various references) | |
Spanish | sorteo (ballot, choose by lot, draw, draw by lot, drawing, drawing by lot, lot, lottery, sortition, toss up), sortear (ballot, draw, toss), rifa (lottery). (various references) | |
Sranan | lotrey (lottery). (various references) | |
Swedish | tombola (tombola). (various references) | |
Thai | ให้รางวัล"้วยการจับฉลาก, ขยะมูลฝอย. (various references) | |
Turkish | piyangoya koymak (put in the lottery, raffle off), piyango çekmek, piyango (lottery, sweepstake, sweepstakes), píyango (lottery), eşya piyangosu, çekilişe katılmak, çekiliş (draw, drawings, sweepstake, sweepstakes). (various references) | |
Ukranian | сміття (garbage, mullock, ordure, waste), смітник (dump, kitchen-maiden, scrap heap, scrapyard, sump), розігрувати в лотереї, речова лотерея, гра в кості (dice), брати участь в лотереї, проводити жеребкування, проводити лотерею. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rác rưởi (dross, filth, punk, sullage), cặn bâ, đ" bỏ đi cuộc xổ số. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rafle. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "raffle": raffled, raffler, rafflers, raffles, rafflesia, rafflesias. (additional references) | |
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"Raffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caffell, Criffel, Daffley, Jrfalla, Krafla, Oraflex, Rafal, rafale, rafalo, raffe, Raffeen, raffel, Raffell, rafle, reflew, riffel, ruffler, saffle, yaffle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "raffle" (pronounced ra"ful) |
| 4 | -a" f u l | baffle. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: farfel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-l-r" | |
-1 letter: farle, feral, flare. | |
-2 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, frae, leaf, lear, raff, rale, real. | |
-3 letters: aff, ale, are, arf, ear, eff, elf, era, far, fer, lar, lea, ref. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar, ef, el, er, fa, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-l-r" | |
+1 letter: baffler, farfels, fearful, raffled, raffler, raffles, waffler. | |
+2 letters: bafflers, farfalle, rafflers, sclaffer, taffarel, tafferel, wafflers. | |
+3 letters: afterlife, falsifier, farfalles, fearfully, fieldfare, rafflesia, safflower, sclaffers, taffarels, tafferels. | |
+4 letters: afferently, affirmable, affordable, falsifiers, fearfuller, fieldfares, flameproof, foamflower, rafflesias, safflowers, sufferable, sufferably. | |
+5 letters: cliffhanger, faultfinder, fearfullest, fearfulness, flameproofs, flimflammer, foamflowers, forfeitable, trafficable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 66 66 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- ..-. ..-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a f f l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0066 0066 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526772727871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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