Skittle

Definition: Skittle

Skittle

Noun

1. A bowling pin of the type used in ninepins (or (in England) skittles).

Verb

1. Play skittles.

Date "skittle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Synonyms: Skittle

Synonyms: ninepin (n), skittle pin (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Thief	Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Skittle

English words defined with "skittle": skittle alley, skittle ball, skittle pin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "skittle": Public-house Signs. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Skittle Tales (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Feather Cuts & Monkey Boots / Skittle / Right Idea [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Skittle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Skittle" is used about 11 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)	81.82%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	9.09%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Expressions using "skittle": skittle alley ♦ skittle away ♦ skittle ball ♦ skittle out ♦ skittle pin ♦ skittle player. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "skittle": Skittle-dog, skittle-ground, skittle-pin.
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.

Language		Translations for "skittle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lokal ku luhet birili (skittle alley, skittle-ground), harxhoj (consume, dissipate, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, melt, outlay, scatter, skittle away, spend, squander, trifle away, use up). (various references)

Basque		gila. (various references)

Bulgarian		кегла (pin, skittle-pin, tenpin), прахосвам (dilapidate, dissipate, lavish, revel away, squander, throw around, trifle away, waste), пилея (lavish, overspend, potter away, scatter, slather, throw about, throw away, wanton, waste), играя на кегли. (various references)

Czech		kuželka (baluster). (various references)

Danish		kegle (body, cone). (various references)

Dutch		kegel (cone, pin). (various references)

Finnish		keila (pin). (various references)

French		quille. (various references)

German		kegel (beam, cone, cones, ninepin, ninepins, pin, tenpin). (various references)

Greek		κορύνη (indian club), τσούνι. (various references)

Hungarian		tekebábu (bowling pin, pin, tenpin). (various references)

Italian		birillo (cone, pin). (various references)

Manx		skittyl. (various references)

Occitan		quilha. (various references)

Pig Latin		ittleskay

Portuguese		pino de boliche, fito, divertimento (amusement, distraction, enkindle, entertainment, frolic, fun, gambol, game, jollification, merriment, merry making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, sport, treat), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonstone, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom). (various references)

Romanian		popic (ninepins), distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, frolic, fun, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, sport, sporting). (various references)

Russian		кегля (kingpin, pin, tenpin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kuglana (skittle alley, skittle-ground). (various references)

Spanish		bolo (bole, bolus, pin). (various references)

Swedish		kägla (cone, ninepin, pin, tenpin). (various references)

Turkish		kuka (ball of thread, pin), dokuz kuka şişesi. (various references)

Ukrainian		кегля. (various references)

Vietnamese		sân chơi ky (skittle-alley, skittle-ground). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "skittle": skittles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Skittle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sittelle, skintle, skitten, skuttle, skyttel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "skittle" (pronounced ski"tul)
5	-k i" t u l	Kittel, Kittle.
4	-i" t u l	acquittal, belittle, brittle, committal, little, noncommittal, spittle, tittle, transmittal, vittle, Whittle.
3	-t u l	accidental, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, lentil, lintel, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, societal, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, volatile, Wintle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: kittles.
	Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: kittel, kittle, likest, titles.
	-2 letters: islet, istle, kilts, kites, likes, skite, stile, stilt, tikes, tiles, tilts, title.
	-3 letters: elks, ilks, isle, kilt, kist, kite, kits, leis, leks, lest, lets, lies, like, list, lite, lits, sett, sike, silk, silt, site, skit, slit, stet, tels, test, tets, ties, tike, tile, tils, tilt, tits.
	-4 letters: elk, els.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: kittlest, skittles, talkiest.
	+2 letters: klutziest, stalkiest, tinkliest.
	+3 letters: ticketless, trickliest.
	+4 letters: buttermilks, kinetoplast, kittenishly, lickspittle, littlenecks, multitasked, rickettsial.
	+5 letters: blatherskite, kinetoplasts, latticeworks, lickspittles, lockstitched, lockstitches.
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