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Definition: Spiller |
SpillerNoun1. An attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood". 2. A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spiller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references) |
Synonyms: SpillerSynonyms: setline (n), shedder (n), trawl (n), trawl line (n), trotline (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spiller |
| English words defined with "spiller": Bultow ♦ shedder. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spiller" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Norwegian (gambler). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mackerel schooner with pocket or spiller shipped at sea Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Spiller" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiller" is used about 7 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 (proper) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "spiller" 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 |
| Spiller | Last name | 2,000 | 5,143 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
spiller | 70 |
leticia spiller | 12 |
jan spiller | 11 |
spiller mp3 | 8 |
dvd spiller | 7 |
letícia spiller | 6 |
furniture spiller | 5 |
history name spiller | 5 |
dj spiller | 5 |
dr spiller | 4 |
robert spiller | 4 |
claiborne ethelbert spiller | 3 |
groovejet spiller | 3 |
der rock spiller | 3 |
cd spiller | 3 |
matthew spiller | 2 |
david spiller | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spiller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Spiller's type (Spiller type), Spiller-Martin's operation (Spiller-Martin operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | type de Spiller (Spiller type), opération de Spiller-Martin (Spiller-Martin operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Spiller-Typ (Spiller type), Spiller-Martin-Operation (Spiller-Martin operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | χύνων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | operazione di Spiller-Martin (Spiller-Martin operation), mielotomia trasversale (Spiller-Martin operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | deayrteyder (pourer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illerspay tipo de Spiller (Spiller type), operação de spiller-Martin (Spiller-Martin operation). (various references) источник утечки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spiller": spillers. (additional references) | |
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"Spiller" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shiller, Sillar, Siller, skiller, spealler, spellen, spillen, splier, Supalla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spiller" (pronounced spi"ler) |
| 4 | -p i" l er | pillar. |
| 3 | -i" l er | biller, chiller, distiller, driller, filler, Giller, Hiller, killer, Miller, Schiller, Siller, stiller, thriller, tiller, Willer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lisper, perils, pliers, prills, rilles, siller. | |
-2 letters: iller, liers, lisle, peril, peris, piers, piles, pills, plier, plies, pries, prill, prise, riels, riles, rille, rills, ripes, slier, slipe, speil, speir, spell, spiel, spier, spile, spill, spire. | |
-3 letters: ells, ills, ires, isle, leis, lier, lies, lipe, lips, lire, lisp, peri, pier, pies, pile, pill, plie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: perillas, prebills, spillers. | |
+2 letters: callipers, impellers, impellors, overspill, pillagers, pillories, prechills, predrills, spillover, spiralled. | |
+3 letters: aspergilla, aspergilli, espadrille, overspills, pellagrins, perilously, phyllaries, pillarless, pluralizes, preselling, respelling, sailplaner, spillovers, wellspring, willpowers. | |
+4 letters: allopatries, allotropies, aspergillum, aspergillus, capillaries, espadrilles, ipsilateral, leptospiral, multipliers, painkillers, palletizers, parallelism, pelletizers, pellitories, permillages, pluralities, pollenizers, pollinizers, prelusively, pricelessly, repulsively, respellings, sailplaners, spellbinder, spherically, spirituelle, spitefuller, tripletails, ultrasimple, wellsprings. | |
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