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Definition: Spillikins |
SpillikinsNoun1. A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Sports & Leisure | Game played with a heap of slips or small rods, the objet being to pull off each by means of a neck without disturbing the rest. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpillikinsSynonym: jackstraws (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Spillikins" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spillikins" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "spillikins"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skrabnaese (jackstraws), mikado (jackstraws). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | knibbelspel (jackstraws). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jeu de jonchets. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mikadospiel (jackstraws). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκαλάκια (jackstraws), ξυλάκια (jackstraws). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giuoco dello sciangai (jackstraws), giuoco dei jonchets (jackstraws), bastoncini (chopsticks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illikinsspay micado (mikado), jogo de "jonchet". (various references) игра в бирюльки. (various references) mikado (jack-straw, jack-straws, mikado, spillikin). (various references) skrapnos (jack-straws). (various references) mikado kemikleri, mikado çöpleri (jackstraws). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-k-l-l-n-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: spilikins, spillikin. | |
-2 letters: spilikin. | |
-4 letters: lipins, plinks, siskin, skills, slinks, spills. | |
-5 letters: kills, kilns, links, lipin, lisps, nills, pikis, pilis, pills, pinks, plink, silks, sills, sinks, skill, skins, skips, slink, slips, snips, spiks, spill, spins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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