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Definition: Sporran |
SporranNoun1. A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sporran" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sporran (Gaelic). The heavy pouch worn in front of the philibeg of a Highlander's kilt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sporran |
| Non-English Usage: "Sporran" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (apron, apron of crab, bursa, burse, purse, sporran). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sporran" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sporran" is used about 12 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) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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 |
sporran | 59 |
scottish sporran | 3 |
pattern sporran | 2 |
making sporran | 2 |
make sporran | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sporran"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qese brezi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bőrerszény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sporran mollagh, sporran Albinagh, sporran (apron, apron of crab, bursa, burse, purse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orranspay кожаная сумка с мехом. (various references) škotska torbica. (various references) skinnpung. (various references) iskoç eteğinin önüne asılan kürk torba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sporran": sporrans. (additional references) | |
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"Sporran" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perran, pokran, psora, Sopron, soran, sparren, spooran, sporan, sporren, sporrin, sporron. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sporran" (pronounced 'Spor"ran'): Brachyuran, Floran, KORAN, Macruran, moneran, Ophiuran, Sonoran, Sovran, Tyran, Varan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-o-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aprons, parson. | |
-2 letters: apron, arson, parrs, porns, praos, proas, roans, roars, sapor, sonar. | |
-3 letters: naos, naps, oars, orra, osar, pans, parr, pars, pons, porn, prao, proa, pros, raps, rasp, roan, roar, snap, soap, soar, sora, sorn, span, spar. | |
-4 letters: ars, asp, nap, nor, nos, oar, ons, ops, ora, ors, pan, par, pas, pro, ran. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-o-p-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: sporrans. | |
+2 letters: pardoners, profaners, pronators, raindrops, transport. | |
+3 letters: copartners, harpooners, inspirator, neurospora, personator, preordains, pretorians, pronatores, prorations, proseminar, transpolar, transports. | |
+4 letters: brainpowers, chairperson, conspirator, coparceners, cotransport, granophyres, inspirators, inspiratory, neurosporas, nonprograms, paranormals, parishioner, paternoster, pawnbrokers, perorations, personators, praetorians, prefrontals, proconsular, procrustean, programings, promenaders, proseminars, prosobranch, prostrating, prostration, reparations, reprobances, respiration, ropedancers, sonographer, springboard, supernormal, transponder, transported, transportee, transporter, wraparounds. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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