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"STARLINGS" is a plural of: starling. |
Date "STARLINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A large family of passerine birds consisting of the Old World starling and related birds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STARLINGS |
| English words defined with "STARLINGS": Cassican ♦ family Sturnidae ♦ genus Sturnus ♦ hill myna ♦ meadow lark, mina, minah, Mino bird, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird ♦ pastor ♦ Sturnidae, Sturnoid, Sturnus, subgenus Pastor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Starlings (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | News note: a Seattle man suggests electrical plan to rid city of starlings before Hoover inauguration / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Richberg, it looks like the starlings and I will have to do some collective bargainin' to stick around here!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Birds. Starlings in flight. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "STARLINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STARLINGS" is used about 128 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% | 128 | 28,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "STARLINGS": Old World starlings. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
starlings | 86 |
baby starlings | 9 |
starlings volleyball | 7 |
bird starlings | 7 |
law starlings | 7 |
european starlings | 6 |
get rid starlings | 5 |
starlings trap | 3 |
heart law starlings | 3 |
rid starlings | 3 |
pest starlings | 2 |
pet starlings | 2 |
carson starlings | 2 |
baby feeding starlings | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STARLINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | staere (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | spreeuwen (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | étourneaux (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Stare (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ψαρόνι (starling), ψαρ (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | sturnidi (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | arlingsstay estorninhos (Old World starlings). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sturnidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"STARLINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarling, starings, storlling, stradlings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gastrins, lastings, rassling, saltings, slatings, starling. | |
-2 letters: gastrin, gratins, instals, instars, lasting, ratings, ratlins, salting, santirs, signals, slating, staling, staring, strains, strings. | |
-3 letters: agists, algins, aligns, angsts, argils, assign, gainst, gaslit, giants, glairs, glints, gnarls, grails, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, grists, instal, instar, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, rasing, rating, ratlin, saints, santir, sarins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: generalists, plasterings, springtails, starvelings, stringhalts. | |
+3 letters: everlastings, hairstylings, latchstrings, regionalists, virginalists. | |
+4 letters: crystallising, gastrulations, mineralogists, singularities, slipstreaming, somersaulting, urbanologists. | |
+5 letters: hairsplittings, letterspacings, mistranslating, narratologists, prostaglandins, reestablishing, strangulations, streetwalkings, summersaulting. | |
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