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Definition: Tenpin |
TenpinNoun1. One of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenpin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Crosswords: Tenpin |
| English words defined with "tenpin": duckpin, duckpins ♦ split ♦ tenpin bowling. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tenpin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tenpin" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tenpin": tenpin bowling. 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 |
tenpin bowling | 54 |
tenpin | 10 |
canadian federation tenpin | 6 |
bowling game tenpin | 4 |
bowling clip tenpin | 2 |
bowling download free tenpin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenpin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кегла (pin, skittle, skittle-pin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بازی بولینگ ده میله ای . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quille (tenpins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kegel (beam, cone, cones, ninepin, ninepins, pin, skittle, taper, taper hole, taper ratio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tekebábu (bowling pin, pin, skittle), kuglibábu (ninepin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enpintay кегля (kingpin, pin, skittle). (various references) kägla (cone, ninepin, pin, skittle), bowlkägla. (various references) on kuka, kiy oyunu (ninepins), bovling (bowling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tenpin": tenpins. (additional references) | |
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"Tenpin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benappi, tempen, tenain, tenpot, tensin, tenupin, tepin, terpen, Toupin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: inept, penni. | |
-2 letters: nine, nite, pein, pent, pine, pint, tine. | |
-3 letters: inn, net, nip, nit, pen, pet, pie, pin, pit, ten, tie, tin, tip. | |
-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pinnate, pontine, tenpins. | |
+2 letters: endpoint, penitent, penpoint, pinnated, pointmen, punniest. | |
+3 letters: bipinnate, endpoints, entropion, impendent, inaptness, incepting, inception, incipient, ineptness, inpatient, neptunium, newsprint, nilpotent, nonpoetic, panettoni, parenting, patenting, penitence, penitents, penpoints, pertinent, phenytoin, pinnately, prenotion, prominent, repenting, spinneret, unpainted. | |
+4 letters: antependia, antilepton, antipodean, antipyrine, bepainting, centupling, conception, depainting, dipnetting, embonpoint, encrypting, encryption, entrapping, entropions, explanting, expunction, impenitent, impregnant, inapparent, inceptions, inpatients, inspecting, inspection, internship, interplant, interpoint, knifepoint, naphthenic, neptuniums, newsprints, nonprotein, nonreceipt, omnipotent, pancreatin, pangenetic, parentings, partnering, patterning, pendentive, penitences, penitently, pentatonic, pertaining, pertinence, pertinency, petnapping, phenacetin, phenytoins, pigmenting, pinpointed, pliantness, portending, precenting, preeminent, prenotions, prenticing, presenting, pretending, pretension, preuniting, prevenient, preventing, prevention, protending, punishment, repainting, replanting, reprinting, septennial, serpentine, spinnerets, steepening, trepanning, trephining, tripinnate, turpentine, unpedantic, unstepping. | |
+5 letters: aminopterin, antenuptial, antependium, antileptons, antiphonies, antipodeans, antipyrines, appointment, bicomponent, bipinnately, conceptions, copingstone, elephantine, embonpoints, encryptions, enrapturing, explanation, exponential, expunctions, fingerprint, hyphenating, hyphenation, hypotension, impenitence, impermanent, impertinent, impingement, impoundment, impregnants, inappetence, inaptnesses, incipiently, incompetent, independent, ineptnesses, inexpedient, inopportune, inspections, interdepend, interloping, internships, interplants, interpoints, interposing, knifepoints, needlepoint, nephelinite, nonadaptive, nondescript, nonemphatic, nonoperatic, nonphonetic, nonpunitive, nonreceipts, nuncupative, omnipotence, omnipotents, omnipresent, opinionated, outpreening, outspending, pancreatins, patternings, pectination, pendentives, penetrating, penetration, penitential, pennyweight, pentamidine, pentazocine, pentlandite, perennating, perennation, personating, personation, pertinences, pertinently, petitioning, phenacetins, phonetician, piquantness, plenipotent, pneumonitis, pointedness, posttension, postweaning, predominant, preenacting, preignition, premonition, premunition, prenominate, preplanting, preprinting, presentient, pretensions, pretraining, preventions, prominently, punishments, septentrion, serpentines, spinnerette, splintering, spontaneity, stenotyping, superintend, supernation, telephoning, transalpine, trapnesting, trepanation, truepennies, trypsinogen, turpentined, turpentines, uncaptioned, uninspected, uniparental, unprintable. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 70 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. .--. .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01110000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n p i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0070 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547180827580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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