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Definition: Sweepstake |
SweepstakeNoun1. A lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SweepstakeSynonym: sweepstakes (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sweepstake |
| English words defined with "sweepstake": Swoopstake. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sweepstake": Swoopstake. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sweepstake" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (sweepstakes). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | First Annual International Sweepstake Race, 30 miles, Cincinnati Motor Speedway, Sept. 4, 1916. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Sweepstake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Sweepstake" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "sweepstake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тотализатор (totalizator, totalizer), лотарийно залагане (sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 赌金全赢制 (sweepstakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | celková sázka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | loterie publicitaire (sweep), loterie promotionnelle (sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wettbewerb mit Verlosung (sweep), Werbenwettbewerb mit Verlosung (sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lotteria (lottery, raffle), concorso a sorte (sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 내기 경기 (sweepstakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | leagh roie, cronchor (lot, lottery, raffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepstakesway пари на скачках (sweepstakes). (various references) dobitnik svih uloga. (various references) totalisator (Pari-mutuel, totalizator, totalizer). (various references) piyango (lottery, raffle, sweepstakes), müşterek bahis (sweepstakes, tote-betting), ikramiye (bonus, bounty, gratification, gratuity, perk, perquisite, plum, premium, prize), çekiliş (draw, drawings, raffle, sweepstakes). (various references) тоталізатор (parimutuel, sweepstakes, totalizator, tote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweepstake": sweepstakes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweepstake" (pronounced swē"pstā'k) |
| 4 | -s t ā' k | beefsteak. |
| 3 | -t ā' k | heartache, intake, outtake, overtake, undertake, uptake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-k-p-s-s-t-w" | |
-3 letters: pesetas, pesewas, weakest. | |
-4 letters: etapes, etwees, passee, pastes, peases, peseta, pesewa, pewees, seesaw, skates, skeets, spates, speaks, stakes, stapes, steaks, steeks, steeps, sweats, sweeps, sweets, tawses, teases, tepees, tweaks, wastes. | |
-5 letters: akees, apeek, apses, askew, asset, eases, easts, epees, etape, etwee, keeps, keets, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peaks, pease, peats, peeks, pekes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-k-p-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: sweepstakes. | |
| 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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