candlepins

1. 1.

   a bowling game using slender bowling pins

   Synonymscandlepin bowling

   Broaderbowling

Other forms of candlepins

plural

candlepinses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about candlepins

What does candlepins mean?

candlepins means "a bowling game using slender bowling pins".

How many syllables are in candlepins?

candlepins has 3 syllables: cand-le-pins. The stress falls on "cand".

What is another word for candlepins?

Close synonyms include candlepin bowling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candlepins a common word?

candlepins is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.