skittle

Questions about skittle

What does skittle mean?

skittle means "a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skittle?

skittle has 2 syllables: skit-tle. The stress falls on "skit". In IPA it is /ˈskɪtəl/.

What is another word for skittle?

Close synonyms include ninepin, skittle pin. 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 skittle a common word?

skittle 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.