skittles

1. 1.

   a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins

   Synonymsninepins

   Broaderbowling

Other forms of skittles

plural

skittleses·

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 skittles

What does skittles mean?

skittles means "a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins".

How many syllables are in skittles?

skittles has 2 syllables: skitt-les. The stress falls on "skitt". In IPA it is /ˈskɪtəlz/.

What is another word for skittles?

Close synonyms include ninepins. 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 skittles a common word?

skittles is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.