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"ROOKS" is a plural of: rook. |
Date "ROOKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of rooks, denotes that while your friends are true, they will not afford you the pleasure and contentment for which you long, as your thoughts and tastes will outstrip their humble conception of life. A dead rook, denotes sickness or death in your immediate future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ROOKS |
| English words defined with "ROOKS": caw ♦ order Passeriformes ♦ Passeriformes ♦ rookery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ROOKS": Beer aux Mouches ♦ Plucked Pigeon. (references) |
| "ROOKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.46% of the time. "ROOKS" is used about 96 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 (plural) | 86.46% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.46% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROOKS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rooks | Last name | 2,000 | 5,145 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "ROOKS": Rooks County. 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 |
the rooks | 23 |
chico rooks | 16 |
online rooks | 13 |
pitts rooks | 7 |
rooks county kansas | 7 |
robert rooks | 6 |
revenge rooks | 5 |
ferrara rooks serling | 4 |
gerard rooks | 3 |
sean rooks | 3 |
fibromyalgia rooks | 2 |
pitts poust rooks | 2 |
county fair rooks | 2 |
pitt rooks | 2 |
kimberly lynn rooks | 2 |
county rooks speedway | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROOKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | betrügt (cheats, deceives, defrauds, jockeys, trepans). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ooksray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ROOKS": brooks, crooks, donnybrooks. (additional references) | |
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"ROOKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dooks, frokost, rhoikos, Rikos, Roboski, rok, roki, Rokon, roks, rooc, roogs, rooke, rooky, Rorkes, rourkes, Rouska, Rusko, tooks, trooks, vrook, zooks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ROOKS" (pronounced ruh"ks) |
| 4 | r uh" k s | Brooks, crooks. |
| 3 | -uh" k s | books, chinooks, cooks, hooks, looks, nooks, schnooks, snooks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: kors, rook, sook. | |
-2 letters: kor, kos, ors. | |
-3 letters: or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: brooks, crooks, irokos, karoos, kouros, kroons, strook. | |
+2 letters: bookers, cookers, forsook, hookers, karroos, lookers, rebooks, recooks, relooks, rookies, snooker, stooker. | |
+3 letters: bookrest, brookies, dornocks, eurokous, gorcocks, kotowers, oarlocks, omikrons, outrocks, outworks, oversoak, prebooks, precooks, provokes, rockoons, rockrose, rookiest, rowlocks, sickroom, slopwork, snookers, spookery, spookier, stookers, topworks, workouts, workshop. | |
+4 letters: backrooms, bodyworks, booklores, bookmarks, bookracks, bookrests, bookstore, bookworms, brookites, brooklets, buckaroos, buckeroos, cockcrows, cockhorse, convokers, cookeries, cookwares, corkwoods, coworkers, darkrooms, doorknobs, folklores, footmarks, footworks, foreknows, forelocks, foreshock, forespoke, formworks, frostwork, homeworks, hookworms, hoopskirt, hornbooks, housework, ironworks, jackaroos, jackeroos, kangaroos, karyosome, kenotrons, komondors, kowtowers, markhoors, moorcocks, nonkosher, nonsmoker, onlookers, openworks, overbooks, overcooks, overlooks, oversmoke, oversoaks, overstock, overworks, pinkroots, pokeroots, porkwoods, provokers, reaphooks, roadworks, rockroses, rockworks, rookeries, roorbacks, rootstock, scrapbook, sickrooms, skidproof, slopworks, snakeroot, snookered, stockroom, stonework, storybook, woodlarks, woodworks, woolworks, wordbooks, workboats, workbooks, workboxes, workfolks, workhorse, workhouse, workloads, workrooms, workshops, yearbooks. | |
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