Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Windowsill |
WindowsillNoun1. The sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "windowsill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Crosswords: Windowsill |
| English words defined with "windowsill": window box. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "windowsill": apron wall. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Against a windowsill (The Death Of Suzzy Roche; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mr. Neil Simon, author, sitting on windowsill at home pouring over a script of play he wrote / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Al Ravenna.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |  |
| "City Flowers" by Jaime Krayger Commentary: "3 bright red flowering plants sitting in an office building's windowsill with a backdrop of NY cityscape." | "Glass orb" by Sara Hoffman Commentary: "On a windowsill." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Windowsill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "Windowsill" is used about 101 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) | 99.01% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.99% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
windowsill | 6 |
windowsill herb garden | 2 |
windowsill bouquet poster | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "windowsill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prag dritareje. (various references) | |
Chinese | 窗台. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אדן החלון (ledge, sill). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ablakpárkány (sill, stool, window sill). (various references) | |
Italian | davanzale (sill, window sill). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indowsillway.(various references) | |
Russian | подоконник (sill, window sill, window-sill). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prozorska daska, daska na prozoru. (various references) | |
Spanish | antepecho (ledge), alféizar de ventana (sill). (various references) | |
Swedish | fönsterbräde (ledge, sill), fönsterbleck. (various references) | |
Turkish | pencere kenarı, pencere eşiği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | підвіконня (sole). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "windowsill": windowsills. (additional references) | |
| |
"Windowsill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: windowssill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-w-w" | |
-3 letters: willows, windows. | |
-4 letters: disown, indols, indows, iodins, solidi, widows, willow, window. | |
-5 letters: dills, diols, dolls, downs, idols, indol, indow, iodin, lidos, linos, lions, loins, nills, noils, sloid, soldi, solid, swill, widow, wilds, wills, winds, winos, wolds. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-w-w" | |
+1 letter: windowsills. | |
+2 letters: wildfowlings. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
