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| Domain | Definition |
Military & Defense | A Malay or Indonesian dagger often with two scalloped cutting edges. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kriss Romani (1962) | |
Song Titles | Jump (performing artist: Kriss Kross) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "KRISS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KRISS" is used about 17 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 (proper) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KRISS" 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 |
| Kriss | Last name | 400 | 19,099 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "KRISS": kriss kringle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "KRISS": Kriss-kross. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kriss kross | 161 | jump kriss kross lyrics | 4 |
kriss | 40 | biography kriss kross | 4 |
luti kriss | 22 | butterfly knife kriss | 3 |
kriss kross lyrics | 17 | david kriss | 3 |
swiss kriss | 12 | knife kriss | 3 |
kriss kross puzzle | 11 | discography kriss kross | 2 |
kriss kross picture | 8 | happened kriss kross | 2 |
cross kriss | 8 | kriss kros | 2 |
kriss luti lyrics | 7 | kriss laure | 2 |
kriss modenas | 5 | kriss ruth | 2 |
kriss kross pic | 4 | cutlery kriss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "KRISS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kris (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kris (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | kriss (kris), criss (kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Kris (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρις (creese, kris), μαλαϊκό μικρό μαχαίρι (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | kris (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isskray cris (creese, kris). (various references) punal malayo (creese, kris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: risks. | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: irks, kirs, kiss, kris, risk, sirs, skis, sris. | |
-2 letters: irk, kir, sir, sis, ski, sri. | |
-3 letters: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: brisks, frisks, kisser, krises, shirks, skiers, skirls, skirrs, skirts, smirks, stirks. | |
+2 letters: kaisers, kirmess, kissers, riskers, schriks, shikars, shrieks, shrikes, shrinks, sinkers, skivers, spikers, stricks, strikes. | |
+3 letters: asterisk, briskest, briskets, britskas, droskies, friskers, friskets, griskins, kashmirs, keisters, kermises, kiesters, kirsches, klisters, kurtosis, mismarks, redskins, rickshas, rikishas, rikshaws, riskiest, riskless, sarkiest, shickers, shikaris, shikkers, shirkers, skerries, skidders, skimmers, skinkers, skinners, skippers, skirmish, skirrets, skirters, skitters, skreighs, slickers, smirkers, snickers, sparkish, stickers, stinkers, strikers, turfskis, whiskers. | |
| 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. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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