checker
/ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.08 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
noun
A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
noun
An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
verb
To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling."
- ""Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes.""
- "There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow."
- "Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again."
- "On the other hand, who ever tires of the names of Oldfield, and Bracegirdle, and Woffington? All the flutters of the fans of two centuries, and all the solid merits of bodices and petticoats, come down to us in their names; chequering Covent Garden like chintz, and bringing along with them the periwigged and scented glories of the Congreves and Steeles."
Etymology
Etymology tree English check Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English checker From check + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cheker, escheker, scaccarium
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
- British English: /ˈtʃɛkə/