conkers
/ˈkɒŋ.kəz/noun
conkers is spelled C-O-N-K-E-R-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conkers means “A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in conkers?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-K-E-R-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is conkers?
Conkers appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce conkers?
- /ˈkɒŋ.kəz/
- /ˈkɒŋ.kəɹz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-conkers.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does conkers mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKA game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
- 2
plural of conker
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does conkers come from?
By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).