skin-and-bones
Definition, pronunciation, etymology, and usage for the English word. Free spelling reference powered by Wiktionary.
Letters
14 characters
Language
English
word origin
Source
Wiktionary
open dictionary
Access
Free
no sign-up needed
Detailed reference entry for the English word "skin-and-bones", 14-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "skin-and-bones" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "skin-and-bones" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
skin and bones is aEnglishnoun. It means: A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.
Compare similar words
See how skin and bones compares against similar English words.
Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skin and bones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for skin and bones is 14 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for skin and bones in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is skin and bones, spelled S-K-I-N- -A-N-D- -B-O-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "skin and bones"?
What does "skin and bones" mean?
What language does "skin and bones" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby English words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our English index: