Shiritori in a sentence

Shiritori meaning

A Japanese word game wherein each player must produce a word that begins with the kana that the previous player's word ended with. Only nouns may be used. Words may not be repeated, and a player who chooses a word ending in ん (n) loses, since no normal Japanese noun begins with ん (n). See also: word chain.

Using Shiritori

• The main meaning on this page is: A Japanese word game wherein each player must produce a word that begins with the kana that the previous player's word ended with. Only nouns may be used. Words may not be repeated, and a player who chooses a word ending in ん (n) loses, since no normal Japanese noun begins with ん (n). See also: word chain.
• In the example corpus, shiritori often appears in combinations such as: shiritori shiritori.

Context around Shiritori

• Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
• Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 0 end
• Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Shiritori

• In this selection, "shiritori" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, english, game and known stand out and add context to how "shiritori" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include english shiritori a shiritori and shiritori a shiritori game using. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "shiritori" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.