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Definition: SPERLING |
SPERLINGNoun1. A young herring. 2. A smelt; a sparling. |
Note: Sperling \Sper"ling\, noun. [See Sparling.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SPERLING |
| Non-English Usage: "SPERLING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (sparrow). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tierarztpraxis Dr. Sperling (1997) | |
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| "SPERLING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "SPERLING" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SPERLING" 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 |
| Sperling | Last name | 2,000 | 6,466 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sperling | 17 |
dave sperling | 8 |
john sperling | 6 |
nursery sperling | 6 |
sperling sy | 4 |
slater sperling | 3 |
peter sperling | 3 |
gene sperling | 3 |
cafe dave esl sperling | 3 |
david sperling | 3 |
jack sperling | 3 |
sperling stein | 3 |
nicole sperling | 2 |
modrall sperling | 2 |
oberhausen sperling | 2 |
best place sperling | 2 |
andrea sperling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "SPERLING" (pronounced 'Sper"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lingers, pilsner, pingers, slinger, springe. | |
-2 letters: genips, grilse, gripes, ingles, ligers, liners, linger, lisper, pensil, perils, pinger, pliers, reigns, renigs, repins, resign, ripens, sering, signer, singer, single, sniper, spinel, spline, spring. | |
-3 letters: genip, girls, girns, glens, grins, gripe, grips, ingle, lenis, liens, liers, liger, liner, lines, lings, peins, penis, peril, peris, piers, piles. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: graplines, relapsing, repulsing, spanglier. | |
+2 letters: pargylines, pellagrins, plastering, pleasuring, preselling, preslicing, pressingly, reclasping, resampling, respelling, resplicing, springlike, superlying, wellspring. | |
+3 letters: espaliering, generalship, lipreadings, plaistering, plasterings, preblessing, presumingly, princelings, proselyting, pulverising, repolishing, resculpting, respellings, resplitting, resupplying, sepulchring, splattering, splintering, spluttering, wellsprings. | |
+4 letters: besprinkling, depressingly, despairingly, earsplitting, gallinippers, generalships, nephrologies, nephrologist, oversleeping, overslipping, pelargoniums, phrenologies, phrenologist, pigeonholers, plantigrades, polymerising, preselecting, redisplaying, replastering, replenishing, republishing, sepulchering, supercoiling, supercooling, upholstering, whisperingly. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 45 52 4C 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. . .-. .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P E R L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0045 0052 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5350395246434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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