WARDING

Definition: WARDING

WARDING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Ward

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WARDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Crosswords: WARDING

English words defined with "WARDING": precaution ♦ rebuff, repulse ♦ safeguard, snub, straight-arm. (references)

Specialty definitions using "WARDING": Crowd ♦ Kitten ♦ Nail fixed in the Temple ♦ Tiger. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Shouting at the Wolf: A Guide to Identifying and Warding Off Evil in Everyday Life (reference) The Warding of Witch World [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) (more book examples)
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	Warding off a night attack.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"WARDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.50% of the time. "WARDING" is used about 40 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	92.5%	37	56,631
Adjective (general or positive)	5%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	2.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	40	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "WARDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		保护 (Conservation, Entrench, indemnification, Protect, Protected, Protecting, Protection, shielded, shielding, Warded). (various references)

Finnish		torjuminen (warding off). (various references)

German		einweisend (introducing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		厄除け (warding off evil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やくよけ (warding off evil). (various references)

Korean		병동에 수용. (various references)

Pig Latin		ardingway

Russian		охрана (custody, escort, guard, keeping, protection, safeguard). (various references)

Ukranian		варта (guard, sentinel, vigil, ward), охорона (cordon, custody, guard, keeping, preservation, protection, safeguard, ward, watching). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "WARDING": awarding, becowarding, forwarding, misawarding, rewarding, stewarding, swarding, unrewarding. (additional references)
	Words containing "WARDING": rewardingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WARDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardinghi, waraing, wardon, warin, waring, warking, Wersig, wirding, woring. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WARDING" (pronounced wô"rding)
6	w ô" r d i ng	awarding, rewarding.
5	-ô" r d i ng	according, affording, boarding, cording, hoarding, recording.
4	-r d i ng	bombarding, discarding, disregarding, guarding, regarding, retarding, safeguarding, skateboarding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, adding, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, Redding, Reding, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retreading, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: drawing.
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-r-w"
	-1 letter: daring, dawing, gradin, inward, wading, waring.
	-2 letters: awing, dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, garni, grain, grand, grind, nadir, ranid, rawin, wigan, wrang, wring.
	-3 letters: agin, airn, arid, dang, darn, dawn, ding, drag, draw, gadi, gain, gird, girn, gnar, gnaw, grad, gran, grid, grin, nard, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring, wadi, wain.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-r-w"
	+1 letter: awarding, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, swarding.
	+2 letters: rawhiding, redrawing, rewarding, undrawing, wandering.
	+3 letters: bedwarfing, dewatering, drawlingly, drawstring, forwarding, hardwiring, misdrawing, outdrawing, stewarding, wanderings, wingspread.
	+4 letters: becowarding, downgrading, drawstrings, handwringer, handwriting, hardworking, misawarding, overdrawing, rewardingly, unrewarding, wingspreads, wiredrawing, withdrawing, woodcarving.
	+5 letters: breadwinning, handwringers, handwringing, handwritings, snowboarding, woodcarvings.
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