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Definition: FLOUNDERING |
FLOUNDERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Flounder |
Date "FLOUNDERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Crosswords: FLOUNDERING |
| English words defined with "FLOUNDERING": flounder. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Floundering (1994) | |
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| "FLOUNDERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.68% of the time. "FLOUNDERING" is used about 82 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) | 92.68% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
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 |
floundering | 5 |
case expatriate floundering | 3 |
floundering light | 3 |
boat floundering | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLOUNDERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 挣扎 (Agonize, Agonized, Agonizing, Floundered). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沈没 (sinking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あっぷあっぷ (floundering and almost drowning). (various references) | |
Manx | tuittym (abate, befall, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, wavering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ounderingflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Flesus flesus, Platichthys flesus, Pleuronectes flesus, Pleuronectidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLOUNDERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flaundering, flounderings, floundring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLOUNDERING" (pronounced flou"ndering) |
| 6 | -ou" n d er i ng | foundering. |
| 5 | -n d er i ng | blundering, gerrymandering, hindering, laundering, maundering, meandering, pandering, philandering, plundering, pondering, rendering, squandering, surrendering, tendering, thundering, wandering, wondering. |
| 4 | -d er i ng | bewildering, bordering, considering, doddering, embroidering, murdering, ordering, powdering, reconsidering, reordering, shouldering, shuddering, smoldering, soldering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bickering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, outnumbering, pampering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, posturing, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, reoffering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, showering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: foundering, refounding. | |
-2 letters: enfolding, foundling, loudening, refolding, refunding, underling, unfolding, ungodlier. | |
-3 letters: dirgeful, enduring, feruling, florigen, flounder, flouring, fluoride, fluorine, fondling, founding, gueridon, indulger, infolder, ingulfed, ninefold, nonfluid, rounding, unfoiled, unfolder, unforged, unironed, unrifled. | |
-4 letters: direful, dourine, droning, dueling, dungeon, dungier, durning, eluding, endlong, enduing, enuring, eroding, fending, fenuron, feuding, figured, firedog, flinder, flinger. | |
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