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Definition: INGLE |
INGLENoun1. A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. 2. Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. Transitive verb1. To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle. |
Date "INGLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ingle (The). The recess with benches in old-fashioned fireplaces, the fire. "Sit thee by the ingle when The sear faggot blazes bright." Keats: Eancy, stanza 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana; household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile; native soil, native land. |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INGLE |
| English words defined with "INGLE": Engle ♦ Ingle side. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INGLE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (crotch, groin). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Dwight J. Ingle. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "INGLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "INGLE" is used about 7 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) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "INGLE" 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 |
| Ingle | Last name | 3,000 | 3,814 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "INGLE": Ingle cheek ♦ Ingle nock ♦ Ingle nook ♦ Ingle side. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "INGLE": ingle-neuk, ingle-nook, ingle-nooks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
ingle | 33 |
doug ingle | 17 |
health ingle | 6 |
ingle insurance | 6 |
john ingle | 6 |
ingle insurance john | 5 |
david ingle | 4 |
ingle mead | 4 |
ingle martin | 4 |
doug ingle interview | 3 |
bill ingle | 2 |
red ingle | 2 |
associate ingle | 2 |
chloe ingle | 2 |
ingle shapiro | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INGLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vatër (centre, fire place, focus, hearth, hotbed, household, seat). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | огън (blaze, fire, flame, flush, flushing, light), огнище (firebox, fireplace, focus, hearth, nursery, range, seat). (various references) | |
Czech | plamen (blaze, flame). (various references) | |
Danish | Ingle-test (Ingle test), Ingle-enhed (INGLE Unit), Fællesskabsinitiativ,der skal forberede virksomheder til det indre marked (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket), PRISMA). (various references) | |
Dutch | Communautair initiatief om het bedrijfsleven voor te bereiden op de eenwording van de Europese markt (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket), PRISMA). (various references) | |
French | Initiative communautaire concernant la préparation des entreprises dans la perspective du Marché Unique (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket)), unité d'INGLE (INGLE Unit), épreuve d'Ingle (Ingle test). (various references) | |
German | Ingle-Test (Ingle test), Ingle-Einheit (INGLE Unit), im INGLE Test ermittelte Einheit fuer NNR-Hormone (INGLE Unit), Gemeinschaftsinitiative zur Vorbereitung der Unternehmen auf den Binnenmarkt (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket), PRISMA). (various references) | |
Greek | Κοινοτική πρωτοβουλία σχετικά με την προετοιμασία των επιχειρήσεων στην προοπτική της Ενιαίας Αγοράς (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket), PRISMA), μονάδα Ingle (INGLE Unit), δοκιμασία Ingle (Ingle test). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tûz (fire). (various references) | |
Italian | Iniziativa comunitaria concernente la preparazione delle imprese in vista del mercato unico (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket)). (various references) | |
Manx | chiollagh (fireplace, hearth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingleay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lareira (fireplace, hearth), lar (abode, firebox, fireside, hearth, home, hostel, toft). (various references) | |
Romanian | foc (affliction, Ardor, ardour, arson, blaze, bonfire, brunt, conflagration, discharge, fire, firing, glow, grief, heat, jib, light, round, shot, spirit). (various references) | |
Russian | огонь в очаге. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ognjište (chimney, hearth, hearthstone), oganj (fire, flame). (various references) | |
Spanish | Iniciativa Comunitaria relativa a la Preparación de las Empresas para el Mercado Único (Community initiative concerning the preparation of businesses for the Single Market(P reparation of R egional I ndustry for the S ingle Ma rket)), unidad Ingle (INGLE Unit), prueba de Ingle (Ingle test). (various references) | |
Thai | เตาไฟ (โบราณ). (various references) | |
Turkish | ocak ateşi. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | góc lò sưởi (ingle-nook). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INGLE": inglenook, inglenooks, ingles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "INGLE": atingle, bemingle, comingle, commingle, cringle, dingle, immingle, intermingle, jingle, mingle, reshingle, shingle, single, surcingle, swingle, tingle, unmingle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "INGLE": bemingled, bemingles, comingled, comingles, commingled, commingles, cringles, dingleberries, dingleberry, dingles, immingled, immingles, intermingled, intermingles, jingled, jingler, jinglers, jingles, kingless, kinglet, kinglets, meaningless, meaninglessly, meaninglessness, meaninglessnesses, mingled, mingler, minglers, mingles, reshingled, reshingles, ringleader, ringleaders, ringlet, ringlets, shingled, shingler, shinglers, shingles, singled, singleness, singlenesses, singles, singlestick, singlesticks, singlet, singleton, singletons, singletree, singletrees, singlets. (additional references) | |
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"INGLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aingle, engl, engla, engli, fingle, Hingle, igl, Igla, igle, infl, Ingalo, inge, Ingela, Ingen, ingol, Ingpen, Ingre, Inle, inleu, insle, Kingle, Lingla, negli, Nigde, ongle, Pingle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INGLE" (pronounced i"nggul) |
| 5 | i" ng g u l | commingle, Dingle, swingle, intermingle, jingle, mingle, shingle, single, tingle. |
| 4 | -ng g u l | angle, antifungal, bangle, dangle, disentangle, entangle, fungal, Spangle, strangle, tangle, jangle, jungle, Mangel, mangle, mongol, rectangle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wrangle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, bagel, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, conjugal, eagle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, struggle, jiggle, juggle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, milligal, mogul, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, regal, smuggle, snuggle, toggle, wiggle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: gien, glen, lien, line, ling. | |
-2 letters: eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, leg, lei, lie, lin, nil. | |
-3 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: dingle, eloign, engild, genial, gentil, ingles, jingle, leggin, legion, linage, linger, mingle, niggle, single, tingle. | |
+2 letters: aligned, aligner, aneling, angelic, anglice, atingle, belling, belting, belying, blueing, ceiling, celling, cleping, clewing, clinged, clinger, clueing, cringle, dealing, deleing, delving, dingles, dueling, eanling, elating, eliding, eloigns, eloping, eluding, eluting, engilds, english, engrail, erlking, exiling, feeling, felling, felting, finagle, fleeing, flexing, fleying, flinger, fueling, galenic, gallein, gelatin, gelding, gelling, geminal, genital, gentile, gillnet, gingeli, gingely, glenoid, gleying, glinted, glisten, glueing, glycine, gremlin, guyline, healing, heeling, heiling, helling, helming, helping, helving, ignoble, indulge, jelling, jingled, jingler, jingles, keeling, kegling, kelping, kinglet, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, leching, leering, legging, leggins, legions, legumin, lemming, lending, lensing, lentigo, letting, levying, lighten, lignite, linages, lineage, lingers, lingier, lingoes, linguae, linkage, longies, lugeing, melding, melling, melting, mewling, mingled, mingler, mingles, nargile, neglige, niggled, niggler, niggles, pealing, peeling, pelting, realign, reeling, reginal, relying, ringlet, sealing, seeling, selfing, selling, shingle, singled, singles, singlet, slewing, slinger, sniggle, swingle, telling, tingled, tingler, tingles, unagile, vealing, veiling, welding, welling, welting, winglet, yealing, yelling, yelping. | |
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