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INTRIGUINGLY

Definition: INTRIGUINGLY

INTRIGUINGLY

Adverb

1. By means of, or in the manner of, intrigue.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: INTRIGUINGLY

"INTRIGUINGLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INTRIGUINGLY" is used about 50 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%5048,117

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: INTRIGUINGLY

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "INTRIGUINGLY": intriguingly-named.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "INTRIGUINGLY"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "INTRIGUINGLY" (pronounced i'ntrē"ginglē)
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: INTRIGUINGLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: intriguing, untiringly.

-3 letters: gruntling, ringingly.

-4 letters: glinting, grunting, igniting, linguini, tingling, untiring, urgingly.

-5 letters: gingili, girning, girting, guiling, inuring, liturgy, lunging, lunting, nurling, ringgit, ringing, ruining, tinging, tinnily, tirling, trining, turning, uniting, untying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INTRIGUINGLY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 54 52 49 47 55 49 4E 47 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -    .-.    ..    --.    ..-    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000111 01010101 01001001 01001110 01000111 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#71 &#85 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0054 0052 0049 0047 0055 0049 004E 0047 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

434854524341554348414659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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