Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: LITTERING |
LITTERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Litter |
Date "LITTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Eritrea | The over half-million landmines littering the rural areas of Eritrea are serious impediments that inhibit mining activity. (references) |
Travel | Singapore | Visitors should be aware of Singapore's strict laws and penalties for a variety of offences that might be considered minor in the United States, including jaywalking, littering and spitting, as well as the importation and sale of chewing gum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LITTERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "LITTERING" is used about 38 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) | 94.74% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | 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 |
littering | 22 |
environment littering | 6 |
littering no sign | 5 |
fact littering | 5 |
littering picture | 4 |
fine littering | 3 |
anti littering | 3 |
littering stop | 3 |
effects littering | 3 |
litterers littering | 3 |
littering no | 3 |
littering problem | 3 |
law littering | 2 |
littering people picture | 2 |
littering statistics | 2 |
anti littering poster | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LITTERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 乱丢 (littered). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | szemetelés (making a mess). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 흩뜨림 (Messing). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | itteringlay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LITTERING": antilittering, flittering, glittering, outglittering. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LITTERING": glitteringly. (additional references) | |
| |
"LITTERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lattisring, Ligterink, Lithrig, littain, Littorina, loittering, wittering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LITTERING" (pronounced li"tering) |
| 6 | l i" t er i ng | glittering. |
| 5 | -i" t er i ng | frittering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: retitling. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: retiling, tinglier. | |
-2 letters: gittern, glitter, igniter, intitle, letting, lignite, lingier, lintier, nitrile, nitrite, nittier, retting, ringlet, tiering, tilting, tingler, tirling, titling. | |
-3 letters: engirt, gentil, girlie, gittin, ignite, inlier, linger, linier, linter, litten, litter, nitril, regilt, retint, riling, tieing, tiling, tilter, tingle, tinier, tinter, tiring. | |
-4 letters: elint, genii, glint, inert, ingle, inlet, inter, iring, legit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: flittering, glittering. | |
+2 letters: elutriating, embrittling, integrality, resplitting, retaliating. | |
+3 letters: alliterating, chitterlings, earsplitting, glitteringly, intertillage, intertilling, obliterating, reticulating. | |
+4 letters: antilittering, fortnightlies, integrability, integralities, intercalating, interestingly, intergalactic, interplanting, interpolating, interrelating, intertillages, outglittering, recultivating, restimulating, unremittingly. | |
+5 letters: entertainingly, interpellating, intransigently, rearticulating, recapitulating, rehabilitating, ultimogeniture. | |
| 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)4C 49 54 54 45 52 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. - - . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "LITTERING" |
