POUNCING

Definition: POUNCING

POUNCING

Noun

1. Decorative perforation of cloth.

2. The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Pounce

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "POUNCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Crosswords: POUNCING

English words defined with "POUNCING": pounce. (references)

Specialty definitions using "POUNCING": HAT-FINISHING-MATERIALS PREPARER. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Pouncing Bobcats (Pull Ahead Books) (reference) Simba's Pouncing Lessons (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"POUNCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.96% of the time. "POUNCING" is used about 23 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)	86.96%	20	78,262
Adjective (general or positive)	13.04%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	23	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 "POUNCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		bimsend. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouncingpay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"POUNCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Polunin, ponceing, poncing, poncins, rouncing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "POUNCING" (pronounced pou"nsing)
5	-ou" n s i ng	announcing, bouncing, denouncing, pronouncing, renouncing, trouncing.
4	-n s i ng	advancing, balancing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, dispensing, distancing, enhancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, prancing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, rinsing, romancing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-p-u"
	-1 letter: couping, poncing.
	-2 letters: coning, coping, nuncio.
	-3 letters: coign, conin, cuing, gipon, incog, oping, pingo, pinon, union, unpin.
	-4 letters: cion, coin, coni, conn, coup, icon, noun, ping, pion, pong, pung, unci, unco, upon.
	-5 letters: cig, cog, con, cop, cup, gin, gip, gnu, gun, inn, ion, nip, nog, nun, pic, pig, pin, piu, poi, pug, pun, upo.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-p-u"
	+1 letter: couponing.
	+2 letters: couponings, uncoupling.
	+3 letters: compounding, outpunching, pronouncing.
	+4 letters: nonproducing, suspicioning, uncompelling.
	+5 letters: counterposing, preannouncing, precautioning, uncomplaining.
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