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RECKLING

Definitions: RECKLING

RECKLING

Adjective

1. Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.

Noun

1. A weak child or animal.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RECKLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

"RECKLING" is a common misspelling or typo for: crackling, freckling, heckling, prickling, racking, rankling, rocking, trickling.

Synonyms by domain: reckless bankruptcy and reduction of assets (law), reckless disregard, reckless misconduct.

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Name Usage Frequency: RECKLING

The following table summarizes the usage of "RECKLING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RecklingLast name17049,826
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RECKLING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

park reckling

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RECKLING

Language Translations for "RECKLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

njeri i dobët, i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), fëmijë i dobët (sprat). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vakarcs (nubbin, shrimp, tich, titch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecklingray

   

Portuguese

  

pouco resistente, fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk and water, pimping, pony, puny, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy washy), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrity, insanitary, morbid, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, wan, weak, weakly, wishy washy), débil (broken, enervate, failure, faint, feeble, feebleminded, fragile, frail, infirm, languid, light, pony, puny, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), младший ребенок в семье. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puchusco, benjamín (baby, Benjamin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svag (faint, feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, milk and water, off, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak-kneed, weakly). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

мізинець (pinky), послідок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: RECKLING

Derivations

Words ending with "RECKLING": freckling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RECKLING"

Words rhyming with "RECKLING" (pronounced 'Reck"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dilling, Doegling, Duckling, Dukeling, Dwarfling, Eanling, Earthling, Egling, Eightling, Faintling, Fatling, Fehling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, Godling, gosling, Greekling, groundling, Gruntling, Homeling, Houseling, Housling, Jentling, Kidling, Kingling, Kitling, Lapling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling, schilling, seedling, Self-repelling, Shaveling, Shearling, shilling, Shoreling, Shorling, Snobling, Softling, Sperling, Sportling, Spurling, squireling, Steerling, stripling, Surling, Sutling, Swainling, Tankling, Tanling, Timeling, Tireling, Troutling, Twinling, Vetchling, Warling, Westling, Whigling, Whimling, Whitling, Wiseling, Witling, Wolfling, Worldling, Wormling, Yeanling, Yeorling. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RECKLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clerking.

Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-k-l-n-r"

-1 letter: clinger, clinker, cringle, crinkle, erlking, recking.

-2 letters: cering, cringe, licker, linger, linker, nickel, nicker, nickle, relink.

-3 letters: clerk, cline, cling, clink, eking, genic, icker, ingle, inker, inkle, liger, liken, liker, liner, nicer, reign, reink, relic, renig.

-4 letters: ceil, cine, cire, geck, gien, gink, girl, girn, glen, grin, keir, kern, kier, kiln, kine, king, kirn, lice, lick, lien, lier, like, line, ling, link, lire, neck, nice, nick, reck, rein, rice, rick, riel, rile, ring, rink.

-5 letters: cel, cig, elk, eng, erg, ern, gel, gen, gie, gin, ice, ick, ilk, ink, ire, irk, keg, ken, kin, kir, leg, lei, lek, lie, lin, nil, rec, reg, rei, rig, rin.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-k-l-n-r"
 

+1 letter: freckling, lackering, relocking.

 

+2 letters: bucklering, clinkering, flickering, retackling.

 

+3 letters: forelocking, racewalking.

 

+4 letters: flickeringly, interlocking, racewalkings, schnorkeling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RECKLING


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

52 45 43 4B 4C 49 4E 47

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)

01010010 01000101 01000011 01001011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#67 &#75 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0043 004B 004C 0049 004E 0047

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

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

5239374546434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Names: Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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