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Definition: RIDDING |
RIDDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Rid |
Date "RIDDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | N. of Eng. Separating ironstone from coal shale. See also:redd. (references) |
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Crosswords: RIDDING |
| English words defined with "RIDDING": purgation, purge, purging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RIDDING": Vermin ♦ Whitewash. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the meantime, researchers are trying to develop an effective strategy for ridding areas of deer ticks. (references) | |
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| "RIDDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "RIDDING" is used about 48 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) | 95.83% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "RIDDING": ridding oneself. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
ridding spinner | 22 |
little red ridding hood | 16 |
horseback ridding | 11 |
ridding | 8 |
cock ridding | 7 |
horse ridding | 3 |
ant ridding | 3 |
ridding spiners | 3 |
man ridding shoulder woman | 2 |
flea infestations ridding | 2 |
lyrics ridding spinner | 2 |
chipmunk ridding | 2 |
lawn mowers ridding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RIDDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غربلة (screening, sieving, sifting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 赶走 (rid, Ridded). (various references) | |
German | loswerdend. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "פטרות (disposal, riddance, ridding oneself). (various references) | |
Korean | 면하게 함. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iddingray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"RIDDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lidding, Raddings, reding, redyng, riddin, rodding, Rudding, ruding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RIDDING" (pronounced ri"ding) |
| 4 | -i" d i ng | bidding, forbidding, kidding, skidding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: riding. | |
-2 letters: grind, indri, iring, rigid. | |
-3 letters: ding, gird, girn, grid, grin, irid, nidi, rind, ring. | |
-4 letters: did, dig, din, gid, gin, rid, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: deriding, riddling. | |
+2 letters: debriding, griddling, rebidding. | |
+3 letters: deridingly, discarding, discording, forbidding, redeciding, redividing, unriddling. | |
+4 letters: broadsiding, deodorizing, disordering, dispreading, overbidding, readdicting. | |
+5 letters: biodegrading, desiderating, disaccording, disburdening, discrediting, disorganized, disregarding, forbiddingly, interbedding, rededicating, underbidding, undergirding. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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