SCENTING

Definition: SCENTING

SCENTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Scent

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SCENTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Crosswords: SCENTING

English words defined with "SCENTING": spike lavender oil, spike oil. (references)

Etymologies containing "SCENTING": Brach. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Scenting a Terrible Crime (1913)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Scenting on the Wind: Scent Work for Hunting Dogs (reference) The Book of Potpourri: Fragrant Flower Mixes for Scenting & Decorating the Home (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"SCENTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "SCENTING" is used about 31 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)	96.77%	30	63,341
Adjective (general or positive)	3.23%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	31	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 "SCENTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		闻. (various references)

German		witternd. (various references)

Italian		fiuto (flair, nose, smelling). (various references)

Korean		냄새가 남. (various references)

Pig Latin		entingscay

Russian		ощущать запах (smell). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SCENTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sneynton. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: censing, nesting, tensing.
	-2 letters: ensign, gestic, incest, ingest, insect, nicest, sennit, signet, tennis, tinges.
	-3 letters: cents, cesti, cines, cites, genic, gents, inset, neist, nines, nites, scent, segni, sengi, senti, since, singe, stein, sting, tines, tinge, tings.
	-4 letters: cent, cigs, cine, cist, cite, egis, engs, etic, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, ices, inns, nest, nets, nice, nine, nite, nits, sect, sent, sice, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, tegs, tens, tics, ties, tine, ting, tins.
	-5 letters: cig, cis, eng, ens, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ice, inn, ins, its, net, nit, sec, seg, sei, sen, set, sic, sin, sit, teg, ten, tic, tie, tin, tis.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: centrings, encysting, ignescent.
	+2 letters: chastening, clingstone, congesting, congestion, consenting, constringe, contesting, cunningest, descanting, encrusting, inspecting, sectioning, sentencing, stenciling, stringency, tangencies, transgenic.
	+3 letters: ancestoring, astringency, christening, clingstones, cognoscenti, congestions, consignment, constringed, constringes, contingents, copingstone, countersign, gentamicins, linecasting, scientizing, stagnancies, stencilling, thickenings, transecting.
	+4 letters: ascertaining, centimorgans, centralising, christenings, compensating, congelations, consecrating, consentingly, consignments, constringent, contingences, copingstones, copresenting, countersigns, countersuing, decongesting, decongestion, disinfecting, exactingness, geanticlines, interchanges, interfacings, intersecting, interspacing, isoantigenic, linecastings, nonstrategic, recognitions, reinspecting, resentencing, stonecutting, stringencies, syncretising, syncretizing, transcending, transfecting, unsuspecting.
	+5 letters: acceptingness, astringencies, clotheslining, cogenerations, concertgoings, conglutinates, congregations, constellating, consternating, contingencies, counterposing, countersigned, countinghouse, decongestions, disconcerting, disconnecting, discontenting, disenchanting, encapsulating, genuflections, incongruities, intelligences, interchangers, intercrossing, intransigence, introspecting, miscegenation, misconnecting, necessitating, octogenarians, precognitions, presentencing, rechristening, rediscounting, stonecuttings, transpiercing, undercoatings.
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