SCRAMBLING

Definitions: SCRAMBLING

SCRAMBLING

Adjective

1. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Scramble

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SCRAMBLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Haste	Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Scrambling is a category of mountaineering that does not entail the use of any ropes on the ascent or descent.

Although skilled mountaineers may choose not to use ropes on hard climbs, for instance to save time in a dangerous situation, the rule for scrambles is that hands need be used only for balance, not to support any of the climber's weight. In practice this means the terrain will be approximately the steepness and difficulty of a ladder; the footholds will be large and the climber will be able to stand upright.

In the US, scrambling is Class 3 in the Yosemite Decimal System of climb difficulties, and Easy in the British system.

Many, if not most, of the world's mountaintops may be reached by walking or scrambling up their least-steep side. These routes are not always obvious, but mountaineering books generally mention them; they are often used as the safe and easy way to descend from a more difficult route.

Some guide books on scrambling may rate the routes as follows:

easy - generally, just off-trail hiking with minimal exposure (if at all) and perhaps a handhold or two. UIAA Class I.
moderate - handholds frequently needed, possible exposure, route finding skills helpful. UIAA Class II.
difficult - almost constant handholds, fall distance may be fatal, route finding skills needed, loose and downsloping rock. Less experienced parties may consider using a rope for short sections. YDS class 3, 4 and possibly 5.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And here I am, scrambling for your approval, when I'm way cooler than you are 'cause I'm not a sheep. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Movie/TV Titles	Scrambling for Eggs (1902)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cracking Your Retirement Nest Egg (Without Scrambling Your Finances): 25 Things You Must Know Before You Tap Your 401(k), IRA, or Other Retirement Savings Plan (reference) The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and Pragmatics (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, Vol 22) (reference) Word Order and Scrambling (Explaining Linguistics, 4) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Scrambling through the scree.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Hurrah!!! Scrambling for the goodies after the pinata broke. Pinata night on the McARTHUR at the end of the STAR 2000 cruise.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Damage to a nest of Formosan subterranean termites brings hoards of workers and soldiers with dark, oval shaped heads scrambling to repair the hole. Termites shown about 4 times actual size. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		It was a great battle. I remember plunging down the mountain, loading and firing, dodging behind rocks, falling headlong and scrambling up again.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		He may also consider the type of car and settle for a four-wheel drive because this type of car is more suitable for climbing onto the sidewalk and scrambling over obstacles protecting pedestrian areas or playgrounds. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	But the new campaign finance reform law has made grassroots outreach more complicated and has some Left-leaning groups scrambling as never before.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"SCRAMBLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.43% of the time. "SCRAMBLING" is used about 188 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)	90.43%	170	23,898
Noun (singular)	5.32%	10	111,207
Adjective (general or positive)	2.66%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	1.6%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	188	N/A

Expressions using "SCRAMBLING": aircraft scrambling ♦ ciphering and scrambling of information ♦ giant scrambling fern ♦ scrambling net. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "SCRAMBLING": half-scrambling.
	Containing "SCRAMBLING": multi-signal-scrambling-decoder.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "SCRAMBLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		扰乱 (Disarrange, Disarranged, Disarranging, harass, harassed, Harassing). (various references)

Danish		scrambling, forvraengning (distortion). (various references)

Dutch		scrambling, verschuiering. (various references)

Finnish		salakirjoitus (cipher, ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptogram, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption, steganography, step encipherment, step encypherment). (various references)

French		embrouillage, brouillage, brassage. (various references)

German		Verschlüsselung (coding, cryptography, encoding, encryption), kletternd (clambering, climbing, rambling, shinnying), geklettert (clambered, climbed, scrambled). (various references)

Greek		κρυπτογραφικός μετασχηματισμός (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption). (various references)

Hungarian		repülõgép riasztás (aircraft scrambling), mentõháló (scrambling net). (various references)

Italian		scrambling, motocross (motocross), associazione (association, club, combination, combine, company, conjunction, fellowship, group, guild, joint interest, league, linkage, partnership, society, subscription, union). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		緊急発進 (scramble), かき混ぜ規則 (to dial, to start doing something, to turn on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		き�"きゅうはっし�" (scramble), かきまぜきそく. (various references)

Korean		�'�섞음 (shuffle, shuffling). (various references)

Pig Latin		amblingscray

Portuguese		transformação criptográfica (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption), encriptação (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption), cifragem (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption). (various references)

Romanian		urcare (accession, ascension, ascent, climb, climbing, heave, rise, up), mers (course, current, drive, driven, gait, go, going, lapse, motion, movement, pace, run, set, stroke, walk, walking), care se bate pentru a obţine ceva, bãtaie pentru a obţine ceva. (various references)

Russian		смешивать;бросаться шифрование. (various references)

Spanish		trepa (hide), pelea (battle, broil, bust up, combat, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, hassle, infighting, mix in, mix up, punch-up, quarrel, scene, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff, tussle), moto-cross, aleatorización (randomisation, randomization). (various references)

Swedish		kryptografisk transformering (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption), kryptering (ciphering and scrambling of information, cryptographic enciphering, cryptographic transformation, encryption). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "SCRAMBLING": descrambling, unscrambling. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"SCRAMBLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scramblings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SCRAMBLING" (pronounced skra"mbuling or skra"mbling)
7	-a" m b u l i ng	ambling, gambling.
6	-m b u l i ng	assembling, bumbling, crumbling, fumbling, grumbling, humbling, mumbling, resembling, rumbling, stumbling, trembling, tumbling.
5	-b u l i ng	babbling, bubbling, dabbling, disabling, doubling, dribbling, enabling, gobbling, hobbling, labeling, mislabeling, nibbling, quibbling, redoubling, scribbling, squabbling, tabling, troubling, warbling, wobbling.
4	-u l i ng	backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bugling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, cycling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disgruntling, dismantling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, funneling, giggling, groveling, grueling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, huddling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, modeling, mottling, muddling, muscling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, raveling, recycling, refueling, remodeling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, saddling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, swiveling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, tripling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, wiggling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling.
7	-r a" m b l i ng	rambling.
5	-m b l i ng	dissembling.
4	-b l i ng	sibling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-i-l-m-n-r-s"
	-1 letter: marblings, ramblings.
	-2 letters: bracings, carlings, marbling, marlings, rambling.
	-3 letters: ablings, ambling, armings, blaming, blaring, bracing, cabling, calming, carling, carlins, gambirs, garlics, gimbals, lacings, lambing, lingams, maligns, margins, marling, marlins, narcism, racings, sabring, sacring, scaling, scaring, scribal.
	-4 letters: ablins, algins, aligns, arcing, argils, arming, bairns, baling, baring, basing, blains, brails, brains, brasil, brings, cabins, cairns, caring, carlin, casing, cigars, claims, clangs, climbs, clings, gambir, gamins, garlic, gimbal, glacis, glairs, gnarls, grails, grains, inarms, lacing, laming, lasing, liangs, libras, ligans, limans, limbas, linacs, lingam, lingas, macing, magics, malign, manics, margin, marlin, mbiras, racing, racism, rasing, signal.
	-5 letters: abris, acing, agism, airns, algin, align, amins, amirs, amnic, anils, argil, arils, bails, bairn, balms, bangs, baric, barms, barns, basic, basil, basin, bimas, binal, birls, blain, blams, brags, brail, brain, brans, brigs, brims, bring, brins, cabin, cains, cairn, calms, carbs, carls, carns, cigar, clags, claim, clams, clang, clans, climb, cling, crabs, crags, crams, cribs, gains, gambs, gamic, gamin, garbs, garni, girls, girns, glair, glans, glias, glims, gnarl, gnars, grabs, grail, grain, grams, grans, grins, iambs, inarm, laics, lairs, lambs, laris, liang, liars, libra, ligan, liman, limas, limba, limbs, limns, linac, linga, lings, liras, magic, mails, mains, mairs, malic, manic, marcs, marls, mbira, micas, micra, minas, nabis, nails, narcs, naric, naris, rabic, ragis, rails, rains, ranis, rials, rings, sabin, sabir, salic, salmi, sarin, scrag, scram, scrim, sigma, simar, slain, slang, sling, snail, snarl.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-g-i-l-m-n-r-s"
	+2 letters: descrambling, unscrambling.
	+4 letters: macroglobulins.
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