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Definition: TALLYING |
TALLYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Tally |
Date "TALLYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Crosswords: TALLYING |
| Specialty definitions using "TALLYING": Offa's Dyke. (references) |
| "TALLYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TALLYING" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
tallying | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TALLYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 相符 (Coincide, Coincided, Coinciding, Tallied). (various references) | |
Danish | taelling af godsstykker. (various references) | |
Dutch | het tallyen. (various references) | |
French | comptage. (various references) | |
German | Zaehlung (census, count), Anschreiben (chalk up, charge, note down, score up, write to, write up). (various references) | |
Greek | καταμέτρηση (admeasurement, admensuration, measurement, mensuration, survey). (various references) | |
Italian | controllo (audit, check, check out, checking, checkup, command, control, curb, examination, grasp, I check, indicating, inspection, monitoring, restraint, review, screening, verification), conto (acc., account, bill, calculation, check, count, esteem, reckoning, regard, score, toll), conteggio (calculation, computation, count, counting, tally), computo (account, calculation, computation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allyingtay.(various references) | |
Russian | подсчитывать подсчет. (various references) | |
Spanish | recuento (count, counting, enumeration, re count, recount, scrutinizing, stocktaking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"TALLYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tallyn, talping, tillering, Tillyorn, tilying, Trallwyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TALLYING" (pronounced ta"lēing) |
| 5 | -a" l ē i ng | rallying. |
| 4 | -l ē i ng | bullying, jollying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, currying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, ferrying, hurrying, jockeying, journeying, levying, lobbying, marrying, monkeying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, quarrying, readying, remarrying, remedying, scurrying, studying, taxiing, varying, wearying, worrying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: allying. | |
-2 letters: gainly, laying, litany, tangly, tingly. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, gaily, gally, giant, gilly, glial, glint, inlay, laity, liang, ligan, linga, lingy, linty, lying, tally, tangy, tying. | |
-4 letters: agin, agly, alit, ally, anil, anti, ayin, gain, gait, gall, gill, gilt, glia, gnat, illy, inly, lain, lang, lati, lilt, lily, ling, lint, liny, nail, nill, tail, tain, tali, tall, tang, till, ting, tiny, tyin, yagi, yang, yill. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, all, alt, ani, ant, any, gal, gan, gat, gay, gin, git, ill, lag, lat, lay, lin, lit, nag, nay, nil, nit, tag, tan, til, tin, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: genitally, haltingly, lastingly. | |
+2 letters: alkylating, gloatingly, integrally, rattlingly, slantingly, tallyhoing, trigonally, vaultingly, vigilantly. | |
+3 letters: falteringly, flauntingly, genetically, genitivally, inelegantly, malignantly, placatingly, prattlingly, startlingly. | |
+4 letters: clatteringly, congenitally, desolatingly, flatteringly, gelatinously, gigantically, lognormality, magnetically, mulligatawny, palynologist, tangentially, triangularly, trilingually. | |
+5 letters: agonistically, allergenicity, antigenically, calculatingly, centrifugally, crystallising, crystallizing, energetically, enigmatically, everlastingly, genotypically, glycosylating, glycosylation, gradationally, gymnastically, humiliatingly, mutagenically, nostalgically, ontologically, palynologists, syllabicating, tantalizingly, titillatingly, unfalteringly, vacillatingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 4C 4C 59 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .-.. .-.. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001100 01001100 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A L L Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 004C 004C 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5435464659434841 |
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