WHISKING

Definitions: WHISKING

WHISKING

Adjective

1. Large; great.

2. Sweeping along lightly.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Whisk

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WHISKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Crosswords: WHISKING

English words defined with "WHISKING": Switchy. (references)

Etymologies containing "WHISKING": Switchy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WHISKING

Domain	Title
Books	Take One Egg: And Get Boiling, Scrambling, Poaching, Whisking and Baking (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: WHISKING

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: WHISKING

"WHISKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "WHISKING" is used about 33 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)	90.91%	30	63,341
Adjective (general or positive)	9.09%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	33	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WHISKING

Language		Translations for "WHISKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		扫 (Whisk, Whisked). (various references)

German		wischend (mopping, wiping). (various references)

Korean		터. (various references)

Pig Latin		iskingwhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: WHISKING

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

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Anagrams: WHISKING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-s-w"
	-1 letter: wishing.
	-2 letters: hiking, skiing, winish, wising.
	-3 letters: ginks, kings, kiwis, knish, nighs, swing, swink, whigs, whins, whisk, wings, winks.
	-4 letters: ghis, gink, gins, hins, hisn, inks, iwis, khis, king, kins, kiwi, nigh, nisi, shin, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, sink, skin, swig, whig, whin, wigs, wing, wink, wins, wish.
	-5 letters: ghi, gin, hin, his, ink, ins.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-s-w"
	+4 letters: shipwrecking.
	+5 letters: switchbacking.
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