Cantering

Definition: Cantering

Cantering

Adjective

1. Riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop: "the cantering soldiers".

Date "cantering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: Cantering

English words defined with "cantering": canter, cantering rhythm. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cantering": disunited gait. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Horses: A Guide to Carrots, Cantering, and Sugar Cubes (reference) (more book examples)
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"Cantering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Cantering" is used about 19 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)	94.74%	18	82,615
Adjective (general or positive)	5.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

Expression using "cantering": cantering rhythm. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "cantering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		kanternd. (various references)

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

Misspellings
	"Cantering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cantarini, caterina, caterine, Caterino, centrepin, coasteering, congering, Oceaneering, ratnering. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: recanting.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: argentic, catering, centring, creating, enacting, reacting, recaning, trancing.
	-2 letters: aginner, ancient, anergic, anteing, antigen, cannier, canting, carting, ceratin, certain, cigaret, craning, crating, creatin, earning, engrain, entrain, gentian, granite, grannie, gratine, ingrate, narcein, nearing, ranting, regnant, renting, ringent, tacrine, tangier, tearing, tracing.
	-3 letters: acetin, acting, aigret, anting, arcing, argent, cagier, canine, caning, canner, cannie, canter, caring, carnet, carnie, centai, centra, cering, cretin, cringe, earing, eating, enatic, encina, engirt, gainer, gaiter, gannet, garnet, ginner, gratin, inaner, incage, incant, ingate, innate, intern, narine, nectar, racing, ratine, rating, reagin, recant, regain, regina, retain, retina, tanner, tannic, tanrec, taring, tinner, tragic, trance, triage.
	-4 letters: acing, actin, agent, anent, anger, antic, antre, areic, cager, cairn, caner, caret, carte, cater, ceria, cigar, citer, crane, crate, enact, entia, erica, garni, genic, giant, grace, grain, grant, grate, great, inane, inert, inner, inter, irate, nacre, nance, naric, nicer, niter, nitre, rance, range, react, recta, recti, regna, reign, renig, renin, retag, retia, riant, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, tinea, tinge, trace, tragi, train, triac, trice, trine.
	-5 letters: acne, acre, ager, agin, airn, airt, ante, anti, cage, cain, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cine, cire, cite, crag, earn, etic, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gear, gent, geta, gien, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, narc, near, neat, nice, nine, nite, race, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rice, ring, rite, tace, tain, tang, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tier, tine, ting, tire, trig.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: entrancing, intragenic, reenacting, transgenic, uncreating.
	+2 letters: ancestoring, astringency, centimorgan, interacting, interagency, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, merchanting, preenacting, reaccenting, transecting, underacting.
	+3 letters: androgenetic, apprenticing, ascertaining, carpentering, centimorgans, centralising, centralizing, cogeneration, congregating, congregation, consecrating, contravening, copartnering, deracinating, incinerating, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interfacings, interspacing, nonstrategic, octogenarian, recontacting, tabernacling, transcending, transfecting, undercoating.
	+4 letters: anthropogenic, astringencies, cantilevering, cogenerations, concentrating, confederating, congregations, consternating, counteracting, credentialing, decarbonating, glycerinating, incarcerating, intercalating, interchaining, interchangers, interchanging, intransigence, octogenarians, organogenetic, precautioning, reacquainting, recriminating, reincarnating, reinoculating, revaccinating, transpiercing, undercoatings, underreacting.
	+5 letters: antiallergenic, anticarcinogen, centrifugation, compartmenting, concelebrating, conglomerating, conglomeration, congregational, conservatizing, containerising, containerizing, cotransferring, counterarguing, countermanding, counterraiding, countershading, counterstating, countervailing, credentialling, decentralizing, dechlorinating, deconsecrating, gentrification, intercomparing, intransigeance, intransigences, nongeometrical, noninteracting, overcautioning, reconsecrating, sectarianizing.
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