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Definition: Contingent |
ContingentAdjective1. Possible but not certain to occur; "they had to plan for contingent expenses". 2. Determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress". 3. Uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot. Noun1. A gathering of persons representative of some larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics". 2. A temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contingent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Literature | Contingent (A). The quota of troops furnished by each of several contracting powers, according to agreement. The word properly means the number which falls to the lot of each; hence we call a fortuitous event a contingency. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Modal logic is a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths". Related topics are possibility, impossibility, actuality, and related predicates.
A truth is necessary if it cannot be avoided without logical contradiction, such as "2 + 2 = 4." Necessary propositions either couldn't have been true or couldn't have been otherwise -- perhaps logical and mathematical propositions qualify. By contrast, a contingent truth just happens to be the case, for instance "more than half of the earth is covered by water." Contingent propositions could have been true, but also could have been false -- perhaps "the planet Jupiter exists" qualifies. Possible propositions could have been true -- they include necessary and contingent propositions. Impossible propositions couldn't have been true -- perhaps self-contradictory claims qualify.
In the most common interpretation of modal logic, one considers "all (logically) possible worlds". If a statement is true in all possible worlds, then it is a necessary truth. If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is not true in all possible worlds, then it is a contingent truth. A statement that is true in some possible world (not necessarily our own) is called a possible truth.
Modal claims are to be distinguished from similar-sounding epistemic claims. When a philosopher claims that Bigfoot possibly exists, he probably does not mean "Bigfoot might actually exist, for all I know". Rather, he is making a metaphysical claim concerning ways the world could have been, a substantive claim with apparent ontological commitments. 'Epistemic possibility', on the other hand, just traces the confines of our knowledge. "It is possible that p" may be glossed as "I (or we humans) don't know that p is false". It is a claim about those matters about which we have no knowledge one way or the other. When philosophers say "possible", they usually mean the former. An illustration: Someone asks you if 54 squared is 2926 and you stammer, "I don't know, I suppose it's possible". This is 'for all we know' possibility. For, as it turns out 54 squared is 2916 -- and it is metaphysically impossible for it to have been otherwise (say, 2926).
How to best interpret modal claims is a live issue for metaphysicians. Sometimes modal concepts are cashed out in terms of a "possible worlds idiom", which would translate the claim about Bigfoot as "There is some possible world in which Bigfoot exists". To maintain that Bigfoot's existence is possible, but not actual, one could say, "There is some possible world in which Bigfoot exists; but in the actual world, Bigfoot does not exist".
This idiom still leaves unclear what we are committing ourselves to when we make modal claims. Are we really alleging the existence of possible worlds, every bit as real as our actual world, just not actual? Renowned philosopher David K. Lewis infamously bit the bullet and said yes, possible worlds are as real as our own. This position is called "modal realism". Unsurprisingly, most philosophers are unwilling to sign on to this particular doctrine, seeking alternate ways to paraphrase away the apparent ontological commitments implied by our modal claims.
Formal rules
The concepts of necessity and possibility enjoy the following de Morganesque relationship:
Modal logic adds to the well formed formulae of propositional logic operators for necessity (L) and possibility (M). The two are definable in terms of each other:
- "It is not necessary that X" is equivalent to "It is possible that not X.
- "It is not possible that X" is equivalent to "It is necessary that not X.
Precisely what axioms must be added to propositional logic to create a usable system of modal logic has been the subject of much debate. One weak system, named K after Saul Kripke, adds only the following:
- Lp (necessarily p) has the same meaning as -M-p (not possible that not-p)
- Mp (possibly p) has the same meaning as -L-p (not necessarily not-p)
These rules lack an axiom to go from the necessity of p to p actually being the case, and therefore are usually supplimented with:
- Necessitation Rule: If p is a theorem of K, then so is Lp.
- Distribution Axiom: If L(p → q) then (Lp → Lq)
More confusing issues come from cases where one modal operator ranges over another - does Lp imply LLp, for example? (is a necessary truth necessarily necessary?)
- Lp → p (If it's necessary that p, then p is the case)
External links
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
- A discussion of modal logic by John McCarthy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Modal logic."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- In music, modality is the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as "modes" (e.g., Ionian). See musical mode.
- In language, modality is the subject concerning so-called "modal verbs" like can, must, and should, that are customarily used to modify the meaning of other verbs (which in turn tend to take the infinitive). Modal verbs express possibility (and impossibility, necessity, contingency, etc.), permissibility (and obligation, proscription, etc.), probability (and improbability, etc.).
- In philosophy, modal logic is a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths". Related topics are possibility, impossibility, actuality, and related predicates.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Modality."
Synonyms: ContingentSynonyms: contingent on(p) (adj), dependant on(p) (adj), dependent on(p) (adj), depending on(p) (adj), detail (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte. |
Chance 2 | Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional. |
Circumstance | Adjective: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental;Adjective: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious; (extrinsic); limitative. |
Expenditure | Payment; pay; (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation;. |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
Liability | Contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of. |
Possibility | Practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent; (doubtful), (effect). |
Property | Interest, stake, estate, right, claim, demand, holding; tenure; (possession); vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin, seisin. |
Qualification | Hypothetical; (supposed); contingent; (uncertain). |
Depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect). | |
Uncertainty | Contingent, contingent on, dependent on; subject to; dependent on circumstances; occasional; provisional. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contingent |
| English words defined with "contingent": Accidental lights, aleatory contract ♦ contingency, contingent on, Contingently, Contingentness ♦ depend on, depend upon, dependant, dependant on, dependent, dependent on, depending on, devolve on ♦ Eventtual, Expectative ♦ gambling contract ♦ hinge on, hinge upon ♦ independent ♦ operant conditioning ♦ qualified ♦ ride on ♦ subjunctive, subjunctive mood ♦ To do danger, Trancscendental, turn on ♦ unconditional. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contingent": ARTHUR ♦ capital commitments not provided for in the accounts, certificate of claim ♦ Gender and Ethnicity ♦ Handkerchiefs ♦ liability not appearing in the balance-sheet ♦ memorandum item ♦ National Student Loan Data System ♦ Sexual Habits, SUPERVISOR, CONTINGENTS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "contingent": Contiguous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Contingent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (batch, contingent, part, piece, quota, share, squad), Latin (affect emotionally, affect with a disease, appropriate, be granted to one, be produced, befall, color, come to pass, contaminate, cover, infect, it came to pass, it happens, it turns out, lay hands on, moisten, move, smite, sprinkle, stain, to happen, to turn out, touch, wet), Romanian (amount, class, contingent, contribution, draft). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The War in China -- The German Contingent (1901) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rancher contingent Trout Creek Mountains working group. Credit: Unknown. |  | Pose for a "Tall and Short" photograph, while visiting New York City, May 1919. They were part of a contingent of 250 Yeomen (F) who were sent to New York from Washington, D.C., to take part in the Victory Loan drive. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The first Canadian contingent lands at Hong Kong. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. Private Napoleon Edward Taylor, first member of the U.S. forces to land in Liberia, steps ashore from a lighter. Chiefly composed of Negro units, the American contingent is building bridges, improving roads, constru. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Chaplain J.R.C. Pinn conducts a church service on the forward deck of a troop transport carrying a large contingent of U.S. Army engineers to Liberia, Africa, with which the United States has concluded a defense ageeme. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | When women decide this war should end, this war will end : join the United Women's Contingent on April 24. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Charles Baudelaire | Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. |
Charles Caleb Colton | Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. |
W. Clement Stone | Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany shall be responsible for indemnifying her nationals so dispossessed, and the Reparation Commission shall credit Germany, on account of sums due for reparation, with such sums in respect of the value of the transferred rights and interests as may be assessed by the Reparation Commission, and the German Government shall, within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, communicate to the Reparation Commission all such rights and interests, whether already granted, contingent or not yet exercised, and shall renounce on behalf of itself and its nationals in favour of the Allied and Associated Powers all such rights and interests which have not been so communicated. (reference) |
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Health | Good outcomes are contingent on adequate lengths of treatment. (references) | |
However, research has shown unequivocally that good outcomes are contingent on adequate lengths of treatment. (references) | ||
It should be possible to produce such estimates in advance of prevention trials, contingent on the targeted magnitude of behavioral outcomes and the expected prevalence of HIV infection in the local population. (references) | ||
Business | Second in priority for equipment fielding and upgrades will be the Danish contingent of the MultiNational Corps " NorthEast. (references) | |
According to the privatization decree, the Government’s decision on granting the extention was contingent on the companies reaching a series of predetermined performance and investment targets. (references) | ||
Refunds are possible for customs duty paid on raw materials, semi-finished goods, and products used in the manufacture of goods for export within thirty days, contingent on documentation certifying customs duty was paid on the goods when they were imported. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | The soldiers had alleged medical neglect, substandard treatment, and non-payment of allowances after they returned injured from serving in the Nigerian contingent of ECOMOG forces in Liberia and Sierra Leone. (references) |
Economic History | Comoros | France maintains a small maritime base and a foreign legion contingent on Mayotte. (references) |
Japan | Consolidated disclosure of contingent liabilities, such as guarantees, began in April 1998. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | On June 8, a contingent of police and military personnel surrounded the compound of former president Rawlings for 2 hours. (references) |
Bolivia | Soldiers reportedly first fired in the air as demonstrators approached throwing stones and then surrounding the military contingent. (references) | |
Burma | Postcolonial land laws also have revived the precolonial tradition that private rights to land are contingent upon the land being put to productive use. (references) | |
Political Economy | GERMANY | Repayment is contingent on future sales of the airplane. (references) |
Bolivia | The debt treatment was contingent on the development of an anti-poverty program in consultation with civil society. (references) | |
Ghana | Both rounds of the election were observed, and declared free and fair, by a large contingent of domestic and international monitors. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | On March 28, following a decree by HDZ officials ordering the temporary disbandment of the Croat contingent of the Federation Army, up to 8,000 Croat soldiers did not show up for work. (references) |
Angola | The National Assembly promulgated a special status for Savimbi, declaring him to be the leader of the largest opposition party and providing him with 5 official residences and a bodyguard contingent of 400 personnel. (references) | |
Trade | Czech Rep | This is contingent upon the approval by Czech Customs on the conditions of processing and the handling of any waste caused through transformation of the goods. (references) |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Although this practice may from its nature be considered temporary or contingent, it is not on that account less injurious in its effects. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Unfortunately, there is a stubborn contingent of policy-makers who insist on abiding by the obsolete ABM Treaty and support only extremely limited missile defenses, or even none at all. |
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| "Contingent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.68% of the time. "Contingent" is used about 567 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 59.68% | 339 | 15,555 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 39.96% | 227 | 19,961 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 567 | N/A |
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Expressions using "contingent": be contingent on effect ♦ be contingent on smth. ♦ contingent liability ♦ Contingent Negative Variation ♦ contingent on ♦ Contingent use. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "contingent": contingent-claims, contingent-commanders. | |
Ending with "contingent": non-contingent. | |
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| 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 "contingent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), kontingjent (enrollment, enrolment, run), i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), i mundshëm (available, eventual, feasible, incident, likely, possible, potential, presumable, probable, prospective). (various references) | |
Arabic | فريق ممثل لبلاده, ممكن (conceivable, imaginable, it is possible, likely, possible, potential, thinkable), منوط ب (dependent, entrusted), مشروط (conditional, conditioned, dependent, provisional), تصادف (hazard, run across). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случайност (accident, accidental, chance, contingency, fortuitousness, fortuity, mischance), контингент (draft, draught), вероятен (assumptive, believable, expected, feasible, liable, likely, presumptive, probable, prospective, verisimilar), непредвидени разходи (contingency), непредвиден (casual, fortuitous, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of), зависим (adjective, dependant, dependent, subject, subordinate, tributary), евентуален (eventual), проблематичен (problematic, sticky), пай (divvy, pate, pie, portion, share, slice, whack), дял (allocation, allotment, concern, deal, dos, interest, lobe, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 意外 (suddenness, unanticipated). (various references) | |
Czech | tým (team), náhodný (accidental, adventitious, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, incidental, passing, random, stray), náhoda (accident, chance, coincidence, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, random), kontingent (quota), družstvo (co op, coop, cooperative, partnership, squad, syndicate, team). (various references) | |
Danish | muligt sand (contingent truth), mulig sandhed (contingent truth), eventuelt sand (contingent truth), eventuel sandhed (contingent truth), betinget ordre (contingent order, matched orders, straddle, switch order). (various references) | |
Dutch | eventueel (eventual, if the occasion arises). (various references) | |
Esperanto | eventuala (eventual). (various references) | |
Finnish | mahdollinen (eventual, possible, potential, prospective). (various references) | |
French | contingent, représentatif, bénéficiaire en sous ordre, éventuel. (various references) | |
German | kontingent (allocation, allotment, quota, share), eventuell (contingently, eventual, in certain circumstances, maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possible, possibly). (various references) | |
Greek | έκτακτοσ (expansible, extra, extraordinary, special, stretchable), βοηθητικό σώμα στρατού, πιθανόσ (likely, presumable, presumptive, probable), εξαρτώμενοσ (dependent), ενδεχόμενοσ (eventual, potential), απρόοπτοσ (unexpected, unforeseen), τμήμα (chapter, compartment, department, division, part, precinct, section, segment), τυχαίοσ (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, scratch, stray). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משלחת (delegacy, delegation, deputation, errand, expedition, mission), מקרי (accidental, casual, chance, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, stray), קבוצ" מיצ'ת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | részleg (cell, department, detail, division, fraction, section), kontingens (quota), véletlenség (contingency, fortuity, happenstance), véletlen (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, coincidence, fortuitous, fortune, hap, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, incidental, luck, occasional, promiscuous, random, unwitting), lehetőség (chance, contingency, eventuality, hazard, loophole, opportunity, posse, possibility, potential), feltételes (conditional, conditioned, hypothetical, potential, provisory, qualified), eshetőség (break, contingency, eventuality, happenstance, hazard), esetleges (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occurrent, promiscuous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak tentu (desultory, indefinite), rombongan (batch, caboodle, team). (various references) | |
Italian | contingente (quota), condizionato (conditional, conditioned, qualified). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 派遣隊 (detachment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はけ"たい (detachment). (various references) | |
Korean | 우박 (Hail). (various references) | |
Manx | taghyrt (accident, chance, contingency, event, eventuate, experience, fluke, happen, happening, incident, occur, occurrence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontingentcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contingente (eventual, quota, uncertain). (various references) | |
Romanian | contingent (amount, class, contribution, draft), condiţionat (conditioned, provisory), posibil (eventual, feasible, manageable, maybe, possible, possibly, presumably), eventual (accidental, casual, eventual, eventually, possible, possibly, uncertain), accidental (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, arbitrary, broken, casual, casually, chance, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, incidental, occasional, precarious, random, stray), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references) | |
Russian | случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray), контингент случайный, вероятность (certainty value, credibility, expectance, expectancy, likelihood, possibility, potential that, probability value). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavisan (dependent, subordinate), slučajan (accidental, adventitious, chance, coincidental, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random, unexpected, unintentional), moguć (possible, potential), kontigent. (various references) | |
Spanish | contingente (quota). (various references) | |
Swedish | truppavdelning. (various references) | |
Turkish | rastlantı (accident, coincidence, concurence, conjunction, encounter, fortuity, hap, happenstance, incidence, irony), olası (a priori, contingently, earthly, eventual, feasible, in the air, in the cards, incidental, liable, like, likely, off, on the cards, plausible, possible, probable, prospective, within the bounds of possibility), muhtemel (a priori, eventual, in the cards, liable, likely, on the cards, probable, prospective), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity), beklenmedik olay (accident, contingency, quirk, thunderbolt), şartlı (conditional, conditioned, on approval, provisory, qualified). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kontingent (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умовний (conditional, factitious, nominal, provisional, provisory, relative, simulated, subjunctive), частка (allotment, ante, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), контингент, випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), випадок (accident, adventure, case, chance, contingency, event, fortuity, happening, incident, incidental, occasion, occurrence, occurrent, tidings), можливий (affordable, apt, conceivable, eventual, feasible, likely, possible, potential, presumable, presumptive, probable, prospective). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | còn tuỳ theo, tình cờ (accidental, accidentally, casual, chance, en passant, fortuitous, incidental, incidentally, passing), ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, fortuitous, haply, incidental, incidentally, perchance, promiscuous), bất ngờ còn tuỳ thuộc v o. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contingent": contingently, contingents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "contingent": noncontingent. (additional references) | |
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"Contingent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ccontingent, cintingent, confingent, contagent, contangent, contengent, contigent, continente, continge, contingen, contingenc, continget, continguent, cuntingent, Koningen, oeningen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "contingent" (pronounced kunti"njunt) |
| 6 | -i" n j u n t | astringent, stringent. |
| 5 | -n j u n t | pungent, tangent. |
| 4 | -j u n t | agent, argent, cogent, convergent, detergent, diligent, divergent, emergent, exigent, indigent, indulgent, insurgent, intelligent, intransigent, negligent, pageant, reagent, Regent, resurgent, sergeant, urgent. |
| 3 | -u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, convalescent, convenient, convent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indignant, indolent, inducement, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, integument, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: contenting. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: continent. | |
-2 letters: innocent, tenoning. | |
-3 letters: conning, content, netting, tenting, tonetic, tontine. | |
-4 letters: cogent, coigne, conine, coning, coting, gotten, intent, intone, nocent, noetic, notice, noting, toeing, toning, toting. | |
-5 letters: cento, coign, conge, conin, conte, genic, incog, ingot, ninon, niton, nonce, nonet, octet, ontic, tenon, tigon, tinct, tinge, tonic, tonne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contingents. | |
+2 letters: constringent, contingently. | |
+3 letters: concatenating, concentrating, consternating, discontenting, noncontingent. | |
+4 letters: noninteracting. | |
+5 letters: counterpointing, counterstaining, deconcentrating, decontaminating, interconnecting, interconverting, nonintersecting, reconcentrating, recontaminating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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