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Definition: Fledgeling |
FledgelingAdjective1. Of a young bird just having acquired its flight feathers; "a fledgling robin". Noun1. Any new participant in some activity. 2. Young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fledgeling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: FledgelingSynonyms: fledgeling(a) (adj), fledgling(a) (adj), entrant (n), fledgling (n), freshman (n), neophyte (n), newcomer (n), starter (n). (additional references) |
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| "Fledgeling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Fledgeling" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | The Fleming European Fledgeling Investment Trust P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
filbert fledgeling | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fledgeling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zog i ri (flapper, fledgling), në moshë të re (fledgling), i ri (adolescent, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, original, red-hot, rising, stripling, teenager, teener, young, youngling, youthful), axhami (callow, fledgling). (various references) | |
Arabic | الفرخ (bass, nestling), الغر (gosling, greenhorn, naivete). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | новооперена птичка (fledgling), младок (colt, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, shaver, snip, snippet, sprig, sprout, youngster). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雏鸟 (fledgling). (various references) | |
Czech | zelenáè (apprentice, cub, fledgling, greener, milksop, rookie, sucker), ptaèí mládì (chick, fledgling), nováèek (fledgling, greenhorn, new boy, newcomer, novice, recruit, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro), mladý pták (fledgling). (various references) | |
French | petit oiseau, oisillon (fledgling), débutant. (various references) | |
German | erwachsen werdend. (various references) | |
Greek | νεοσσόσ μόλισ πτερωθείσ (fledgling), πρωτόπειροσ (fledgling, novice, tiro, tyro). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fiatal madár (fledgling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edgelingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | frangote (cockerel), ave prestes a voar. (various references) | |
Romanian | pui (aerie, baby, calf, chick, chicken, chuck, cub, dear, get, nestling, whelp, young), pasãre care poate zbura, novice (apprentice, beginner, callow, colt, cub, entrant, greenhorn, innocent, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, recruit, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, untried), începãtor (a, abecedarian, apprentice, beginner, beginning, cadet, novice, raw hand, suckling, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro). (various references) | |
Russian | оперившийся птенец (fledgling), зеленый юнец (callow youth, fledgling, unlicked cub). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | goluždravo, goluždravac (eyas, fledgling, nestling, squab). (various references) | |
Spanish | volantón (fledgling), pichón (pigeon, dove, squab), novato de otro país (cub, fledgling, greenhorn). (various references) | |
Swedish | nybörjare (beginner, rookie, tiro, tyro). (various references) | |
Turkish | yavru kuş (chick, chicken, fledgling, nestling, squab chick), tüyleri yeni çıkmış kuş (fledgling), acemi çaylak (clumsy fellow, cobbler, fledgling, rank beginner, rookie). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | оперене пташеня (fledgling). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người thiếu kinh nghiệm (fledgling, sucker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "fledgeling" (pronounced 'Fledge"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling, schilling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-g-g-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: fledgling. | |
-2 letters: fledging. | |
-3 letters: deleing, feeding, feeling, feigned, felling, fleeing, gelding, gelling, neglige, niggled. | |
-4 letters: defile, define, dingle, edging, engild, feeing, feline, felled, figged, filled, fledge, geeing, gelled, gilled, legend, legged, leggin, nellie, niggle, nilled. | |
-5 letters: deign, diene, dinge, edile, egged, elfin, elide, feign, felid, fidge, field, fiend, filed, fille, fined, flied, fling, gelid, genie. | |
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