Gangling

Definitions: Gangling

Gangling

Adjective

1. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man".

2. Ungracefully tall and thin.

Synonyms: Gangling

Synonyms: gangly (adj), lanky (adj), rangy (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Gangling

English words defined with "gangling": gangly ♦ lanky ♦ rangy. (references)

"Gangling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gangling" is used about 48 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)	100%	48	49,194

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 "gangling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stërhell (lanky), shtrembulaq. (various references)

Arabic		‏متطاول ومهلهل. (various references)

Bulgarian		дълъг като върлина, дългунест (lanky, lathy, slab-sided). (various references)

Czech		vyèouhlý (lanky). (various references)

Farsi		طولانی ودراز, بلندترازحدمعمول . (various references)

Finnish		hontelo (lank, scraggy). (various references)

French		dégingandé. (various references)

German		schlaksig (gawky, lanky), hochaufgeschossen. (various references)

Greek		υψηλόσ και αδέξιοσ, ψηλόλιγνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מוארך ורופף. (various references)

Hungarian		nyakigláb (spindle, spindling, spindly). (various references)

Italian		allampanato (lanky, lean, overgrown, weedy). (various references)

Pig Latin		anglinggay.(various references)

Portuguese		capataz (captain, chief of party, clerk of works, deputy, foreman, gag, ganger, gangster, inspector, keeper, overman, overseer, sub-foreman, taskmaster). (various references)

Russian		долговязый (gangly, lanky, lathy, rangy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy). (various references)

Spanish		larguirucho (lanky). (various references)

Swedish		lång och gänglig (lank, lanky). (various references)

Turkish		uzun boylu ve zayıf, sırık gibi (lank, lanky, tall and thin). (various references)

Ukranian		незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), довготелесий. (various references)

Vietnamese		lênh khênh; lóng ngóng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Gangling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ganbling, Ganelin, ganglins, Ganguli, gingeng, gungeing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-g-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: angling, ganging, lagging, nagging.
	-2 letters: gaging, gingal.
	-3 letters: aging, algin, align, liang, ligan, linga.
	-4 letters: agin, anil, gain, gang, giga, glia, lain, lang, ling, linn, nail.
	-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, gag, gal, gan, gig, gin, inn, lag, lin, nag, nan, nil.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-g-i-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: naggingly.
	+2 letters: engagingly, unflagging.
	+4 letters: agglutinogen, unflaggingly.
	+5 letters: agglutinating, agglutinogens, antismuggling.
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