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Definition: Ingrowing |
IngrowingAdjective1. Growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ingrowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonym: IngrowingSynonym: ingrown (adj). (additional references) |
| "Ingrowing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Ingrowing" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ingrowing": Ingrowing nail. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
hair ingrowing | 5 |
ingrowing toe nail | 5 |
ingrowing toenail | 3 |
ingrowing nail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ingrowing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që rritet përbrenda (ingrown). (various references) | |
Arabic | في اللحم, نام نحو الداخل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който расте навътре (ingrown), врастващ се в месото (ingrown). (various references) | |
Czech | zarostlý (hirsute, overgrown), vrùstání nehtu do masa. (various references) | |
French | incarné (incarnate). (various references) | |
German | einwachsend. (various references) | |
Greek | αυξηθείσ προσ τα έσω (ingrown). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גדל פנימה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | benövés (ingrowth), befelé növõ. (various references) | |
Manx | yn-aase, 'sy 'eill, goll 'syn 'eill. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingrowingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encravado (ingrown). (various references) | |
Romanian | care creşte în carne, încarnat (embodied, passionate). (various references) | |
Russian | врастающий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji raste unutra. (various references) | |
Spanish | encarnado (incarnate). (various references) | |
Swedish | som växer inåt. (various references) | |
Turkish | içeriye doğru büyüyen, batan (sunken). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уростаючий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ingrowing" (pronounced 'In"grow`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: groining, ignoring, wringing, wronging. | |
-2 letters: girning, gowning, growing, ingoing, ingrown, ironing, ringing, winging. | |
-3 letters: goring, gringo, noggin, origin, owning, rowing, wining, wiring. | |
-4 letters: giron, going, groin, grown, inion, iring, owing, wring, wrong. | |
-5 letters: girn, giro, gong, gown, grig, grin, grog, grow, inro, iron, nogg, noir, nori, ring, wing, wino, worn. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-w" | |
+2 letters: songwriting. | |
+3 letters: overswinging, songwritings. | |
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