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Definitions: Leavening |
LeaveningNoun1. An influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor". 2. A substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leavening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Synonym: LeaveningSynonym: leaven (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leavening |
| English words defined with "leavening": barm ♦ cracker ♦ doughy ♦ flat ♦ leaven ♦ quick bread ♦ self-raising flour, self-rising flour, soggy ♦ To set a sponge ♦ unleavened, unraised ♦ yeast, Yeast powder. (references) |
| "Leavening" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Leavening" is used about 14 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) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
leavening agent | 5 |
leavening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leavening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thartim (baking, curing, fermenting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تخمير (fermentation), خميرة (barm, enzyme, ferment, leaven, sourness, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | преобразяващ, преобразяване (metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation), подквасване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发酵 (Ferment, fermentation, Fermentative, Fermented, Fermenting, leavened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kvašení (fermentation, rankness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kemisk dejhævning (chemical leavening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | chemisch doen rijzen van deeg (chemical leavening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | levain (leaven, leavened dough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gärungsstoff (zymoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναχώρηση (departure, getting under way, outgoing, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שמרים (grounds, yeast), שאור (leaven, sourdough, yeast), חומצ" (acid, fermenting), "חמצ" (acescence, acetification, oxidation, souring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kovászolás, kelesztés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lievito (ferment, leaven, leavened dough, sourdough, starter, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 발효시킴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eaveninglay impregnar (engrained, imbibe, imbue, impregnate, interfuse, line of action, penetrate, pervade, saturate), fermento (baker's yeast, barm, ferment, lactic starter, leaven, starter, starter culture, yeast). (various references) învoire (leave). (various references) заквашивание. (various references) previranje, maja (barm, ferment, starter), kvasac (barm, ferment, leaven, yeast). (various references) levadura (brewer's yeast, leaven, leavened dough, yeast, yeasts). (various references) surdeg (leaven, sourdough), jät, jäsmedel (leaven), inslag (element, filling, filling weft, leaven, pick, shoot, shute, strand, weft, woof). (various references) mayalanma (ferment, fermentation, working, zymosis), mayalama (leaven), etkileme (action, affection, coaction, grip, infectiousness, leaven), değiştirme (alteration, changing, commutation, conversion, disguise, exchange, interchange, modification, recast, reformation, re-formation, replacement, shift, switch, trans-). (various references) hamyrturюy (fermented dough), hamyrmaяa (fermented dough). (various references) sự l m lên men sự l m cho thấm v thay đổi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "leavening": leavenings. (additional references) | |
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"Leavening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leadening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leavening" (pronounced le"vuning) |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-v" | |
-2 letters: aneling, eanling, enliven, evangel, evening, leaning, leaving, lineage, vealing. | |
-3 letters: alevin, alvine, avenge, engine, geneva, genial, glaive, laving, leaven, linage, vagile, valine, veinal, venial, venine, vineal. | |
-4 letters: agene, agile, aglee, algin, alien, align, aline, alive, anele, angel, angle, anile, anvil, eagle, elain, ganev, gavel, genie, given, glean, inane, ingle, leave, levin, liane, liang, liege, lieve, ligan, linen, linga, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nieve, nival, veena, vegan, vegie, venae, venal, venge, venin, vinal. | |
-5 letters: agee, agin, alee, anil, eave, egal, elan, even, evil, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gave, gene, gien, give, glee, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lave, lean, leva, lien, line, ling, linn, live, nail, nave, nene, neve, nevi, nine, vagi, vail, vain, vale, vane, vang, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, viga, vile, vina, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-v" | |
+1 letter: leavenings. | |
+2 letters: lavendering. | |
+3 letters: evangelizing, interleaving, overcleaning, overlearning. | |
+4 letters: cantilevering. | |
+5 letters: evangelization, overexplaining. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 76 65 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- ...- . -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a v e n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0076 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467167887180758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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