PAWNING

Definition: PAWNING

PAWNING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Pawn

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PAWNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: PAWNING

English words defined with "PAWNING": Impignoration ♦ Pignoration, Pignorative ♦ view. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Parent's guide to legal violence : the pawning of our children (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"PAWNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "PAWNING" is used about 13 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Language		Translations for "PAWNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		belening. (various references)

Chinese		典�" (Pawn, Pawned, pawns). (various references)

Danish		håndpant (pledging). (various references)

Dutch		pandgeving (collateral, collateral security, pledging), verpanding (collateral, collateral security, pledging), belening. (various references)

Esperanto		lombardo. (various references)

Faeroese		lombardur, lán, ábyrgdarlán. (various references)

French		nantissement (pawn), mise en gage. (various references)

German		Verpfändung (mortgage, pledge, pledging, pledging as collateral). (various references)

Greek		ενέχυρο (collateral, collateral security, forfeit, hock, pawn, pledge, pledging, security), ενεχυριασμός (pledging). (various references)

Hebrew		�"עבט�". (various references)

Indonesian		penggadaian, gadai (security). (various references)

Italian		pignoramento (attachment, distraint, pledging), pegno (earnest, Favor, favour, forfeit, Gage, keepsake, pawn, pledge, pledging, security). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		質入れ , 入質 , 入れ質 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しちいれ, にゅうしち, いれしち, いれじち. (various references)

Manx		gioalteeagh (mortgaging), gioaltaghey (pawn). (various references)

Pig Latin		awningpay

Portuguese		penhor (chattel mortgage, chit, debenture, deposit, earnest, forfeit, Gage, guarantee, hostel, lientery, mortgage, mortgage on chattels, pawn, pledge, pledging, security, security bond, surety, token). (various references)

Romanian		amanetare (mortgage, pawn, pawnage). (various references)

Spanish		pignoración (collateral, collateral security, pledge, pledging). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "PAWNING": impawning, spawning. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"PAWNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jawning, paning, parning, pawi, pawkins, pawnning, Powning, Pwani, Qazwnin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-w"
	-1 letter: awning, pawing, pinang, waning.
	-2 letters: aping, awing, gnawn, pinna, wigan.
	-3 letters: agin, gain, gawp, gnaw, nipa, pain, pang, pawn, pian, pina, ping, wain, wing.
	-4 letters: ain, ani, awn, gan, gap, gin, gip, inn, nag, nan, nap, naw, nip, pan, paw, pia, pig, pin, wag, wan, wap, wig, win.
	-5 letters: ag, ai, an, aw, in, na, pa, pi.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-w"
	+1 letter: prawning, spawning, wingspan.
	+2 letters: impawning, weaponing, wingspans.
	+3 letters: enwrapping, inwrapping, prewarning, preweaning, unwrapping.
	+4 letters: downplaying, pawnbroking, postweaning.
	+5 letters: newspapering, pawnbrokings.
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