Pealing

Definition: Pealing

Pealing

Noun

1. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).

Date "pealing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Pealing

Synonyms: peal (n), roll (n), rolling (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pealing

Specialty definitions using "pealing": Organ. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	There let the pealing organ blow... [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Pealing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Pealing" is used about 6 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)	50%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	33.33%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

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 "pealing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		läutend (chiming, knolling, ringing), erschallend. (various references)

Italian		scampanellata (loud ringing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		殷殷たる (bellowing, booming, reverberating, roaring), 殷々たる (bellowing, booming, reverberating, roaring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		い�"い�"たる (bellowing, booming, reverberating, roaring). (various references)

Manx		claggyraght (peal of laughter, tinkle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ealingpay

Romanian		detunãtor (detonating, explosive), clopoţit (ringing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "pealing": appealing, repealing, unappealing. (additional references)
	Words containing "pealing": appealingly, unappealingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pealing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ealing, nealing, paaline, Palaung, pearing, peating, peelling, Peganina, Penllyn, Petaling, petalling, Pheolung, yealing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leaping.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p"
	-1 letter: alpine, genial, linage, paling, penial, pineal.
	-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, aping, elain, genip, glean, ingle, lapin, liane, liang, ligan, linga, panel, penal, pilea, plage, plain, plane, plena.
	-3 letters: agin, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gape, gien, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lean, leap, lien, line.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p"
	+1 letter: elapsing, empaling, grapline, paneling, pearling, pedaling, pleading, pleasing, pleating.
	+2 letters: appealing, beleaping, deplaning, emplacing, emplaning, enplaning, exampling, graplines, lagniappe, lappering, paltering, panelings, panelling, parceling, pargyline, parleying, pedalling, pellagrin, pleaching, pleadings, poleaxing, rappeling, relapsing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, salpinges, spanglier, upleaping.
	+3 letters: antiplague, appareling, beclasping, calipering, depilating, empaneling, enclasping, escaloping, explaining, explanting, impaneling, impearling, impleading, impugnable, lagniappes, lightplane, lipreading, opalescing, outleaping, palavering, panellings, parcelling, pargylines, peculating, pellagrins, penalising, penalizing, plastering, plateauing, pleadingly, pleasingly, pleasuring, pregenital, preplacing, prevailing, rappelling, reapplying, reclasping, repaneling, replanning, replanting, repleading, resampling, spanceling, spangliest, unpleasing.
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