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Definitions: Rambling |
RamblingAdjective1. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that". 2. Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rambling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: RamblingSynonyms: digressive (adj), discursive (adj), excursive (adj), meandering(a) (adj), wandering(a) (adj), winding (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like. |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
Feebleness | Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse). |
Insanity | Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. |
Irregularity of recurrence | Dj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical, unmethodical, variable. |
Journey | Adjective: traveling; Verb: ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean, circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rambling |
| English words defined with "rambling": Circumcursation, consistency ♦ deviousness, digressive, discursive, discursively ♦ excursive ♦ Gadder ♦ Jasminum mesnyi, Jasminum nudiflorum ♦ leresis ♦ obliqueness ♦ Pererration, primrose jasmine ♦ ramblingly, Rampler ♦ shaggy dog story, Skimble-scamble, sprawl, straggle ♦ Transcursion ♦ unkempt ♦ winter jasmine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rambling": Ramble ♦ Skimble-Skamble. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All right ramblers, let's get rambling! (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino) I don't think I'm rambling, I'm just answering the question. (Ghost; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) She's rambling. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) I'm rambling. What's your news baby? (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Outdoor Rambling (1972) Rambling 'Round Radio Row (1934) The Rambling Ranger (1927) A Rambling Romeo (1922) Just Rambling Along (1918) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. |
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| "Rambling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.92% of the time. "Rambling" is used about 130 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) | 66.92% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.23% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "rambling": rambling club. 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 |
rambling rose | 50 |
rambling | 39 |
rambling holiday | 9 |
rambling seriocomic | 8 |
rambling vacation | 5 |
pine rambling | 4 |
club rambling | 4 |
rambling with gambling | 3 |
lyrics man rambling | 3 |
rambling wreck | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rambling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plot të hyra e të dala, pa lidhje (desultory, discursive, disjointed, extraneous, inapposite, inconsequent, unconnected), i shpërndarë (diffuse, diffused, diffusive, disseminated, dissipated, scattered, straggling), i ndërtuar pa plan, i hallakatur (discursive, errant, erratic, hugger mugger, scatterbrained). (various references) | |
Arabic | متنقل على نحو مشتت, متسلق (ascending, climbing, scaling), متعرش, غير متماسك (incompact), غير مترابط (abrupt, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, incoherent, inconsequent, ragged, scrappy), خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, doddering, dotage, ramble, rant, rave, senile, senility), المشي على الأقدام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скитащ, криволичещ (anfractuous, meandering, sinuous), несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), бродещ, пълзящ (creeping, procumbent, prostrate, repent, reptile, running, scandent, serpigious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 漫 边际. (various references) | |
Czech | tìkavý (desultory, flighty, runabout, volatile, wandering, wool gathering, woolgathering), potulný (itinerant, strolling, vagabond, vagrant, wandering), popínavý, nesouvislý (desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, incoherent). (various references) | |
Danish | rankende, vandreferie (hiking holidays). (various references) | |
Dutch | trektocht, trekken (attenuating, attenuation, attract, bend, design, drag, draw, drawing, forcing, forcing crop, haul, limp, make a draft, make a stroke, migrate, pull, pulling, roam, soldering, to come out, to puff, to pull out, tow, traction, tug, wander, wander about). (various references) | |
Finnish | retkeily (excursion, hiking, outing), vaellus (migration, stroll, wander, wandering), samoilu. (various references) | |
French | randonnée pédestre, randonnée (ramble), sans plan précis, qui radote, pédestre, incohérent, grimpant (rambler), divagation (raving), décousu (ragged). (various references) | |
German | weitläufig (distant, lengthy, long winded, long-drawn-out, spacious, sprawling, straggly), schweifend (vagabond, wandering). (various references) | |
Greek | πεζοπορία (hike, pedestrianism, tramp, walk), ασυνάρτητοσ (discursive, incoherent), απλωμένοσ (outspread). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוטט (gadabout, globetrotter, hiker, prowler, rambler, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), שטוט (wandering), "תשתוטטות (peregrination, wandering about), בלתי מסו"ר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kószáló (dawdling, rambler, roaming, roving), kóborló (itinerant, migrant, roaming, rover, vagrant). (various references) | |
Italian | rampicante (clambering, climber, climbing, creeping, liane, reptant, scrambling, vine, voluble), vagante (stray, vagrant), sconnesso (desultory, disconnected, disjointed, incoherent, scrappy), irregolare (anomalous, erratic, fitful, foul, irregular, patchy, ragged, uneven), incoerente (disjointed, incoherent, inconsistent), gite a piedi, girovago (itinerant, rover, tramp, vagrant), errante (errant, erring, wandering). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 漫然たる (desultory, random), 漫歩 (sauntering, strolling), 取り留めの無い (incoherent, vague, wandering, whimsical), 取り留めのない (incoherent, vague, wandering, whimsical), 取り止めの無い (incoherent, vague, wandering, whimsical), 取り止めのない (incoherent, vague, wandering, whimsical), 彷徨 (fluctuation, roaming, variation, wandering). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ま"ぜ"たる (desultory, random), ま"ぽ (sauntering, strolling), ほう"う (apprenticeship, aroma, balm, course, direction, emission of light, expulsion from school, fluctuation, fragrance, howl, muzzle, perfume, public duty, roaming, roar, seamstress, service, tailor, variation, wandering, way, yell), とりとめのない (incoherent, vague, wandering, whimsical). (various references) | |
Manx | wagaantys (vagabondage, vagrancy), wagaantagh (ramble, stroll, stroller, vagabond, vagrant), rouailley (confusion, delerium, deviousness, incoherence, mix up, prowl, rave, wander), rouaillagh (adrift, delirious, devious, erring, incoherent, itinerant, prowler), branlaadee (confusion, hallucinate, raving, wandering of mind). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amblingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vagabundo (bum, cornerman, downcast, gadabout, gad-fly, hobo, landlord, landlubber, Lea, maverick, planetoid, prowler, Ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, Woodward), sem grande coerência, errante (arrant, devious, errant, erring, excursus, gadder, knockabout, migratory, nomad, planetary, strolling, viatic, wandering), desligado (dead, desultory, disconnected, incoherent, off, out, scrappy, separate, unconnected), desconexo (desultory, disconnected, fragmentary, incoherent, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), circuito pedestre. (various references) | |
Romanian | incoerent (disconnected, disjointed, inarticulate, incoherent, incoherently, rigmarole), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), hoinãrealã (dalliance, ramble), cãţãrãtor (climbing). (various references) | |
Russian | разбросанный (sparse, straggling), хаотичный, бродячий (down-and-out, knock about, nomad, nomadic, rangy, strolling, wandering), бессвязный (delirious, disconnected, incoherent, rigmarole, skimble-skamble, stray, unconnected), беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, erratic, haywire, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuary, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rasplinut (incompact, lengthy, prolix), preopširan, koji se udaljava, koji luta (roving). (various references) | |
Spanish | recorrido a pie, trepador (climber, high climber, high rigger, nuthatch, rigger, rig-up man, social climber), sin plan, prolijo y confuso, laberíntico (involved, labyrinthine), enmarañado (beetle, complicated, felting, inextricable, involved, matted, messy, shaggy, tangled, tousled), divagador (discursive). (various references) | |
Swedish | virrig (confused, desultory, dizzy, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), svamlig (diffuse), oregelbundet byggd, kringirrande (erratic), kläng-. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งกระจายไปหลายทิศทางอย่างไร้รูปแบบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tutarsız (abrupt, as thin as a wafer, choppy, conflicting, contradictious, contradictory, desultory, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, double-minded, incoherent, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, precarious, unconnected, wafer-thin, wayward), saçma sapan (foolishly, nonsense, nonsensical, stuff and nonsense), ipe sapa gelmez (absurd, disjointed, incoherent, nonsense, without rhyme or reason), derme çatma (crazy, hastily put up, jerry built, patchy, scrappy, scratch, scratchy), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy), boş boş dolaşan kimse, biçimsiz (amorphous, distorted, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, unformed, ungainly, unshapely), bağlantısız (disconnected, unrelated, without encumbrance, without encumbrances), başıboş tip (gadabout), başıboş (adrift, footloose, idle, idled, roving, straggling, straggly, stray, strayed, vagabond, vagrant). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розкиданий (diffuse, diffused, straggling, straggly), бродячий (knockabout, nomad, nomadic, rangy, roving, runagate, strolling, vagrant), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự viết không có mạch lạc, sự nói không có mạch lạc, sự nói dông d i, sự đi lang thang (divagation, rove), ngao du dông d i; không có mạch lạc, lang thang (errant, vagabond), cái thụt v o, cái nhô ra. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vagus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rambling": ramblingly, ramblings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rambling": brambling, descrambling, scrambling, unscrambling. (additional references) | |
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"Rambling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preambling, Ramalina, Ramblage, Ramolino, randling, Roebling, Tamblyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rambling" (pronounced ra"mbling or ra"mbuling) |
| 5 | -m b l i ng | dissembling. |
| 4 | -b l i ng | sibling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
| 8 | r a" m b u l i ng | scrambling. |
| 7 | -a" m b u l i ng | ambling, gambling. |
| 6 | -m b u l i ng | assembling, bumbling, crumbling, fumbling, grumbling, humbling, mumbling, resembling, rumbling, stumbling, trembling, tumbling. |
| 5 | -b u l i ng | babbling, bubbling, dabbling, disabling, doubling, dribbling, enabling, gobbling, hobbling, labeling, mislabeling, nibbling, quibbling, redoubling, scribbling, squabbling, tabling, troubling, warbling, wobbling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bugling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, cycling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disgruntling, dismantling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, funneling, giggling, groveling, grueling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, huddling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, modeling, mottling, muddling, muscling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, raveling, recycling, refueling, remodeling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, saddling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, swiveling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, tripling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, wiggling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: marbling. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ambling, blaming, blaring, lambing, marling. | |
-2 letters: arming, baling, baring, gambir, gimbal, laming, lingam, malign, margin, marlin. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, argil, bairn, binal, blain, brail, brain, bring, gamin, garni, glair, gnarl, grail, grain, inarm, liang, libra, ligan, liman, limba, linga, mbira. | |
-4 letters: abri, agin, airn, amin, amir, anil, aril, bail, balm, bang, bani, barm, barn, bima, birl, blam, blin, brag, bran, brig, brim, brin, gain, gamb, garb, girl, girn, glia, glib, glim, gnar, grab, gram, gran, grim, grin, iamb, lain, lair, lamb, lang, lari, liar, lima, limb, limn, ling, lira, magi, mail, main, mair, marl, mina, nail, ragi, rail, rain, rami, rang, rani, rial, ring. | |
-5 letters: ail, aim, ain, air, alb, ami, ani, arb, arm, bag, bal, bam, ban, bar, big, bin, bra, gab, gal, gam, gan, gar, gib, gin, lab, lag, lam, lar, lib, lin, mag, man, mar, mib, mig, mil, mir, nab, nag, nam, nib, nil, nim, rag, ram, ran, ria, rib, rig, rim, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: brambling, marblings, ramblings. | |
+2 letters: clambering, ramblingly, scrambling. | |
+3 letters: beclamoring, beglamoring, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, marbleising, marbleizing, mislaboring, submarginal, umbrellaing. | |
+4 letters: beglamouring, descrambling, reassembling, unscrambling. | |
+5 letters: bildungsroman, germinability, macroglobulin, perambulating, troublemaking. | |
| 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)52 61 6D 62 6C 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -- -... .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a m b l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006D 0062 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267796878758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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