Sculling

Definition: Sculling

Sculling

Noun

1. Rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell.

Date "sculling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Synonyms: Sculling

Synonyms: Rowing, Rowing races. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sculling

English words defined with "sculling": gondola. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sculling

Domain	Title
Books	Hunting from Sculling Boats: A Complete Manual (reference) Knowing Rowing: An Illustrated Introduction to Rowing and Sculling (reference) Rowing and Sculling (reference) Sculling for rowing (reference) The Art of Sculling (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sculling

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Photo Album: Sculling

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Early morning sculling on the Potomac with the Kennedy Center to left.Credit: America's Coastlines.		Sculling on river or lake by bridge.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sculling

"Sculling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Sculling" is used about 10 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)	80%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	10%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sculling

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sculling": double-sculling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sculling

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
sculling	66
sculling boat	10
sculling shell	6
sculling oar	6
pole sculling	5
craftsbury sculling	5
sculling technique	5
boat sale sculling	3
sculling picture	2
camp sculling	2
sculling waterfowl	2
sculling rowing	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sculling

Language		Translations for "sculling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		艣 (sculling oar), �" (sculling oar). (various references)

Danish		vrikkeaaretold (sculling pin), hul til vrikning (sculling hole). (various references)

Dutch		wrikgat (sculling hole), wrikdol (sculling pin). (various references)

French		trou � godiller (sculling hole), tolet � godiller (sculling pin). (various references)

German		rudernd (oaring, rowing). (various references)

Greek		πείρος πρυμναίας κώπης (sculling pin), οπή κουπιού πρύμνης (sculling hole). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		伝馬船 (large sculling boat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"ませ�" (large sculling boat). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullingscay

Russian		грести гребля. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sculling

Misspellings
	"Sculling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mcquilling, Sacculina, scalling, Scallini, sceilig, Schulkins, scilling, sculi, sculpin, sculpins, sculting, scumlingo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sculling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-l-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: culling.
	-2 letters: clings, cluing, cullis, lungis, sluing.
	-3 letters: cling, clung, cuing, culls, gills, gulls, iglus, incus, lings, lungi, lungs, nills, nulls, scull, sling, slung, suing, sulci, using.
	-4 letters: cigs, cull, gill, gins, gnus, gull, guls, guns, iglu, ills, ling, lins, lugs, lung, nill, nils, null, sign, sill, sing, slug, snug, sung, unci.
	-5 letters: cig, cis, gin, gnu, gul, gun, ill, ins, lin, lis, lug, nil, nus, sic, sin, sun, uns.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-l-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: callusing, scungilli.
	+2 letters: callousing, scungillis.
	+3 letters: counselling.
	+4 letters: counsellings, gallinaceous, linguistical.
	+5 letters: cocounselling, hallucinogens, vulcanologies, vulcanologist.
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