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Definition: Spellbinding |
SpellbindingAdjective1. Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SpellbindingSynonyms: hypnotic (adj), mesmeric (adj), mesmerizing (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spellbinding |
| English words defined with "spellbinding": hypnotic ♦ mesmeric, mesmerizing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spellbinding": spellbind. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Spellbinding pity, but the story's still yours. (On the Line; writing credit: Eric Aronson; Paul Stanton) | |
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| "Spellbinding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Spellbinding" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "spellbinding": ever-spellbinding. | |
| 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 |
circle spellbinding | 7 |
from glow released spellbinding within | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spellbinding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | γοητευτικός (captivating, charming, fascinating, stunning), μαγευτικός (enchanting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lenyűgöző hatású. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellbindingspay очаровывать очаровывающий. (various references) fascinante (bewitching, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamorous, gripping), cautivador (captivating, enthralling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spellbinding": spellbindingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spellbinding" (pronounced spe"lbī'nding) |
| 5 | -ī' n d i ng | masterminding. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, amending, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, banding, bending, binding, blending, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, condescending, confounding, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, demanding, depending, descending, disbanding, ending, expanding, expending, expounding, extending, fending, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, impending, intending, landing, lending, longstanding, mending, minding, misspending, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outspending, outstanding, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pounding, pretending, rebounding, recommending, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sending, sounding, spending, standing, stranding, surrounding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unwinding, upstanding, vending, wending, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-p-s" | |
-2 letters: dispelling. | |
-3 letters: spellbind, spindling. | |
-4 letters: bielding, billings, bindings, blending, blinding, enisling, ensiling, inbeings, indigens, libeling, pindling, sideling, snelling, speiling, spelling, spending, spieling, spilling, splining. | |
-5 letters: belling, bending, billies, billing, binding, bindles, dillies, dingies, dingles, eliding, endings, engilds, gillied, gillies, gipsied, inbeing, indigen, insigne, lending, lensing, lignins, lindens, lindies, linings, lipides, lisping, nilling, peining, peising. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-p-s" | |
+2 letters: spellbindingly. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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