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Tellingly

Definition: Tellingly

Tellingly

Adverb

1. In a telling manner; "the plain manner of its style all the more tellingly points up the horror of the case".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Usage Frequency: Tellingly

"Tellingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tellingly" is used about 41 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4153,521

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

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Expression: Tellingly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "tellingly": tellingly-named.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tellingly

Language Translations for "tellingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

eindrucksvoll (arrestingly, forceful, forcefully, impressive, impressively, spectacular, striking, telling). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποκαλυπτικά. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellinglytay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Tellingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tellingly" (pronounced te"linglē)
6-e" l i ng l ēcompellingly.
5-l i ng l ēappallingly, appealingly, chillingly, smilingly, startlingly, unfailingly, unwillingly, willingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, threateningly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwittingly, warningly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tellingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-l-n-t-y"

-2 letters: gillnet, telling, yelling.

-3 letters: gentil, gently, lenity, lentil, lintel, tingle, tingly.

-4 letters: elint, eying, gilly, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, liney, lingy, linty, lying, nelly, telly, tinge, tying.

-5 letters: gelt, gent, gien, gill, gilt, glen, gley, illy, inly, lent, lien, lilt, lily, line, ling, lint, liny, lite, nill, nite, tell, tile, till, tine, ting, tiny, tyin, tyne, yell, yeti, yill.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-l-n-t-y"
 

+3 letters: intelligibly.

 

+4 letters: belligerently, intelligently.

 

+5 letters: unintelligibly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tellingly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6C 6C 69 6E 67 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    .-..    .-..    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547178787580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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