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Definition: Trifling |
TriflingAdjective1. Not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter". Noun1. The deliberate act of wasting time instead of working. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trifling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: TriflingSynonyms: negligible (adj), paltry (adj), dalliance (n), dawdling (n), wasting time (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective, inconsequential, trifling, nugatory; inefficient; (impotent); insufficient; unavailing; (useless); of no effect. |
Imbecility Folly | Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness. |
Neglect | Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error). |
Unimportance | Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water. |
Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel. | |
Wit | Word-play, jeu de mots; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente, double entendre; (ambiguity); quibble, verbal quibble; conundrum; (riddle); anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trifling |
| English words defined with "trifling": Boy's play ♦ chickenfeed, Child's play ♦ dally, Desipient ♦ Fangle, Flea-bite, Foddle-faddle, Fribble, Frible, Futilous ♦ Immoment, In idle, Inconcerning ♦ Kickshaws ♦ Leptology ♦ Man milliner ♦ negligible, Nugacity, Nugation, Nugify ♦ paltry, Peddlery, pettiness, Petty officer, play, Prittle-prattle ♦ Quiddle ♦ Scrapepenny, sixpenny, small change, small talk, Snaphance ♦ threepenny, Tilly-vally, To make nothing of, Toyer, Toyful, Toyish, Toysome, trifle, tuppeny, Twaddy, two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trifling": Annoy ♦ Beef ♦ DANDY PRAT ♦ Fever, Fiddle About, Foot-notes, FRIG PIG ♦ Knots ♦ Lobster Sauce ♦ Marvedie, Meals ♦ TO FRIG, Transfiguration. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trifling": Toysome. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I regret trifling with married women, I'm thoroughly ashamed at cheating at cards, I deplore my occasional departures from the truth, Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday Sloth (The Cowboys; writing credit: William Dale Jennings; Irving Ravetch) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trifling with Honor (1923) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. |
Lord Chesterfield | A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. |
Thackeray | Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions. |
Titus Livy | Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. |
William Cowper | It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | My acquaintance with him has been but trifling. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Nothing is too small or too trifling to undergo this change, and acquire dignity thereby |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The labor of taking them would be a trifling addition to that already prescribed, and the result would exhibit comparative tables of longevity highly interesting to the country. |
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| "Trifling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Trifling" is used about 82 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.78% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "trifling". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nehushtan | N/A | Biblical | A trifling thing of brass |
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Expressions using "trifling": it's no trifling matter ♦ trifling dear at any price ♦ trifling mistake. 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 |
trifling | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "trifling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, pinpoint, potty, puny, slight, teeny, tiny, wee, wispy), i papërfillshëm (hole-in-the-wall, inconsiderable, naught, negligible, niggling, pettifogging, petty, potty), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشتت, حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), عابث (frivolous, frolicsome, pixie, pixy, sporty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), нищожен (exiguous, footling, insignificant, miserable, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trivial), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, two-by-four, unimportant), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references) | |
Chinese | 輶 (light carriage), ' (fragmentary), 瑣 (fragmentary), 些許 . (various references) | |
Czech | triviální (banal, frivolous, piddling, platitudinous, trivial), nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, scanty, slight, slim, small, thin), bezvýznamný (inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, null, pointless, poor, small time), bezcenný (frippery, gimcrack, nugatory, trashy, valueless, worthless). (various references) | |
Dutch | onbeduidend (insignificant, meaningless, minor), luizig (insignificant, minor), beuzelachtig (insignificant, minor). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bagatela (insignificant). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyhjänpäiväinen (insignificant), turhanpäiväinen (futile, trivial), vähäpätöinen (insignificant, of little importance, slight, trivial, unimportant), joutavan pieni (trivial). (various references) | |
French | paresseux (truant), négligeable, mineur, mesquin, insignifiant (trivial), futile (trivial), dispersé. (various references) | |
German | unbedeutend (fractional, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderably, insignificant, minimal, minor, negligible, nonsignificant, obscure, of no account, petit, pettily, petty, piddling, trivial, trivially, unimportant). (various references) | |
Greek | μηδαμινόσ (insignificant, minimal, nugatory, null and void, paltry, petty, piccaroon, trivial), ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trivial, unessential, unimportant), τιποτένιοσ (chaffy, measly, paltry, petty, piddling, scamp, scummy, trashy, two-penny, worthless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | של מ" בכך (piffling), קל ערך (light weight, petty, trivial), בלתי שו" (unworthy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csekély (baseness, meager, meagre, nominal, paltry, petty, scant, slight, slim), komolytalanság (flippancy, frivolity, levity), könnyelműség (folly, frivolity, giddiness, improvidence, lightheadedness), jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, fiddle-faddle, footling, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, jerkwater, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trivial, unimportant, venial), felületesség (dereliction, desultoriness, flightiness, frivolity, smattering, superficiality). (various references) | |
Italian | piccolo (brief, child, cub, diminutive, little, little one, low, mean, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, young), irrisorio (derisive, ridiculous), irrilevante (immaterial, insignificant, peddling), insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, potty, slight, trivial), futile (futile, nugatory, peddling, piffling, shallow, trivial), frivolo (flimsy, flippant, frivolous, light minded, nugatory, shallow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 零細 (insignificant, paltry). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たわいない (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, guileless, silly), な"でもない (easy, harmless), ぐ"しょう (army commander, minor, petty), ひしょう (flight, flying, grief, petty, soaring, spending, this wretch, you wretch), さしょう (false statement, few, little, misrepresentation, slight, visa), さまつ (trivial), ささたる (trivial), つまらない (boring, insignificant), かりそめ (neglecting, negligence, slighting, temporariness, transience, trifle), "うしょ (broad view, elevation, facing the heat, government office, heights, high altitude, interpretation of a book, neglecting, purchased books, purchasing books, slighting), れいさい (a tiny bit, annual festival, insignificant, paltry, regular festival), けいしょう (accession, alarm bell, court nobles and state ministers, figure, fire bell, image, inheritance, minor illness, minor injury, nimble, picturesque scenery, scenic beauty, shape, slight, strong and nimble, succession, title of honour). (various references) | |
Manx | speilleigagh (idle, indolent), myn- (diminutive, elaborate, exhaustive, filings, lesser, little, minute, niggling, petty, prefix diminutive), frittagh (banal, bird-witted, brainless, frivolous, inconstant), fardailagh (empty, empty of words, frivolous, fruitless, futile, trivial, unavailing, vain, vain of hope), creen (decayed, diminutive, ripe, sapless, withered), begganagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iflingtray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trivial, unimportant, wispy). (various references) | |
Romanian | uşuratic (airily, airy, careless, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, glib, light minded, light-mindedly, thoughtless, volatile), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trivial), neînlãturat (trivial), mãrunt (chopping, incidental, light, loose, mincing, paltry, peddling, petty, piffling, small, tiny), fãrã importanţã (inconsiderable, insignificant, of no interest, of no moment, peddling, trivial). (various references) | |
Russian | пустяковый (footling, peddling, picayune, piddling, poxy, rubbishy, small beer). (various references) | |
Scottish | suarach (insignificant, of little account, of no repute), fathanach, fadharsach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sitan (minute, petty, piddling, small, trivial, wee), beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trivial, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant). (various references) | |
Spanish | fútil (fiddling, futile, inane). (various references) | |
Swedish | skämt (banter, booby-trap, foul, fun, funny, gag, jape, jest, jesting, joke, jokes, joking, lark, pleasantry, wheeze), ringa (call, chime, clang, dial, exiguous, humble, insubstantial, little, low, lowly, modest, peal, petty, ring, scant, scanty, slight, small, telephone, toll), obertydling, lek (dalliance, game, pack, play, spawning, sport), lättsinnig (fickle, frivolous, giddy, irresponsible, light, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, naughty, sporty, thoghtless, wanton). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, not healthy, one horse, paltry, peanut, petit, petty, piddling, poky, remote, slight, small, snug, tiddly, trivial, undersized, young, younger), hoppa (flighty, flippant, flyaway, fop, frivolous, gay, giddy, hoity toity, perky, skittish), üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ownukзyl (petty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нікчемний (contemptible, futile, gewgaw, no-account, not worth a damn, paltry, piffling, punk, riff raff, scrubby, shabby, unworthy), марнування часу (dawdle, kill time, lounge), жартування (badinage, chaff, raillery), дріб'язковий (cheeseparing, fribble, mean-spirited, near, niggling, nugacious, nugatory, penny-wise, pettifogging, piddling, toy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, often, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trivial, unsatisfactory, usual, vulgar), vặt, không quan trọng (here, insignificant, jerkwater, minor, unimportant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | frivolus, levana, leve, levem, levi, levia, leviora, leviores, levis, levius, leviusque, pusilla, pusillae, pusilli, pusillis, pusillo, pusillorum, pusillos, pusillum, pusillus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trifling": triflings. (additional references) | |
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"Trifling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brifling, trialing, tribling, triffling, trifiling, Triflon, triglon, Triklone, trilding, Trilyn, troffling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trifling" (pronounced trī"fling) |
| 6 | -r ī" f l i ng | rifling. |
| 5 | -ī" f l i ng | stifling. |
| 4 | -f l i ng | shuffling, waffling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, 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, dissembling, 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, rambling, 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, 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, shuttling, sibling, 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, 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, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flirting. | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fliting, lifting, rifling, rifting, tirling. | |
-2 letters: filing, firing, nitril, riling, tiling, tiring. | |
-3 letters: fling, flint, flirt, glint, grift, iring. | |
-4 letters: firn, flit, frig, frit, gift, gilt, girl, girn, girt, grin, grit, inti, lift, ling, lint, liri, rift, ring, ting, tirl, trig. | |
-5 letters: fig, fil, fin, fir, fit, gin, git, lin, lit, nil, nit, rif, rig. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: filtering, firstling, triflings. | |
+2 letters: airlifting, driftingly, filtrating, firstlings, flittering. | |
+3 letters: fertilizing, flichtering, forklifting, interfiling, refiltering, reinflating. | |
+4 letters: electrifying, fibrillating, fluoridating, fluorinating, frangibility, gratifyingly, infiltrating, interfolding, terrifyingly. | |
+5 letters: filibustering, fortnightlies, frighteningly, glorification, infuriatingly, overinflating, proliferating. | |
| 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. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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