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Definition: Winning |
WinningAdjective1. Bringing success; "the winning run". 2. Having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team". 3. Very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality". Noun1. Succeeding with great difficulty; "winning is not everything". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "winning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Computing | Winning win. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Mining | A. The excavation, loading, and removal of coal or ore from the ground; winning follows development b. The operation of mining an ore and opening up a new portion of a coal seam c. The portion of a coalfield laid out for working d. The combined process of excavating and transporting a raw material suchas clay to a brickworks or stockpile. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: WinningSynonyms: fetching (adj), taking (adj), victorious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly. |
Love | Lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel. |
Pain | Attraction; (motive); attractiveness, attractability; invitingness; Adjective: harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness. |
Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Do you understand me? Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) Fight club wasn't about winning or losing (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Unpleasant? Strange. I've been told I have a very winning personality (Touch of Evil; writing credit: Whit Masterson; Orson Welles) I heard that you have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do getting struck by lightning (USA High; writing credit: Bernie Ancheta; Paul Corrigan) Jimmy Greaves was controversially left out of the 1966 World Cup Final winning team (They Think It's All Over; writing credit: Bill Matthews; Shaun Pye) | |
Lyrics | '55 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) I mean she do be winning, luey spinnin (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) It’s simple, confusing, the truth is I'm winning but I'm losing (It's About Time; performing artist: LILLIX) | |
Clever | Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. (references; author: unknown) People never say, "It's only a game," when they're winning. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Winning Streak (1974) The Winning Strain (1966) Winning Widows (1961) The Winning Team (1952) Football Winning Ways (1951) | |
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 | The Department of Defense is winning a war on drugs, like Ecstasy (shown above), which started during the Vietnam War. Instances of military members' use of illegal drugs are at a 20-year low. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs). |  | Acrylic painting of a pair of Greater Scaups by James Hautman, 2015 Xanthus Lane, Plymouth, Minnesota 55447. Jim's work has been displayed in the Oval Office of the White House, The Smithsonian Institution, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and in public and private collections throughout the world. In 1990 he became the youngest artist ever to win the Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He won again in 1995 when his mallard painting received the first ever perfect score of 25. In 1998, Jim tied his own record by winning the 1999-2000 Federal Duck Stamp with another perfect score. |
 | Winning Strategies : Freedom From Smoking. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | We're winning - keep it up p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Greg Stevens.. |
 | Judges from the submarine's crew meet in the wardroom to chose the winning entry in the North Pole flag contest, during her North Pole cruise, 12 August 1958. Those present are (from left to right): Lieutenant John W. Harvey, USN; Chief Engineman Hercules H. Nicholas, USN; Commander R.F. Dobbins, Medical Corps, USN; and Chief Hospitalman John A. Aberle, USN. Credit: NAVY. |  | The crew of the cruiser's after eight-inch gun turret pose with Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, as he visited the Sixth Fleet flagship on 26 June 1957. Admiral Burke is congratulating the Turret Captain, Gunner's Mate First Class Aleckson S. Bedrosian, for his turret crew's performance in winning the Gold "E" award during surface target practice in the Mediterranean Sea on 8 June. The Gold "E", awarded to outstanding gun crews, is seen here painted on the turret side. Credit: NAVY. |
 | After winning most of the chips in a "Peace Commission Game" with the Spanish Commission, Uncle Sam points a miniature battleship at a terrified Spain. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Germans seem to be winning "The Master Race". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The award winning original Herb Dressing May serve chilled or heated / / Lynn. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Edouard A. Vysekal sketching characters from Harold Bell Wright's "The winning of Barbara Worth" for a mural, "The conquest of the desert," in the Barbara Worth Hotel, El Centro, Ca. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sailing" by Denis Nordmann Commentary: "Winning boat of Zürichseecup 2003, Switzerland - contact me for more pictures and infos." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Great leaders and dedicated followers make a winning team. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. |
Lao-Tzu | By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. |
Norman Mailer | Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. |
Vince Lombardi | Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is. |
| All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means...you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The committee selects the winning bidder. (references) | |
Price is the primary determining factor for winning these tenders. (references) | ||
In all government tenders, the key to winning the contract is pricing. (references) | ||
Economic History | Taiwan | U.S. firms have a well-established record of success in winning CTC-administered tenders. (references) |
Austria | Microsoft is winning the web-browsers duel with Netscape with about 80 percent market share. (references) | |
Taiwan | Winning the Taipei mayor's position in December 1994, significantly enhanced the DPP's image. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The Government detained several prominent political opposition candidates in order to prevent them from participating in or winning office in the 2000 parliamentary and presidential elections. (references) |
Iraq | His account supports allegations made by Sharar Haydar Mohamad Al-Hadithi, a former Iraqi international soccer player, who stated in August 1999 that he and his teammates were tortured on Uday Hussein's orders for not winning matches. (references) | |
Armenia | The commission exists essentially as a reference bureau and has no formal legal powers; however, it has had a modest impact in persuading authorities to review official actions on problems ranging from apartment allocations to police behavior, in some cases winning official reconsideration. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | The U'wa had filed several court challenges to drilling, and succeeded in winning brief delays before appeal courts ruled in favor of the Government's arrangement with Occidental. (references) |
Political Economy | GREECE | Firms from other EU member states have had a better track record than U.S. firms in winning Greek government tenders. (references) |
Ireland | Labour won 19 percent of the vote and 33 seats in the Dail in 1992, but saw its vote decline in the 1997 elections, winning only 17 seats. (references) | |
Political Rights | Gabon | Official results showed Bongo winning approximately two-thirds of the votes cast. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | The majority of complaints were made against winning candidates or their supporters. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Only 16 of the 250 winning candidates had been nominated by citizens' initiative groups. (references) | |
Trade | Turkey | Supplier financing is the key to winning these large projects. (references) |
Mexico | U.S. companies interested in competing for public sector projects financed by the IDB may maximize their chances of winning by contracting a local partner in Mexico. (references) | |
Philippines | U.S. consultants particularly enjoy an advantage over their U.K, Canadian, and Australian counterparts in winning consulting contracts under ADB's technical assistance grants. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | Australia is winning international wine awards and its wine industry's export earnings are growing exponentially. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam. Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray -- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. "'Twas Predestination," cried one -- "for the Lord Decreed he should fall of his own accord." "Not so -- 'twas Free will," the other maintained, "Which led him to choose what the Lord had ordained." So fierce and so fiery grew the debate That nothing but bloodshed their dudgeon could sate; So off flew their cassocks and caps to the ground And, moved by the spirit, their hands went round. Ere either had proved his theology right By winning, or even beginning, the fight, A gray old professor of Latin came by, A staff in his hand and a scowl in his eye, And learning the cause of their quarrel (for still As they clumsily sparred they disputed with skill Of foreordination freedom of will) Cried: "Sirrahs! this reasonless warfare compose: Atwixt ye's no difference worthy of blows. The sects ye belong to -- I'm ready to swear Ye wrongly interpret the names that they bear. You -- Infralapsarian son of a clown! -- Should only contend that Adam slipped down; While you -- you Supralapsarian pup! -- Should nothing aver but that Adam slipped up. It's all the same whether up or down You slip on a peel of banana brown. Even Adam analyzed not his blunder, But thought he had slipped on a peal of thunder! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | If you fail, you better figure out why, be honest with yourself about it, and if you succeed, be honest with yourself about why so that you can continue winning or stop the losing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Agriculture is prepared to demonstrate that it can make a peacetime contribution as great as its contribution toward the winning of the war. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | The productivity of our heads, our hands, and our hearts is the source of all the strength we can command, for both the enrichment of our lives and the winning of the peace. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | With crime and welfare rolls declining, we are winning back our optimism, the enduring faith that we can master any difficulty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Winning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.29% of the time. "Winning" is used about 3,551 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) | 74.29% | 2,638 | 3,472 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25.63% | 910 | 7,883 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,551 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "winning" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Winning | Last name | 100 | 76,092 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "winning": a winning streak ♦ bread winning ♦ draw the winning number ♦ the winning team ♦ winning back ♦ winning headway ♦ winning number ♦ winning post ♦ winning smile ♦ winning streak ♦ winning ticket ♦ winning ways. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "winning": winning-post. | |
Ending with "winning": battle-winning, championship-winning, cup-winning, gold-winning, match-winning, medal-winning, open-winning, order-winning, oscar-winning, prize-winning, promotion-winning, title-winning, trophy-winning, vote-winning, war-winning. | |
Containing "winning": prize-winning pupil, title-winning-side. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "winning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vendimtar (conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinant, determinative), para e fituar, joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winsome), fitues (prevailing, successful, Victor, victorious, winner), fitime. (various references) | |
Arabic | فوز (gaining, success, victory), 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, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winsome, zestful), كسب (acquire, acquiring, acquisition, attain, earn, earning, gain, gaining, get, get smth. off one's hands, harvest, obtain, obtaining, prize, profit, reap, win), منجم الفحم الحجري, ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winsome, zestful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спечелване (conciliation), спечелено нещо, решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter), който побеждава, който печели, очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winsome), победа (battle, coup, defeat, victory), печеливш. (various references) | |
Chinese | 赢取 (WON), 優勝 (superior). (various references) | |
Czech | zisk (earnings, emolument, gain, lucre, profit), vyhrávající, vítìzný (palmy, triumphal, victorious), výhra (prize, victory, win), rozhodující (chief, commanding, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, fatal, main, predominant, supreme, vital), poutavý (absorbing, arresting, attractive, catchy, exciting, griping, gripping, intriguing, thrilling), podmanivý (bewitching, engaging, suggestive), příjemný (agreeable, congenial, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, good, jolly, neighborly, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winsome), milý (agreeable, appealing, bonny, congenial, dear, decent, gratifying, heartthrob, kind, lovable, love, man, nice, own). (various references) | |
Danish | udvinding (coal-getting), kuludvinding (coal-getting), brydning (aberration, coal-getting, crushing, diffraction, fragmentation, getting, grinding, refraction, stoping, work). (various references) | |
Dutch | winning (coal-getting, extraction, getting, stoping, work, working), afbouw (coal-getting, finishing, finishing stages). (various references) | |
Finnish | olla voitonpuolella (be winning, have the advantage), maali (aim, finish, goal, paint, purpose, target, winning-post). (various references) | |
French | victorieux. (various references) | |
German | siegreich (conquering, conqueringly, palmy, successful, triumphant, victorious, victoriously). (various references) | |
Greek | κερδίζων (gainer), εργοτάξια (coal-getting, face, production district, workings), εξόρυξη μεταλλεύματος (blasting, coal-getting, getting, mining, stoping), εξόρυξη με κοπή (coal-getting, face, production district, workings), επιτυχήσ (felicitous, successful), ελκυστικόσ (attractive, buxom, catching, desirable, engaging, inviting, prepossessing, taking, winsome). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקסים (catching, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, stunning, winsome), שובה לב (captivating, enthralling, fetching, taking), זכיה (gaining, jackpot, privilege, right, win). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyertes (winner), nyerõ (gaining), nyerés, nyerő (gainer, top notch, winner), megnyerés, gyõzõ, győztes (top dog, vanquisher, victor, winner), győzelem (payoff, pay-off, smashing victory, triumph, victory, win). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemenangan, kemenangan (conquest, triumph, victory). (various references) | |
Italian | vittorioso (victorious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 受賞 , 懸賞 (offering prizes, reward). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けんしょう (charter, displaying, energy, epaulet, epaulette, good health, honouring, inspection, manifesting, offering prizes, pep, refer to modestly, revealing or demonstrating the truth, reward, sheath of tendon, shoulder strap, spirit, verification), じゅしょう (awarding a prize, reception of a decoration or order). (various references) | |
Korean | 이김. (various references) | |
Manx | post cosnee (winning post). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inningway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vitorioso (triumphant, victorious), vitória (battle, palm, triumph, victoria, victory, win), vencedor (master, vanquisher, victor, victorious, winner), triunfo (palm, success, triumph, victory), sedutor (alluring, betrayer, bewitching, enticing, leading, lovelace, lovely, magnetic, seductive, siren, winsome, witching), premiado (laureate, prizewinner, prizewinning), insinuante (ingratiating, silky, suggestive, winsome), extração (abstraction, avulsion, evulsion, extraction), desmonte (dismount), decisivo (closing, conclusive, crucial, decisive, definitive, determinative, final, forthright, incisive, peremptory, striking), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references) | |
Romanian | victorios (palmy, triumphantly, victorious, victoriously), victorie la o întrecere, seducãtor (enticing, fascinating, seducer, seductive, seductively, tempting), graţios (airily, daintily, flowing, graceful, gracefully, light, lightly, neat, sightly, thoroughbred, winsome), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender), decisiv (conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, definitive, determinant, determinative, fateful, final, ultimate), câştigãtor (gainer, prizeman, winner), câştig la joc, bani câştigaţi, atrãgãtor (alluring, attractive, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, luscious, magnetic, pleasing, prepossessing, seemly, sweet, taking, winsome). (various references) | |
Russian | выигрыш (prize, win), выигрывать победа победивший, победа (narrow victory, near victory, victory, win). (various references) | |
Scottish | buinnig. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, sexy, toothsome, winsome), pobedonosan (triumphant, victor, victorious), pobeda (slam, triumph, victory, win). (various references) | |
Spanish | victorioso (triumphant, victorious), vencedor (conquering, conqueror, top dog, vanquisher, Victor, victorious), triunfador (triumphant, winner), premiado (prize, prizewinner, prizewinning), pica (pica, pike), encantador (charming, delightful, disarming, enchanter, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magician, ravishing, taking), despile (blasting, coal-getting, getting, mining, stoping), derribo (throw), arranque (blaze, dash, jerk, light, outbreak, outburst, pulling out, run, Sally, skewback, spasm). (various references) | |
Swedish | vinnande (catching, endearing, pleasing, prepossessing). (various references) | |
Turkish | sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, charming, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, cute, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, prettily, pretty, sapid, sympathetic, winsome), kazanma (achievement, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, earning, gaining, obtainment, win), kazandıran, kazanan (conquering, conqueror, gainer, top dog, Victor, winner), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winsome), galibiyet (victory, win), dostça (amicable, amicably, comradely, friendly, in a friendly manner, neighborly, neighbourly), birinci olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що виграв, вирішальний (all in all, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinant, determinative, fateful, final), виграш (bacon, gain, gainings, prize, win), видобуток (educt, output, out-turn, production), завоювання (conquest), привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winsome). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thắng cuộc quyết định, sự thắng cuộc (victory, win, won), sự thắng, quyến rũ (alluring, appealing, captivating, catching, fascinating, luringly, seducing, taking, winningly, winsome), lôi cuốn (alluring, arrestingly, attractive, catching, catchy, tempting, winningly), dứt khoát hấp dẫn, được cuộc. (various references) | |
Welsh | buddugol (victorious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "winning": winningly, winnings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "winning": breadwinning, electrowinning, nonwinning, prizewinning, rewinning, twinning. (additional references) | |
Words containing "winning": breadwinnings, electrowinnings, twinnings. (additional references) | |
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"Winning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: swanning, wannian, wanning, whinning, wineing, winnen, wrining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "winning" (pronounced wi"ning) |
| 4 | -i" n i ng | beginning, binning, Dinning, finning, ginning, grinning, inning, pinning, sinning, spinning, thinning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, bemoaning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, glistening, governing, greening, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-w" | |
-1 letter: inning, wining. | |
-3 letters: wing. | |
-4 letters: gin, inn, wig, win. | |
-5 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-w" | |
+1 letter: twinning, winnings. | |
+2 letters: entwining, enwinding, intwining, inwinding, rewinning, twinnings, untwining, unwinding, whinnying, winningly, winnowing. | |
+3 letters: nonwinning. | |
+4 letters: windburning. | |
+5 letters: breadwinning, handwringing, intertwining, prizewinning. | |
| 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. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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