TANGLY

  

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TANGLY

Definitions: TANGLY

TANGLY

Adjective

1. Covered with tangle, or seaweed.

2. Entangled; intricate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Usage Frequency: TANGLY

"TANGLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TANGLY" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Modern Translations: TANGLY

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

Albanian

  

i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tricky, woozy), i koklavitur (complicated, inextricable, involute, mazy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏معقد (busy, complicate, complicated, convoluted, deep, difficult, doctrinarian, entangled, inextricable, intricacy, intricate, invalid, involute, knotted, knotty, nasty, perplexing, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tricky). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сложен (aggregate, complex, complicated, compound, convoluted, daedalian, elaborate, integrate, intricate, knotty, multiplex, perplexed, perplexing, sinuous, subtle, tricky), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), заплетен (anfractuous, complex, convoluted, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, sinuous, tortuous). (various references)

   

German

  

verwickelt (complicated, confused, convoluted, embroils, entangled, entangles, foul, implicates, inextricable, intricate, intricately, involved, involves, knotty), dicht verwachsen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περίπλοκοσ (complicated, elaborate, involved, snarly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hínáros. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anglytay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

enredado (involved in debt), emaranhado (matted, mazy, medley), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturber, dizzy, hugger mugger, indistinguishable, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddy, obscure, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), com ervas aquáticas. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, embroiled, entangled, implex, inextricable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, perplexed). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zamršen (complicated, knotted, knotty, perplexed), upetljan (embroiled, entangled, involved). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rắc rối (complex, complicated, involute, involved, perplexed, perplexity), rối rắm (daedal, daedalian, mazy), rối (untidy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TANGLY"

Words rhyming with "TANGLY" (pronounced 'Tan"gly'): Giggly, jungly, shingly, singly, spangly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TANGLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-t-y"

-1 letter: tangy.

-2 letters: agly, gnat, lang, tang, yang.

-3 letters: alt, ant, any, gal, gan, gat, gay, lag, lat, lay, nag, nay, tag, tan.

-4 letters: ag, al, an, at, ay, la, na, ta, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-t-y"
 

+1 letter: gauntly.

 

+2 letters: antilogy, takingly, tallying, tangibly, taxingly.

 

+3 letters: acylating, anthology, cognately, elegantly, gallantly, gallantry, geniality, genitally, gratingly, haltingly, lastingly, malignity, naughtily, outlaying, plaything, pratingly, rantingly, strangely, teasingly, vagrantly.

 

+4 letters: alkylating, angularity, arrogantly, autolysing, autolyzing, butylating, catalyzing, dauntingly, ethylating, exactingly, flagrantly, fragrantly, generality, gloatingly, gyrational, hauntingly, ignorantly, intangibly, integrally, laryngitic, laryngitis, lengthways, negatively, nematology, outplaying, plangently, playacting, playthings, poignantly, pregnantly, rattlingly, scathingly, slantingly, stagnantly, tallyhoing, tauntingly, trigonally, vaultingly, vauntingly, vigilantly.

 

+5 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, affectingly, amblygonite, angioplasty, arrestingly, banteringly, benignantly, conjugality, conjugately, daylighting, falteringly, fatiguingly, flauntingly, genetically, genitivally, genotypical, gentlemanly, glycerinate, granularity, granulocyte, hairstyling, indignantly, inelegantly, integrality, interlaying, longanimity, malignantly, marginality, methylating, multiagency, narratology, neonatology, octagonally, onomatology, originality, placatingly, planetology, playactings, playwriting, prattlingly, repugnantly, segmentally, singularity, startlingly, tangibility, thanatology, tracklaying, ungallantly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TANGLY


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

54 41 4E 47 4C 59

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 01000001 01001110 01000111 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0041 004E 0047 004C 0059

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

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

543548414659

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INDEX

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


  

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