BLENCHING

Definition: BLENCHING

BLENCHING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Blench

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BLENCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Usage Frequency: BLENCHING

"BLENCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BLENCHING" is used about 3 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)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

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

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Modern Translations: BLENCHING

Language		Translations for "BLENCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		zurückschreckend (boggling). (various references)

Pig Latin		enchingblay

Scottish		tiomadh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BLENCHING

Misspellings
	"BLENCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blenkharn, Blenkin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLENCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: belching, benching.
	-2 letters: leching.
	-3 letters: benign, blench, eching, lichen.
	-4 letters: begin, being, belch, bench, benni, bilge, binge, chiel, chile, chine, cline, cling, genic, hinge, ingle, linen, neigh, niche.
	-5 letters: bice, bile, bine, blin, ceil, chin, cine, elhi, gibe, gien, glen, glib, heil, inch, lech, lice, lich, lien, line, ling, linn, nice, nigh, nine.
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