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Definitions: Gangly |
GanglyAdjective1. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man". 2. Ungracefully tall and thin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GanglySynonyms: gangling (adj), lanky (adj), rangy (adj). (additional references) |
| "Gangly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Gangly" is used about 23 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) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adverb (general) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
gangly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gangly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | anglygay.(various references) | |
Russian | неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), долговязый (gangling, lanky, lathy, rangy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gangly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anagly, angly, gangel, Gangell, Gangla, gangle, gangry, Ganguli, Ganley, Gianelli, Giannelli, Guangyi, gungey, gungy, Mangly, Ngangala. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gangly" (pronounced ga"nglē) |
| 4 | -a" ng l ē | Langley. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, 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, kingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, strongly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: naggy. | |
-2 letters: agly, gang, lang, yang. | |
-3 letters: any, gag, gal, gan, gay, lag, lay, nag, nay. | |
-4 letters: ag, al, an, ay, la, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-l-n-y" | |
+2 letters: gallying, gapingly, grayling, ragingly. | |
+3 letters: gallingly, genealogy, glaringly, glengarry, gratingly, graylings, naggingly, niggardly, synagogal. | |
+4 letters: angelology, damagingly, draggingly, engagingly, flaggingly, gallerying, glancingly, gloatingly, graspingly, laughingly, organology. | |
+5 letters: agonizingly, daylighting, degradingly, fatiguingly, gynaecology, laryngology. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416780737891 |
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