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Definition: Inkling |
InklingNoun1. A slight suggestion; "he had no inkling what was about to happen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inkling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonym: InklingSynonym: intimation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,. |
Information | Hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink; (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear. |
Hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture; (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; insinuation; (latency). | |
Knowledge | Light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression; (idea); discovery; a. |
Supposition | Inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inkling |
| English words defined with "inkling": intimation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here (Flash Gordon; writing credit: Michael Allin; Alex Raymond) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Inkling" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inkling" is used about 141 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 141 | 26,682 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inkling": an inkling of truth ♦ get an inkling of ♦ have an inkling of smth.. 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 |
the inkling | 21 |
creative inkling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inkling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ide e vagët, romuz, aluzion (allusion, cue, hint, innuendo, intimation, pointing, reference). (various references) | |
Arabic | معرفة محدودة, شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слабо понятие, неясно понятие, намек (allusion, cue, dig, feeler, half word, hint, indirection, insinuation, intimation, office, pointer, side glance, suggestion, tip off, wink), загатване (allusion, implication), леко съмнение, леко подозрение. (various references) | |
Chinese | 微微觉得. (various references) | |
Czech | tušení (flair, guess, hunch, notion, presentiment, suspicion, vibes), ponìtí, náznak (evidence, hint, implication, insinuation, intimation, overtones, savor, smack, suggestion, suspicion, trace, undertone). (various references) | |
Farsi | پی (Nerve, Scent, Sinew, Substratum), کوره خبر, گزارش (Account, Hearing, Report, Story), خبر (Advice, Call, Hearsay, Idea, Manifest, News, Notice, Predicate, Word), اگاهی (Acquaintance, Advice, Cognizance, Dope, Idea, Immediacy, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception), اطلاع مختصری که باان به چیزی پی برند, اشاره (Allusion, Beck, Beckon, Ensign, Gesture, Hint, Innuendo, Manifest, Mention, Referral, Slur, Symbol). (various references) | |
Finnish | saada vihiä jostakin (get an inkling of, get wind of). (various references) | |
French | idée (insight), vague (incomprehensible, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable), soupçon, petite idée. (various references) | |
German | dunkle ahnung. (various references) | |
Greek | νύξη (allusion), μικρή ιδέα περί κάποιου, μικρή ιδέα περί τίνοσ, υπαινιγμόσ (allusion, hint, implication, insinuation, intimation, suggestion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמץ של מושג, רמז (allusion, clue, cue, hint, implication, indication, intimation, sign, tinge, tip, tip off, wink, winking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sejtelem (presage, presentiment, suspicion), gyanú (suspicion), célzás (allusion, aim, cue, hint). (various references) | |
Italian | accenno (allusion, hint, intimation, nod, reference, sign). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 感づく (to apprehend, to get an inkling, to smell), 感付く (to apprehend, to get an inkling, to smell), させ子 (candid, clean, feeling refreshed, feeling relieved, frank, fresh, have no inkling of, neat, now, quickly, relief, some time ago, suddenly, then, trimmed, well, whore). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さっぱりわからない (have no inkling of), かんづく (to apprehend, to get an inkling, to scent, to sense, to smell, to suspect). (various references) | |
Manx | sonnish (susurrate, whisper), fou (hearsay, hint, inference, report, rumour). (various references) | |
Norwegian | anelse (hunch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inklingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | indcio leve, idia vaga, suspeita (suspicion), pressentimento (augury, feeling, foreboding, hunch, misgiving, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise, suspicion), aluzie (allusion, gentle reminder, half word, hint, pointing, reference, reminder, suggestion). (various references) | |
Russian | слабое подозрение, намек (allusion, hint, soupcon), догадка (conjecture, guess, guesswork, guess-work). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naziranje, nagoveštaj (announcement, half word, hint, indication, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, telltale), mig (forty winks, hint, insinuation, nod, sign, wink). (various references) | |
Spanish | indicio (index, indication), atisbo. (various references) | |
Swedish | aning (scantling, smattering, suspicion, trace). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเฉลียวใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), ipucu (clew, clue, hint, trace, wrinkle), sezme (anticipation, discernment, divination, flair, insight, perception, percipience, precognition, sense), kuşkulanma, kestirme (catnap, direct, fourty winks, lay down, lie down, nap, short, shortcut, shut eye, zizz). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обережний натяк, невиразне уявлення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lời gợi ý xa xôi sự hiểu biết qua loa, ý niệm mơ hồ sự nghi nghi hoặc hoặc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | heliodori, heliodorum, odor, odore, odorem, odoremque, odores, odoribus, odoris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inkling": inklings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inkling": besprinkling, crinkling, sprinkling, tinkling, twinkling, winkling, wrinkling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inkling": sprinklings, tinklings, twinklings. (additional references) | |
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"Inkling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ankling, Inglind, inklen, inkli, Inkpin, Niklin, Onkelinx. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inkling" (pronounced i"ngkling) |
| 6 | i" ng k l i ng | sprinkling. |
| 5 | -ng k l i ng | rankling. |
| 4 | -k l i ng | buckling, chronicling, chuckling, crackling, duckling, heckling, pickling, sparkling, strickling, suckling, swashbuckling, tackling, trickling, weakling. |
| 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, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, 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, 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, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, 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, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, 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, rifling, 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, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, surveilling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, 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: kilning, linking. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: inking, lignin, liking, lining. | |
-2 letters: kinin, linin. | |
-3 letters: gink, kiln, king, ling, link, linn. | |
-4 letters: gin, ilk, ink, inn, kin, lin, nil. | |
-5 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: blinking, clinking, inklings, kindling, likening, nickling, plinking, slinking, tinkling, winkling. | |
+2 letters: crinkling, kindlings, nickeling, relinking, tinklings, twinkling, unlinking, wrinkling. | |
+3 letters: blinkering, clinkering, enkindling, kingliness, nickelling, rekindling, sprinkling, stinkingly, thinkingly, twinklings, unblinking. | |
+4 letters: balkanizing, folksinging, linebacking, painkilling, sickeningly, sprinklings. | |
+5 letters: alkalinizing, besprinkling, folksingings, hyperlinking, interlinking, interlocking, kinglinesses, knightliness, linebackings, unblinkingly, unthinkingly. | |
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