DOWLING

Date "DOWLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dowling (Captain). A character in Crabbe's Borough; a great drunkard, who died in his cups. " `Come, fill my glass.' He took it and he went" (i.e. died). Letter xvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987)
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Domain	Title
Books	Abracadaver: A Father Dowling Mystery (reference) Bishop As Pawn: A Father Dowling Mystery (reference) Desert Sinner: A Father Dowling Mystery (Thorndike Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Grave Undertakings: A Father Dowling Mystery (reference) Judas Priest (A Father Dowling Mystery) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Richard Dowling Plays Chopin (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Dowl-It 2000 Deluxe Dowling Jig (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Bernard John Dowling Irwin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Archbishop Dowling, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Monaghan Plant School, Greenville, North Carolina] / Dowling. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"DOWLING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.53% of the time. "DOWLING" is used about 59 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 (proper)	91.53%	54	46,184
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	8.47%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "DOWLING" 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
Dowling	Last name	5,000	2,305
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Dowling, MI
Zip Code(s): 49050
Country: USA

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Expression: DOWLING

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "DOWLING": whitaker-dowling.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOWLING

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
dowling college	221	james dowling	4
dowling	86	dowling j wesley	4
dowling high school	26	dowling middle school	3
leilani dowling	14	patrick dowling	3
dowling magnet	9	college.edu dowling	3
father dowling mystery	9	dowling insurance	3
dowling university	9	dowling aaron keeler	3
dowling mi	7	dowling college ny	3
dowling graphic	7	dowling dr	3
dowling ford	6	college.com dowling	3
michael dowling	6	associate dowling	3
father dowling	6	tom dowling	3
dowling partner	6	dowling park	2
dowling toyota	6	chris dowling	2
dowling kerr	6	kevin dowling	2
brian dowling	5	des dowling moines west	2
dowling real estate	5	dowling harlem	2
mike dowling	5	william dowling	2
john dowling	4	colette dowling	2
timothy dowling	4	terry dowling	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: DOWLING

Misspellings
	"DOWLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ddwli, Dowlen, Dowlin, Jowling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DOWLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-l-n-o-w"
	-1 letter: doling, dowing, lowing.
	-2 letters: dingo, doing, indol, indow, lingo, owing.
	-3 letters: ding, diol, dong, down, gild, glow, gold, gowd, gown, idol, lido, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, nodi, noil, wild, wind, wing, wino, wold.
	-4 letters: dig, din, dog, dol, don, dow, gid, gin, god, ion, lid, lin, log, low, nil, nod, nog, now.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-l-n-o-w"
	+1 letter: doweling.
	+2 letters: dewooling, dowelling, worldling.
	+3 letters: landowning, worldlings.
	+4 letters: deflowering, disallowing, disboweling, downloading, downplaying, downrightly, downscaling, landownings, wildfowling, withholding.
	+5 letters: bowdlerising, bowdlerizing, disbowelling, misknowledge, wildfowlings.
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