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BEGAT

Definition: BEGAT

BEGAT

1. Of Beget

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BEGAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

 

Crosswords: BEGAT

Etymologies containing "BEGAT": Beget. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BEGAT

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: BEGAT

"BEGAT" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "BEGAT" is used about 11 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
Lexical Verb (base form)72.73%8124,375
Noun (singular)27.27%3202,518
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEGAT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

begat

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BEGAT

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

Hungarian

  

kelt (begotten, cause, given, leavened, to arouse, to beget, to call forth, to create, to disgust, to restart). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egatbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: BEGAT

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 11, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ezhsen falek ekaton triakonta eth kai egennhsen ton ragau
Latin405VulgateVixit quoque Faleg triginta annis et genuit Reu
Middle English1395WyclifPhaleth forsothe lyuede thritti wynter, and gat Reu;
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd Peleg when he was .xxx. yere olde begat Regu
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Basic English1964OgdenAnd Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

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

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Matched Bible Translations: BEGAT

LanguageGenesis Chapter 11, Verse 18
CebuanoUg nakadangat si Peleg ug katloan ka tuig, ug nanganak siya kang Reu.
CroatianKad je Pelegu bilo trideset godina, rodi mu se Reu.
DutchEn Peleg leefde dertig jaren, en hij gewon Rehu.
FinnishKun Peleg oli kolmenkymmenen vuoden vanha, syntyi hänelle Regu.
FrenchPéleg, âgé de trente ans, engendra Rehu.
GermanPeleg war dreißig Jahre alt und zeugte Regu
Haitian CreolePelèg te gen trantan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Reou.
HungarianPéleg pedig harmincz esztendõs vala, és nemzé Réut.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka Peleg hidup tiga puluh tahun, lalu beranak Rehu.
MaoriA ka toru tekau nga tau o Pereke, ka whanau a Reu:
NorwegianDa Peleg var tretti år gammel, fikk han sønnen Re'u.
PortuguesePelegue viveu trinta anos, e gerou a Reú.   
RumanianLa vkrsta de treizeci de ani, Peleg a nqscut pe Reu.
RussianжБМЕЛ ЦЙМ ФТЙÐ"Ð"БФШ МЕФ Й ТПÐ"ЙМ тБЗБЧБ.
SwedishNär Peleg var trettio år gammal, födde han Regu.

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

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Misspellings: BEGAT

Misspellings

"BEGAT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baget, bayat, beag, Beatt, begad, begal, begate, begats, begetr, beggeth, begi, begint, Begio, begit, Begob, begod, begote, Benat, Bengate, berat, Berget, besat, Biga, Bigah, bigat, biget, Biggate, bigit, Bitat, Blegvad, buga, Bugar, buget, egat, fegat, regat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BEGAT"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BEGAT" (pronounced biga"t)
3-g a" tGat.

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Anagrams: BEGAT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-t"

-1 letter: abet, bate, beat, beta, gate, geta.

-2 letters: age, ate, bag, bat, beg, bet, eat, eta, gab, gae, gat, get, tab, tae, tag, tea, teg.

-3 letters: ab, ae, ag, at, ba, be, et, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-t"
 

+1 letter: baguet.

 

+2 letters: baguets, banteng, beating, gabfest, getable, globate, megabit.

 

+3 letters: abetting, ablegate, abnegate, abrogate, absterge, agitable, baggiest, baguette, bantengs, barghest, barguest, beatings, berating, bergamot, betaking, bijugate, bleating, braggest, bregmata, bregmate, cabotage, debating, gabbiest, gabfests, gettable, gigabyte, glabrate, globated, gustable, megabits, megabyte, obligate, rebating, sabotage, subagent, substage, tabering, tangible.

 

+4 letters: ablegates, abnegated, abnegates, abnegator, abrogated, abrogates, absenting, absterged, absterges, arbitrage, backstage, bagatelle, baguettes, bantering, barghests, barguests, bartering, basseting, battening, battering, beastings, benignant, bergamots, betraying, braggiest, breasting, breathing, budgetary, cabotages, carpetbag, cogitable, eggbeater, eightball, fatigable, geobotany, getatable, gigabytes, grabbiest, grantable, grubstake, gustables, ignitable, litigable, litterbag, megabytes, objurgate, obligated, obligates, rabbeting, rebaiting, sabotaged, sabotages, stageable, subagents, subjugate, subrogate, substages, tableting, tangibles, vegetable, vegetably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEGAT


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

42 45 47 41 54

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)

01000010 01000101 01000111 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#71 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0047 0041 0054

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

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

3639413554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Bible Trace
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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