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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Farm Bureau (American Farm Bureau Federation). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FB | Danish | Kredittilsagn | Finance |
FB | English | Foster Brothers Clothing Company Limited | N/A |
FB | French | Franc belge | Finance |
Fb | Italian | Franco belga | Finance |
| FB Sugar | English | Fasting Blood Sugar | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "FB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "FB" is used about 14 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) | 78.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Sweden | FB Industri Holding AB |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "FB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 反馈 (feedback). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | fbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "FB": goofball, goofballs, halfback, halfbacks, halfbeak, halfbeaks, hoofbeat, hoofbeats, offbeat, offbeats, puffball, puffballs, snuffbox, snuffboxes, surfbird, surfbirds, surfboard, surfboarded, surfboarder, surfboarders, surfboarding, surfboards, surfboat, surfboats, wolfberries, wolfberry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f" | |
+1 letter: fib, fob, fub. | |
+2 letters: baff, barf, beef, biff, boff, buff, bumf, fibs, flab, flub, fobs, forb, fubs. | |
+3 letters: abaft, baffs, baffy, barfs, beefs, beefy, befit, befog, biffs, biffy, bifid, bluff, boffo, boffs, brief, buffi, buffo, buffs, buffy, bumfs, fable, fiber, fibre, flabs, flubs, flyby, forbs, forby, fubsy. | |
+4 letters: baffed, baffle, bagful, barfed, barfly, basify, beefed, befall, befell, befits, beflag, beflea, befogs, befool, before, befoul, befret, begulf, behalf, behoof, belfry, belief, bereft, biface, biffed, biffin, biflex, bifold, biform, bluffs, boffed, boffin, boffos, botfly, bouffe, bowfin, boxful, briefs, buffed, buffer, buffet, buffos, confab, fabled, fabler, fables, fabric, feeble, feebly, ferbam, fibbed, fibber, fibers, fibres, fibril, fibrin, fibula, fimble, flabby, flambe, flyboy, flybys, fobbed, fogbow, foible, forbad, forbid, forbye, foreby, fubbed, fumble, prefab, rebuff, ruboff, sobful, subfix, tubful, webfed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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