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Definition: Melba |
MelbaNoun1. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: MelbaSynonyms: Dame Nellie Melba (n), Helen Porter Mitchell (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Melba, Idaho."
Crosswords: Melba |
| English words defined with "Melba": Dame Nellie Melba ♦ Melba toast ♦ peach melba. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Melba, why do you do that? (The Cincinnati Kid; writing credit: Richard Jessup; Ring Lardner Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show (1972) Melba (1953) | |
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| "Melba" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Melba" is used about 17 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) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Melba" 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 |
| Melba | First name Female | 27,000 | 493 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Melba, ID (city, FIPS 51850) |
Expressions using "Melba": Cypselus melba ♦ Dame Nellie Melba ♦ melba toast ♦ peach melba. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
melba | 66 | melba beals | 5 |
melba moore | 51 | melba liston | 3 |
melba toast | 26 | melba pattillo | 3 |
peach melba | 23 | china melba | 3 |
melba ruffo | 10 | melba peche | 3 |
melba high school | 10 | dessert french melba | 2 |
melba montgomery | 9 | kuna melba news | 2 |
melba ogle | 8 | melba sauce | 2 |
nellie melba | 7 | lean melba moore | 2 |
melba id | 7 | lyrics melba moore | 2 |
dame melba nellie | 7 | melba ware | 2 |
melba peach recipe | 6 | beals melba patillo | 2 |
melba idaho | 5 | duncan melba | 2 |
melba pattillo beals | 5 | melba recipe toast | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Melba"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | melba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | melba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Melban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | melba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dünner toast (melba toast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κομπόστα (compote, stewed fruit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | melba fagylalt (peach melba). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | melba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elbamay melba. (various references) dvopek (biscuit, melba toast, zwieback). (various references) melba. (various references) melba. (various references) peksimet (hard biscuit, hard tack, melba toast, rusk, ship biscuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Melba": camelback, camelbacks. (additional references) | |
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"Melba" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elab, elba, embla, Emla, lemba, Malaba, Malbak, Malbou, Malby, Malja, Malva, Mbela, meba, mebe, Medbh, Meelbeg, Meilhac, Mekbib, mela, Melab, Melao, Melga, Melgar, melibur, melna, melraw, Melsa, melta, melva, Melzack, Melzak, memb, memba, Merbau, mesba, miba, Milab, Milbah, Millbay, mlb, mlea, Mnemba, Molza, mulga, Muslab, nlba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amble, blame. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-m" | |
-1 letter: able, alme, bale, balm, beam, bema, blae, blam, lamb, lame, mabe, male, meal. | |
-2 letters: alb, ale, bal, bam, bel, elm, lab, lam, lea, mae, mel. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, al, am, ba, be, el, em, la, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-m" | |
+1 letter: ambled, ambler, ambles, becalm, bedlam, beldam, blamed, blamer, blames, embalm, flambe, gamble, lambed, lamber, lambie, marble, ramble, wamble. | |
+2 letters: albumen, alembic, amblers, amiable, balmier, beamily, becalms, bedlamp, bedlams, beldame, beldams, bellman, bimetal, blamers, bramble, cembali, cembalo, clamber, embalms, emblaze, flambee, flambes, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, imblaze, lambent, lambers, lambert, lambier, lambies, limbate, makable, marbled, marbler, marbles, minable, mixable, movable, mutable, namable, rambled, rambler, rambles, shamble, tamable, timbale, wambled, wambles. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6C 62 61 |
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