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Definition: Bedcover |
BedcoverNoun1. Decorative cover for a bed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedcover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: BedcoverSynonyms: bed cover (n), bed covering (n), bedspread (n), counterpane (n), spread (n). (additional references) |
| "Bedcover" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Bedcover" is used about 27 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) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bedcover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | přehoz přes postel (bedspread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | bettdecke (bed blanket, bedspread, blanket, coverlet), überdecke (bedspread, counterpane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | copriletto (bedspread, counterpane, coverlet, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | brat lhiabbagh (coverlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edcoverbay colcha (bedspread, blanket, quilt, stitching). (various references) покривало (carpet, cerement, coverlet, coverlid, overlay, veil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedcover": bedcovering, bedcoverings, bedcovers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: covered, overbed. | |
-2 letters: corvee, overed, recode. | |
-3 letters: bevor, bored, brede, breed, breve, ceder, cered, coder, cored, coved, cover, credo, creed, decor, drove, erode, orbed, rebec, robed, roved. | |
-4 letters: beer, bode, bore, bred, bree, cede, cere, cero, code, coed, cord, core, cove, deco, deer, dere, doer, dore, dove, dree, ever, over, rede, redo, reed, robe, rode, rove, veer, verb. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, bod, bro, cee, cob, cod, cor, deb, dee, dev, doc, doe, dor, ere, eve, obe, ode, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, red, ree, rev, rob, roc, rod, roe, vee, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: bedcovers. | |
+3 letters: bedcovering. | |
+4 letters: bedcoverings, discoverable, overbalanced, overbleached. | |
+5 letters: overabundance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 63 6F 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. -.-. --- ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d c o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0064 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671706981887184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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