Beetroot

Definitions: Beetroot

Beetroot

Noun

1. Beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption.

2. Round red root vegetable.

Date "beetroot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A beet, Beta vulgaris, with an edible spherical dark red root. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Beetroot

Synonym: beet (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Beetroot

English words defined with "beetroot": beet green. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He did! He did! He had a living beetroot smell! (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Beetroot [IMPORT] (reference) Colour Or Beetroot Ep (Limited Edition) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Beetroot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Beetroot" is used about 36 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)	83.33%	30	63,341
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.89%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

Expressions using "beetroot": beetroot soup ♦ beetroot sugar ♦ common beetroot ♦ salad of beetroot. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "beetroot": beetroot-red.
	Ending with "beetroot": raspberry-to-beetroot.
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.

Language		Translations for "beetroot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		beetsuiker (beet sugar, beetroot sugar). (various references)

Albanian		panxhar (beet). (various references)

Arabic		‏جذر الشمندر, ‏شمندر أحمر. (various references)

Bulgarian		чукундур, цвекло (beet). (various references)

Chinese		�"�菜� �. (various references)

Danish		bederoe, rødbede (red beet). (various references)

Dutch		biet (beet), rode biet (red beet), kroten (red beet), kroot (beet, red beet). (various references)

Esperanto		betsukero (beet sugar, beetroot sugar). (various references)

Finnish		punajuurikas (red beet). (various references)

French		betterave rouge (red beet), betterave potagère (red beet), betterave � salade (red beet), betterave (beet). (various references)

German		rote Rüben (red beet), rote bete, rote Beete (red beet), Rübe (beet, carrot, nob, noddle, pate, turnip). (various references)

Greek		παντζάρι (beet), εδώδιμα τεύτλα (red beet), τεύτλα για σαλάτα (red beet). (various references)

Hebrew		סלק א�"ום. (various references)

Hungarian		cékla (beet, red beet). (various references)

Italian		barbabietola rossa (red beet). (various references)

Manx		beetys (beet). (various references)

Pig Latin		eetrootbay

Portuguese		beterraba-vermelha (red beet), beterraba-de-salada (red beet), beterraba (beet, beets, red beet, sugar beet), terraba (red beet), raiz de beterraba, patarrábia (red beet). (various references)

Romanian		sfeclã (beet). (various references)

Russian		свекловица. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		salata od cvekle (salad of beetroot). (various references)

Spanish		remolacha (beet, red beet). (various references)

Swedish		rödbeta (common beetroot, red beet). (various references)

Turkish		pancar kökü (beet), pancar (beet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	beta vulgaris, Beta vulgaris var. conditiva, bete. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beetroot": beetroots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beetroot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bertholt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-o-o-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: better, bettor, bootee, reboot, tooter.
	-3 letters: beret, otter, robot, rotte, torot, torte, toter.
	-4 letters: beer, beet, boor, boot, bore, bort, bott, bree, broo, oboe, otto, rete, robe, root, rote, roto, toot, tore, toro, tort, tote, tree, tret, trot.
	-5 letters: bee, bet, boo, bot, bro, ere, obe, oot, orb, ore, ort, reb, ree, ret, rob.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-o-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: beetroots.
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