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BLA

"BLA" is a common misspelling or typo for: bal, bald, bale, balk, ball, balm, blab, blat, boa, bola.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: BLA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BLA

EnglishBiologics License ApplicationMedicine

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

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Modern Usage: BLA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Roi du bla bla bla (1951)

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

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Commercial Usage: BLA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Zhai tangy : khaparla bla nazmula (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: BLA

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The blue crocodile = Den bla krokodille. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: BLA

"BLA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 41.38% of the time. "BLA" is used about 29 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
Noun (singular)41.38%12101,599
Noun (proper)34.48%10111,207
Unclassified Items24.14%7133,076
                    Total100.00%29N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLA

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bla

353

agostino bla d gigi

6

bla bla priceless

82

bla bla bla chocolate

4

bla bla bla

64

bla blazo

4

bla bla

42

auto bla

3

bla priceless.bla

37

avis bla den

3

aeiou bla

21

bla bla pic priceless

3

bla priceless

18

bla bla salas

3

bla bla.com priceless

17

bla blazo super

3

bla bla funny

12

bla digital

3

bla trojan

10

bla funny.bla

3

aeiou.pt bla

9

aeiou bla bla

2

bla bla.com

9

aeiou.pt bla bla

2

bla bla.com funny

8

bla horse trojan

2

bla bla.pt

7

agostino bla bla bla d gigi video

2

bla bla com priceless

6

bla borsen

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BLA

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLA": blab, blabbed, blabber, blabbered, blabbering, blabbermouth, blabbermouths, blabbers, blabbing, blabby, blabs, black, blackamoor, blackamoors, blackball, blackballed, blackballing, blackballs, blackberries, blackberry, blackbird, blackbirded, blackbirder, blackbirders, blackbirding, blackbirds, blackboard, blackboards, blackbodies, blackbody, blackboy, blackboys, blackcap, blackcaps, blackcock, blackcocks, blacked, blacken, blackened, blackener, blackeners, blackening, blackenings, blackens, blacker, blackest, blackface, blackfaces, blackfin, blackfins, blackfish. (additional references)

Words ending with "BLA": dobla, kibla, tabla. (additional references)

Words containing "BLA": ablate, ablated, ablates, ablating, ablation, ablations, ablative, ablatively, ablatives, ablaut, ablauts, ablaze, ameloblast, ameloblasts, antiblack, antiblackism, antiblackisms, assemblage, assemblages, assemblagist, assemblagists, bootblack, bootblacks, chilblain, chilblains, counterblast, counterblasts, diploblastic, doblas, emblaze, emblazed, emblazer, emblazers, emblazes, emblazing, emblazon, emblazoned, emblazoner, emblazoners, emblazoning, emblazonment, emblazonments, emblazonries, emblazonry, emblazons, entablature, entablatures, epiblast, epiblastic, epiblasts, erythroblast. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BLA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alb, bal, lab.

Words within the letters "a-b-l"

-1 letter: ab, al, ba, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-l"
 

+1 letter: able, ably, alba, albs, baal, bail, bald, bale, balk, ball, balm, bals, bawl, blab, blae, blah, blam, blat, blaw, bola, flab, labs, lamb, slab.

 

+2 letters: abele, abler, ables, aboil, albas, album, alibi, amble, baals, babel, babul, badly, bagel, bails, balas, balds, baldy, baled, baler, bales, balks, balky, balls, bally, balms, balmy, balsa, banal, basal, basil, baulk, bawls, belay, belga, biali, bialy, binal, blabs, black, blade, blahs, blain, blame, blams, bland, blank, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blawn, blaws, blaze, bleak, blear, bleat, bloat, bolar, bolas, boral, boyla, brail, brawl, bubal, bulla, bylaw, cabal, cable, dobla, fable, flabs, gable, gleba, kibla, label, labia, labor, labra, lambs, lamby, libra, limba, lobar, pibal, sable, slabs, tabla, table, tubal.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLA


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

42 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01001100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041

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

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

364635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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