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Date "BY-ROAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | By-road (A). Not a main road; a local road. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BY-ROAD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BY-ROAD" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BY-ROAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | landevej (by-way, country road, rural road, subsidiary road), amtsvej (by-way, country road, prefectural road, provincial road, subsidiary road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | provinciale weg (by-way, country road, prefectural road, provincial road, subsidiary road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | route secondaire (bystreet, byway), route départementale (by-way), route cantonale (by-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nebenstraάe (by-way, subsidiary road), Gemeindeweg (by-way, municipal road, municipal street, parish road, rural road, subsidiary road, village road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δευτερεύων δρόμος (by-way, subsidiary road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strada secondaria (byroad, crossroad, side road), strada provinciale (by-way, country road, prefectural road, provincial road, subsidiary road), strada comunale (borough road, by-way, municipal road, municipal street, parish road, subsidiary road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | raad laue, raad er lheh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | y-roadbay estradas secundárias (by-way, subsidiary road). (various references) carretera comarcal (by-way, subsidiary road). (various references) biväg (by road, byroad). (various references) đường phụ (by-way, spur line, spur track), đường ít người qua lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boyard, byroad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: board, boyar, broad, dobra. | |
-2 letters: bard, boar, body, bora, brad, bray, darb, doby, dory, drab, dray, orad, orby, road, yard. | |
-3 letters: abo, aby, ado, arb, bad, bar, bay, boa, bod, boy, bra, bro, dab, day, dor, dry, oar, ora, orb, rad, ray, rob, rod, rya, yar, yob, yod. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ar, ay, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: boyards, broadly, byroads. | |
+2 letters: adorably, boatyard, boneyard, boundary, carboyed, keyboard, obduracy. | |
+3 letters: boatyards, bodyguard, boneyards, hybridoma, keyboards. | |
+4 letters: affordably, bardolatry, bodyguards, botryoidal, debonairly, deplorably, formidably, hybridomas, keyboarded, keyboarder, obdurately, pardonably, rekeyboard, storyboard. | |
+5 letters: adorability, embryonated, hydrocarbon, hydrophobia, keyboarders, keyboarding, keyboardist, redoubtably, rekeyboards, rhabdomancy, roadability, storyboards. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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