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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DOB | Danish | Dimethoxybromamfetamin | N/A |
DOB | English | Golden eagle | N/A |
DOB | German | Dimethoxybromamphetamin | N/A |
DOB | Greek | 2)4-βρωμο-2,5-διμεθοξυαμφεταμίνη | N/A |
DOB | Italian | 2,5-Dimetossi-4-Bromo-Amfetamina | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DOB |
| Non-English Usage: "DOB" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (barrel, cast, drum, fling, jilt, launch, sling, throw, to bung, to cast, cast, to fling, flung, to ground, to heave, to heave, hove, to jilt, to launch, to let fly, to pitch, to put, put, to shoot, shot, to shy, to sling, slung, to throw, threw, thrown). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dob der Stallhase (1945) | |
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| "DOB" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DOB" is used about 6 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) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DOB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Rohdiamant (rough diamond). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | obday дата рождения. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DOB": dobber, dobbers, dobbies, dobbin, dobbins, dobby, dobie, dobies, dobla, doblas, doblon, doblones, doblons, dobra, dobras, dobro, dobros, dobson, dobsonflies, dobsonfly, dobsons, doby. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DOB": adobe, adobelike, adobes, adobo, adobos, cordoba, cordobas, endobiotic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bod. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-o" | |
-1 letter: bo, do, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-o" | |
+1 letter: bode, bods, body, bold, bond, doby. | |
+2 letters: abode, adobe, adobo, bipod, blond, blood, board, boded, bodes, bolds, bonds, boned, booed, bored, bound, bovid, bowed, boxed, broad, brood, demob, dhobi, dobby, dobie, dobla, dobra, dobro, doubt, lobed, orbed, robed. | |
+3 letters: aboard, aboded, abodes, abound, abroad, adobes, adobos, adsorb, albedo, bandog, behold, beyond, bifold, bipods, blonde, blonds, bloods, bloody, blowed, boards, boated, bobbed, bodega, bodice, bodied, bodies, bodily, boding, bodkin, boffed, bogged, boiled, bolder, boldly, bolide, bolled, bolted, bombed, bonded, bonder, bonduc, bonged, bonked, boobed, boodle, booked, boomed, booted, boozed, bopped, bordel, border, boride, bossed, bounds, boused, bovids, bowled, bowsed, boyard, broads, bromid, broods, broody, browed, buboed, buoyed, byroad, byword, ceboid, combed, cuboid, dagoba, debone, debtor, demobs, desorb, dhobis, diobol, doable, dobber, dobbin, dobies, doblas, doblon, dobras, dobros, dobson, dorbug, double, doubly, doubts, embody, fobbed, forbad, forbid, globed, gobbed, goodby, hobbed, hoboed, hotbed, imbody, jobbed, kobold, libido, lobbed, mobbed, mobled, morbid, nobody, obeyed, obtund, outbid, probed, rebody, roband, robbed, sobbed, sorbed, tombed, wombed. | |
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