Bedspread

Definition: Bedspread

Bedspread

Noun

1. Decorative cover for a bed.

Date "bedspread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Synonyms: Bedspread

Synonyms: bed cover (n), bed covering (n), bedcover (n), counterpane (n), spread (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Bedspread

English words defined with "bedspread": coverlet, crochet ♦ quilted bedspread ♦ throw. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Come over here and feel my velour bedspread. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)
Movie/TV Titles	The Bedspread (1969)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Classic Crocheted Bedspread Designs (reference) Popcorn Crochet Bedspread Designs (reference) The Bedspread (reference) The Interior Designer's Drapery, Bedspread, and Canopy Sketchfile (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Bedspread" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "Bedspread" is used about 54 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)	98.15%	53	46,657
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	54	N/A

Expression using "bedspread": quilted bedspread. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "bedspread"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bedsprei (counterpane, coverlet). (various references)

Albanian		mbulesë krevati (blanket, coverlet, coverlid), kuvertë (blanket, board, counterpane, deck, spread). (various references)

Arabic		‏غطاء السرير (coverlet, spread). (various references)

Bulgarian		постилка (underlay), покривка за легло (counterpane, quilt, sheet-sham). (various references)

Chamorro		hafyen katre. (various references)

Chinese		床罩. (various references)

Czech		pokrývka na postel, přehoz přes postel (bedcover). (various references)

Danish		sengetaeppe (bed blanket, blanket). (various references)

Dutch		bedsprei, beddesprei (counterpane, coverlet), sprei (counterpane, coverlet). (various references)

Esperanto		lita superkovrilo (counterpane, coverlet). (various references)

Farsi		چادرشب رختخواب , روپوش تختخواب (Counterpane, Coverlet). (various references)

Finnish		vuodepeite (counterpane, quilt), sängynpeite (counterpane), päiväpeite (counterpane, coverlet). (various references)

French		couvre-lit (bed-cover). (various references)

German		Bettdeck, bettüberwurf (counterpane), tagesdecke, überdecke (bedcover, counterpane). (various references)

Greek		κάλυμμα κρεβατιού (counterpane). (various references)

Hebrew		כסוי מט�" (coverlet). (various references)

Hungarian		ágytakaró (counterpane, coverlet, duvet, overlay, quilt). (various references)

Indonesian		seperai (bedclothes, sheet). (various references)

Italian		copriletto (bedcover, counterpane, coverlet, spread). (various references)

Manx		curleid lhiabbagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		edspreadbay

Portuguese		manta (Atlantic manta, batt, batting, blanket, hat-form, mattress, web), colcha (coverlet, quilt), coberta (blanket, cap, clothing, counterpane, covering, coverlid, deck, haphazard, shroud, slip), acolchoado (comforter, cotton pad, cotton wadding, cotton wool ball, cushioning, padding, pledget of wadding, plug of wadding, quilt, quilted, upholsterer). (various references)

Romanian		cuverturã de pat (spread). (various references)

Romany		shiltès. (various references)

Russian		постельное покрывало (bed-spread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prekrivač (blanket, counterpane, cover). (various references)

Spanish		colcha de cama (counterpane, coverlet), colcha (bedcover, blanket, quilt, stitching). (various references)

Swedish		sängöverkast (counterpane, coverlet). (various references)

Turkish		yatak örtüsü (counterpane, coverlet, coverlid). (various references)

Ukranian		легке покривало для ліжка. (various references)

Vietnamese		khăn trải giường. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bedspread": bedspreads. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bedspread" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bespread. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bedspread" (pronounced be"dspre'd)
3	-r e' d	cornbread, gingerbread, inbred.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: bedraped, bedrapes, bespread, respaded.
	-2 letters: bearded, bedders, bedrape, breaded, debased, debaser, padders, respade, sabered, speared.
	-3 letters: adders, ardebs, badder, barded, bardes, beaded, beards, bedder, breads, bredes, breeds, deader, debars, debase, draped, drapes, dreads, erased, padder, padres, pardee, parsed, pesade, rasped, readds, reaped, reseda, sabred, sadder, seabed, seared, serape, serdab, spaded, spader, spared, spread.
	-4 letters: adder, aedes, apers, apres, ardeb, asper, barde, bards, bared, bares, based, baser, beads, beard, bears, beeps, beers, brads, braes, bread, brede, breed, brees, darbs, dared, dares, deads, dears, debar, deeds, deeps, deers, drabs, drape, dread, dreed, drees, eared, eased, erase, padre, pards, pared, pares, parse, pears, pease, pedes, peers, perea, perse, prase, preed, prees, presa, prese, raped, rapes, rased, readd, reads, reaps, redds, reded, redes, reeds, sabed, saber, sabre, saree, seder, sered, spade, spaed, spare, spear, speed, speer, spree.
	-5 letters: abed, adds, aped, aper, apes, apse, arbs, ares, arse, bade, bads, baps, bard, bare, bars, base, bead, bear, beds, beep, beer, bees, brad, brae, bras, bred, bree, dabs, dads, daps, darb, dare, dead, dear, debs, deed, deep, deer, dees, dere, drab, dree, ears, ease, eras, pads, pard, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peds, peed, peer, pees, pree, rads, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, rebs, redd, rede, reds, reed, rees, reps, sabe, sade, sard, sear, seed, seep, seer, sera, sere, spae, spar, sped.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: bedspreads.
	+4 letters: superabounded.
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