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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Above-board In a straightforward manner. Conjurers place their hands under the table when they are preparing their tricks, but above when they show them. "Let all be above-board" means "let there be no under -hand work, but let us see everything." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "ABOVE-BOARD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| "ABOVE-BOARD" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "ABOVE-BOARD" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ABOVE-BOARD": above-board-well. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ABOVE-BOARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | eerlik (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | sincer (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ærlig (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eerzaam (deserving, honest, upright, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sincera (sincere), malkaŝa, honesta (honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sannur (sincere, true), reinmeintur (sincere), hjartaligur (cardiac, cordial, hearty, sincere, warm), heilhugaður (sincere), heiðurligur (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rehellinen (forthright, honest, sincere, square, straight, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sincère, honnête (aboveboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | earlik (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufrichtig (bluff, candid, earnest, earnestly, faithfully, Frank, frankly, genuine, genuinely, honest, honestly, ingenuous, ingenuously, open, sincere, sincerely, straightforward, truly, unaffected, undesigning, unfeigned), anständig (becoming, comely, decent, decently, decorous, decorously, fairly, handsome, handsomely, honest, modest, modestly, perennially, proper, reputable, respectable, self-respecting, sizable, sizeable, sporting, sportingly, square, upright), rechtschaffen (honest, righteous, righteously, uncorrupted, upright, uprightly, upstanding), honett (honest, upright), ehrlich (aboveboard, candid, candidly, downright, fairly, faithfully, frankly, honest, honestly, really, sincere, squarely, straightforward, transparent, truly, upright), bieder (faithful, honest, loyal, respectable, unadventurous, unadventurously, upright, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | becsületes (above board, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, honest, respectable, sound, straight, straightforward, true, trustful, trustworthy, trusty, upright, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | heiðarlegur (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sincero (candid, heartfelt, honest, ingenuous, plain, sincere, true, truthful, unaffected, undesigning), onesto (aboveboard, decent, fair, frank, honest, just, moral, right, Square, straightforward, upright, upstanding, virtuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | jujur (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | ærlig (candid, frankly, honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | honesto (honest, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | above-boarday uczciwy (honest, upright), szczery (sincere). (various references) franco (bluff, candid, clear, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, forthright, franc, frank, freehearted, guileless, honest, ingenuous, large-hearted, non-partisan, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, plump, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal), s claras (over-the-counter). (various references) честно (above board, aboveboard, fairly, honestly, in good faith, on the level, Square, uprightly). (various references) sincero (aboveboard, candid, foursquare, genuine, hearty, honest, open-hearted, sincere, true-hearted, unaffected, unfeigned, upright, warm, wholehearted, whole-souled). (various references) redlig (honest, upright), ärlig (aboveboard, fair, fair dealing, guileless, honest, plain, sincere, straight, upright). (various references) açik (absence, bright, clear, clearly, deficiency, deficit, distinct, free, lack, light, obvious, of course, open, plain, serene, shortage, shortcoming, sincere, unbiased, unchecked, untroubled, vacant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aboveboard. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-o-o-r-v" | |
-3 letters: bravado, bravoed. | |
-4 letters: aboard, abrade, abroad, adverb, barbed, boobed, braved, dabber, dobber, overdo, roadeo, robbed. | |
-5 letters: abode, above, adobe, adobo, adore, ardeb, baaed, baboo, barbe, barde, bared, beard, bevor, board, booed, bored, brava, brave, bravo, bread, broad, brood, debar, dobra, dobro, drave, drove, oared, orbed, oread, raved, robed, rodeo, roved. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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