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Definition: BAILIE |
BAILIENoun1. An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman. |
Date "BAILIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Note: Bailie \Bail"ie\, noun. [See Bailiff.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: BAILIE |
| English words defined with "BAILIE": Baillie. (references) |
| "BAILIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "BAILIE" 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 (proper) | 61.11% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.89% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BAILIE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bailie | Last name | 300 | 26,846 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BAILIE": bailie-depute, bailie-substitute. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bailie mulholland | 5 |
bailie grip | 4 |
bailie martin | 2 |
bailie james m | 2 |
william bailie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BAILIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Korean | 시의회 의원 (Alderman, Aldermen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailiebay.(various references) | |
Romanian | Consilier Municipal (alderman). (various references) | |
Spanish | Magistrado Municipal Escocés. (various references) | |
Swedish | Ålderman. (various references) | |
Ukranian | Міський Суддя. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BAILIE": bailies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BAILIE" (pronounced bā"lē) |
| 4 | b ā" l ē | Bailey. |
| 3 | -ā" l ē | daily, gaily, ukulele. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l" | |
-1 letter: alibi, biali. | |
-2 letters: able, bail, bale, bile, blae, ilea, ilia. | |
-3 letters: ail, alb, ale, bal, bel, lab, lea, lei, lib, lie. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ai, al, ba, be, bi, el, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l" | |
+1 letter: alibied, alibies, bailies, bialies. | |
+2 letters: biennial, bilinear, imitable, inviable, kielbasi, pitiable, sibilate, vitiable. | |
+3 letters: abilities, abseiling, airmobile, bairnlier, basilicae, bewailing, biennials, bigeminal, bilabiate, diablerie, diabolize, dividable, fibrillae, ignitable, illiberal, inaudible, ionizable, irascible, irritable, labialize, libraries, limitable, litigable, sibilance, sibilated, sibilates, stabilize, unifiable, vibratile, visitable. | |
+4 letters: admissible, bairnliest, banalities, beneficial, bestiality, bestialize, biennially, bimetallic, bioethical, biomedical, bipedalism, bipedality, bipolarize, brilliance, celibacies, debilitate, diableries, diabolized, diabolizes, dishabille, dislikable, dyeability, epiblastic, equability, equilibria, fibrillate, habiliment, habilitate, herbicidal, imaginable, impartible, impassible, inclinable, indictable, inevitable, inevitably, inexpiable, inexpiably, infallible, infeasible, infibulate, inimitable, insatiable, insociable, intangible, intuitable, invariable, inviolable, labialized, labializes, labilities, lesbianism, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, liberality, liberalize, liberating, liberation, modifiable, notifiable, oxidizable, pacifiable, ribaldries, sensibilia, sewability, sibilances, stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizes, tenability, umbilicate, utilizable, verifiable, vindicable. | |
+5 letters: amenability, amphibolies, amphibolite, antiliberal, arabilities, assimilable, bearability, bestialized, bestializes, bibliolater, bibliotheca, bidialectal, billionaire, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, bimillenary, biochemical, biomaterial, biometrical, bioregional, bipartitely, bipedalisms, bipinnately, bipolarized, bipolarizes, bisectional, bisexuality, brilliances, bristletail, brutalities, cannibalise, cannibalize, certifiable, certifiably, debilitated, debilitates, deniability, destabilize, detribalize, dishabilles, dislikeable, dissociable, educability, equilibrant, equilibrate, erasability, falsifiable, feasibility, fibrillated, fibrillates, fireballing, fissionable, habiliments, habilitated, habilitates, illiberally, illimitable, illuminable, immedicable, immedicably, immitigable, implausible, inabilities, inadvisable, inalienable, inalienably, indefinable, indefinably, indomitable, indubitable, inequitable, inequitably, inestimable, inestimably, infibulated, infibulates, infrangible, inhabitable, inheritable, intangibles, intertribal, invariables, irradicable, justiciable, justifiable, langbeinite, lesbianisms, liabilities, liberalised, liberalises, liberalisms, liberalists, liberalized, liberalizer, liberalizes, liberations, libertarian, libertinage, linebacking, liveability, lubricative, marbleising, marbleizing, medicinable, meltability, memorabilia, mislabeling, openability, operability, plebeianism, prebiblical, prelibation, qualifiable, rainbowlike, readability, rectifiable, reliability, rentability, restabilize, reusability, salubrities, satirizable, satisfiable, specifiable, stabilities, stabilizers, suabilities, subfamilies, syllabified, syllabifies, testability, umbilicated, usabilities, verbalistic, verbalizing, viabilities, vinblastine, vitrifiable, wearability, wettability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 49 4C 49 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .. .-.. .. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A I L I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0049 004C 0049 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363543464339 |
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