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Definition: BAYOUS |
BAYOUSPlural1. Of Bayou |
Date "BAYOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
Crosswords: BAYOUS |
| Etymologies containing "BAYOUS": Bayou. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Level party crossing bayous near Dugdemona River Level party of R. C. Darling.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Not the best bridge, but it will work Level party crossing bayous near Dugdemona River Level party of R. C. Darling.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Eroding marsh peninsula between Bayous Perot and Rigolettes.Credit: America's Coastlines. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "BAYOUS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BAYOUS" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BAYOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | sumpfige Flussarme. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ayousbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"BAYOUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abyis, ayou, Ayoub, Babyrousa, Bacou, Bagoas, bagou, Balou, balyou, bavou, Bayisa, Baykonur, baylou, bayo, bayouc, bayu, Bedous, Beeious, belous, bious, bisous, biyou, Blayais, boyou, byou, wayuu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-o-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: bayou, bousy, buoys. | |
-2 letters: abos, abys, bays, boas, boys, buoy, busy, buys, soya, suba, sybo, yobs. | |
-3 letters: abo, abs, aby, ays, bas, bay, boa, bos, boy, bus, buy, bys, sab, sau, say, sob, sou, soy, sub, yob, you. | |
-4 letters: ab, as, ay, ba, bo, by, os, oy, so, us, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-o-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: buoyages, hautboys. | |
+3 letters: buckayros, buoyances, layabouts. | |
+4 letters: absolutely, bawdyhouse, bigamously, boastfully, bodyguards, buoyancies, fabulously, scabrously, subtotally, subvocally, supposably, unsociably. | |
+5 letters: ambiguously, ambitiously, barbarously, bawdyhouses, beauteously, bodaciously, butylations, laboriously, obfuscatory, rubythroats, subcategory, subcontrary, subnormally, unstoppably, yarboroughs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 59 4F 55 53 |
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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 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A Y O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0059 004F 0055 0053 |
| 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)363559495553 |
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