Belau

Definition: Belau

Belau

Noun

1. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.

Synonyms: Belau

Synonyms: Palau (n), Palau Islands (n), Pelew (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Belau

Non-English Usage: "Belau" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Indonesian (flitcker, glitter).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Palau	Political parties: Palau Nationalist Party, Ta Belau Party. (references)
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"Belau" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Belau" is used about 15 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)	80%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	20%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Belau": Guam-belau.
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.

Language		Translations for "Belau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Indonesian		berbelaubelauan (lihat: belau), belau-belauan (lihat: belau). (various references)

Pig Latin		elaubay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Belau": belaud, belauded, belauding, belauds. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-u"
	-1 letter: able, bale, beau, blae, blue, lube.
	-2 letters: alb, ale, bal, bel, eau, lab, lea, leu.
	-3 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-u"
	+1 letter: bauble, belaud, beluga, bubale, bullae, nebula, suable, unable, usable.
	+2 letters: abluent, abluted, abubble, albumen, audible, baleful, ballute, baneful, barbule, bascule, baubles, baulked, belauds, belugas, bluecap, bluejay, bubales, bulkage, bullace, bullate, buyable, curable, dupable, durable, equable, equably, fibulae, mutable, nebulae, nebular, nebulas, puberal, rubella, rubeola, rulable, sublate, subsale, tableau, tunable, useable, useably.
	+3 letters: abluents, absolute, abusable, albumens, albumose, ambulate, amusable, arbuscle, arguable, audibles, baculine, ballutes, baluster, barbules, barleduc, bascules, baulkier, belabour, belauded, bisexual, blameful, blueball, bluecaps, bluecoat, bluehead, bluejack, bluejays, bluesman, brucella, bubaline, buddleia, buffable, bulkages, bulkhead, bullaces, bullhead, burnable, butylate, causable, chasuble, clubable, culpable, curbable, cuttable, durables, dutiable, educable, flambeau, furlable, guidable, gullable, gustable, huggable, hummable, huntable, issuable, jubilate, kabeljou, labellum, laboured, labourer, laudable, lobulate, mealybug, outblaze, outbleat, outfable, pourable, prunable, pubertal, quotable, reburial, rebuttal, reusable, rubellas, rubeolar, rubeolas, ruinable, rustable, sabulose, slugabed, squabble, sublated, sublates, sublease, subpanel, subsales, subscale, subulate, suitable, summable, surfable, tableaus, tableaux, tableful, tabulate, tubbable, tubulate, tuneable, tuneably, turnable, umbellar, umbrella, unblamed, undoable, unstable, unusable, unviable, urbanely, valuable.
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