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BIRCHED

Definition: BIRCHED

BIRCHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Birch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Usage Frequency: BIRCHED

"BIRCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIRCHED" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIRCHED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  birched

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: BIRCHED

Misspellings

"BIRCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berche, Berchem, Bershad, Bichat, biche, birche, Birchley, Birket. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BIRCHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-h-i-r"

-1 letter: chider, dreich, herdic.

-2 letters: bider, birch, bride, cebid, chide, cider, cried, dicer, hider, hired, rebid, riced.

-3 letters: bice, bide, bier, bird, bred, brie, cedi, chid, cire, crib, dice, dire, drib, heir, herb, herd, hide, hied, hire, iced, ired, rice, rich, ride.

-4 letters: bed, bid, chi, deb, dib, die, edh, her, hic, hid, hie, ice.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-h-i-r"
 

+1 letter: bedchair.

 

+2 letters: bedchairs, herbicide.

 

+3 letters: besmirched, brachiated, herbicidal, herbicides.

 

+4 letters: bedrenching, bichromated, birdwatcher, chambermaid, charbroiled, chemisorbed, hornblendic.

 

+5 letters: birdwatchers, chambermaids, childbearing, debaucheries, decipherable, herbicidally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BIRCHED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 52 43 48 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    .-.    -.-.    ....    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01010010 01000011 01001000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0052 0043 0048 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36435237423938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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