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Definitions: BIRK |
BIRKNoun1. A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus). 2. A birch tree. |
Date "BIRK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: BIRK |
| Non-English Usage: "BIRK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (birch), Manx (grains of corn). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Lieutenant Commander Stacy Birk on bridge watch on the NOAA Ship McARTHUR.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "BIRK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.40% of the time. "BIRK" is used about 125 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) | 98.4% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BIRK" 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 |
| Birk | Last name | 1,000 | 11,408 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BIRK": Bowman-Birk. | |
| 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 |
birk | 12 |
raye birk | 5 |
birk matt | 3 |
sandow birk | 2 |
birk møbler | 2 |
birk nathan t | 2 |
birk dr ohad | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BIRK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | berk (birch). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irkbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BIRK": birkie, birkies, birks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BIRK" (pronounced ber"k) |
| 3 | b er" k | Burke. |
| 2 | -er" k | berserk, cirque, clerk, Dirk, irk, jerk, Kirk, lurk, Merk, murk, overwork, perk, quirk, rework, shirk, smirk, turk, work. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: irk, kir, rib. | |
-2 letters: bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: biker, birks, brick, brink, brisk, krubi. | |
+2 letters: bicker, bikers, bilker, birkie, bricks, bricky, brinks, brisks, imbark, krubis. | |
+3 letters: balkier, barkier, barking, beakier, bickers, bidarka, bilkers, birkies, blinker, boskier, brakier, braking, bricked, brickle, brisked, brisker, brisket, briskly, britska, britzka, broking, brookie, bulkier, burking, burkite, imbarks, kerbing, kilobar, reitbok, riblike. | |
+4 letters: backfire, baidarka, bakeries, baldrick, barkiest, barnlike, baulkier, bearlike, bearskin, beraking, bickered, bickerer, bidarkas, bidarkee, biforked, birdlike, blinkard, blinkers, blockier, brackish, brakiest, breaking, brickbat, brickier, bricking, brickles, briskest, briskets, brisking, britskas, britzkas, britzska, brokings, brookies, brooking, brookite, burkites, cribwork, fireback, herblike, imbarked, inkberry, ironbark, kibitzer, kilobars, kingbird, knobbier, knubbier, kohlrabi, ninebark, rebuking, redbrick, reitboks, ringbark, rubylike. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 52 4B |
| 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 01001001 01010010 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I R K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0052 004B |
| 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)36435245 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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