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BLEA

Definition: BLEA

BLEA

Noun

1. The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Usage Frequency: BLEA

"BLEA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLEA" is used about 23 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
Noun (proper)100%2372,767

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BLEA

The following table summarizes the usage of "BLEA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BleaLast name1,00015,916
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations: BLEA

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLEA": bleach, bleachable, bleached, bleacher, bleacherite, bleacherites, bleachers, bleaches, bleaching, bleak, bleaker, bleakest, bleakish, bleakly, bleakness, bleaknesses, bleaks, blear, bleared, blearier, bleariest, blearily, bleariness, blearinesses, blearing, blears, bleary, bleat, bleated, bleater, bleaters, bleating, bleats. (additional references)

Words containing "BLEA": outbleat, outbleated, outbleating, outbleats, overbleach, overbleached, overbleaches, overbleaching, sublease, subleased, subleases, subleasing, tableau, tableaus, tableaux, unbleached. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "BLEA"

Words ending with "ea": A-sea, Plea. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BLEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: able, bale, blae.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l"

-1 letter: alb, ale, bal, bel, lab, lea.

-2 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l"
 

+1 letter: abele, abler, ables, amble, babel, bagel, baled, baler, bales, belay, belga, blade, blame, blare, blase, blate, blaze, bleak, blear, bleat, cable, fable, gable, gleba, label, sable, table.

 

+2 letters: abeles, abelia, ablate, ablaze, ablest, abseil, albedo, albeit, albite, alible, ambled, ambler, ambles, arable, babble, babels, baffle, bagels, bailed, bailee, bailer, bailey, bailie, balded, balder, baleen, balers, balked, balker, balled, baller, ballet, bangle, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, basely, battle, bauble, bawled, bawler, beadle, beagle, becalm, bedlam, befall, beflag, beflea, begall, beglad, behalf, belady, belaud, belays, beldam, beleap, belgas, beluga, benzal, bewail, bladed, blades, blamed, blamer, blames, blared, blares, blawed, blazed, blazer, blazes, bleach, bleaks, blears, bleary, bleats, boatel, boreal, bubale, bullae, byelaw, cabled, cables, cablet, dabble, doable, dyable, embalm, enable, fabled, fabler, fables, flambe, gabble, gabled, gables, gamble, garble, glebae, habile, herbal, keblah, labels, labile, labret, lambed, lamber, lambie, liable, librae, lobate, marble, nebula, obelia, oblate, rabble, ramble, sables, stable, suable, tabled, tables, tablet, unable, usable, verbal, viable, wabble, wamble, warble.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLEA


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

42 4C 45 41

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 01001100 01000101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#69 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0045 0041

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

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

36463935

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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