CORBIES

Definition: CORBIES

CORBIES

Plural

1. Of Corby

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

"CORBIES" is a common misspelling or typo for: carbides, cowries, cronies.

Domain	Usage
Song Titles	Twa Corbies (performing artist: Steeleye Span)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"CORBIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CORBIES" 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
Noun (plural)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: corbie, cosier, ribose, scribe, sorbic.
	-2 letters: bices, biers, birse, bores, boric, bries, brios, brose, ceros, cires, coirs, cores, corse, cosie, cribs, cries, osier, ribes, rices, robes, score, sober.
	-3 letters: bice, bier, bios, bise, bore, brie, brio, bris, bros, cero, cire, cobs, coir, core, cors, crib, cris, eros, ices, ires, obes, obis, orbs, orcs.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: aerobics, bicornes, bisector, bricoles, brioches, corbeils, microbes.
	+2 letters: albicores, bisectors, boracites, bracioles, cabrioles, chemisorb, combiners, conscribe, obstetric, proscribe, rockabies.
	+3 letters: aerobatics, bacteroids, bescouring, biometrics, biospheric, botcheries, bricolages, cabriolets, carbonizes, chemisorbs, conscribed, conscribes, corbeilles, corbelings, cowberries, fiberscope, iceboaters, kickboxers, microbeams, microbrews, microbuses, obduracies, obstetrics, presbyopic, proscribed, proscriber, proscribes, recombines, seborrheic.
	+4 letters: abreactions, aerobicizes, baronetcies, barricadoes, bescorching, bichromates, bioreactors, bootlickers, bronchioles, brucellosis, carabineros, cerebroside, chemisorbed, chifforobes, clofibrates, contributes, copublisher, counterbids, coxcombries, crowberries, fiberoptics, fiberscopes, meroblastic, microbusses, microprobes, mobocracies, obscurities, obstetrical, obstructive, presbyopics, probenecids, proboscides, proboscises, processible, proscribers, subdirector.
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