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Bacca

Definition: Bacca

Bacca

Noun

1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bacca" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonym: Bacca

Synonym: simple fruit (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bacca

Etymologies containing "bacca": AsarabaccaBaccate, Baccivorous, BASIN. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bacca" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (berry), Latin (basin, berry, pearl, water vessel).

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Commercial Usage: Bacca

DomainTitle

Books

  • Filosofía en música y filosofía de la música de Juan David García Bacca (reference)

  • García Bacca : la audacia de un pensar (reference)

  • Jarsi garura ulto bacca (reference)

  • Juan D. García Bacca : exposición bibliográfica, hemerográfica, sonora, fotográfica y de manuscritos : febrero/marzo, 1988 (reference)

  • Kitaba Aura Bacca (Samskarana) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Bacca

"Bacca" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bacca" is used about 4 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 (singular)100%4175,879

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Bacca

The following table summarizes the usage of "bacca" 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
BaccaLast name20034,298
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bacca

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

bacca

6

bacca bucci

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

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Modern Translations: Bacca

Language Translations for "bacca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

accabay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bacca

Derivations

Words beginning with "bacca": baccae, baccalaureate, baccalaureates, baccara, baccaras, baccarat, baccarats, baccate, baccated. (additional references)

Words containing "bacca": postbaccalaureate. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Bacca

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c"

-1 letter: caca.

-2 letters: aba, baa, cab.

-3 letters: aa, ab, ba.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c"
 

+1 letter: baccae.

 

+2 letters: baccara, baccate.

 

+3 letters: baccaras, baccarat, baccated, bacchant, backache, backcast, backchat, backpack, blackcap, callback, cannabic, carbamic, cascabel, cascable, catacomb, maccabaw, maccaboy, scatback.

 

+4 letters: accruable, acrobatic, baccarats, bacchanal, bacchante, bacchants, backaches, backcasts, backchats, backpacks, backspace, backtrack, blackcaps, blackface, blackjack, callbacks, camelback, carbachol, carryback, cascabels, cascables, catabolic, catacombs, catchable, charabanc, chawbacon, coachable, crackback, hatchback, huckaback, maccabaws, maccaboys, pickaback, scatbacks.

 

+5 letters: acceptable, acceptably, acrobatics, bacchanals, bacchantes, bacitracin, backpacked, backpacker, backspaced, backspaces, backtracks, blackfaces, blackjacks, cabalistic, calculable, camelbacks, cancelable, canvasback, carbachols, carrybacks, charabancs, chawbacons, crackbacks, crackbrain, hatchbacks, huckabacks, pickabacks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bacca


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

42 61 63 63 61

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 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#99 &#99 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0063 0063 0061

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

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

3667696967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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