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Definition: Backchat |
BackchatNoun1. Light teasing repartee. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BackchatSynonyms: banter (n), give-and-take (n), raillery (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Backchat (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Backchat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "Backchat" is used about 19 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 (singular) | 57.89% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 26.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
backchat | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backchat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paturpësi (brass, cheek, effrontery, face, gall, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, indecency, insolence, lewdness, liberty, lubricity, sauce, shamelessness, wantonness), pafytyrësi (effrontery, impertinence, insolence, lip, sauce). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дързък отговор (retort, sass). (various references) | |
Chinese | 争辩. (various references) | |
Manx | ansooryn daaney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackchatbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resposta malcriada (back talk). (various references) | |
Russian | быстрый обмен репликами, дерзкий ответ (back-chat, back-talk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neučtivo odgovaranje. (various references) | |
Swedish | skämtsam replikväxling. (various references) | |
Turkish | karşılık verme (answering back, back talk, reciprocation), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, boldness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backchat": backchats. (additional references) | |
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"Backchat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacchae, bacciata, Bakhtar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-h-k-t" | |
-2 letters: bhakta. | |
-3 letters: aback, bacca, batch, catch, thack. | |
-4 letters: acta, bach, back, baht, bath, caca, chat, hack, kata, khat, tach, tack, taka. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, act, aha, baa, bah, bat, cab, cat, hat, kab, kat, tab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-h-k-t" | |
+1 letter: backchats, hatchback. | |
+2 letters: hatchbacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 63 68 61 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- -.-. .... .- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k c h a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0063 0068 0061 0074 |
| 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)3667697769746786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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