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Definition: Backless |
BacklessAdjective1. Lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
| Antonym: backed (adj). (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Backless |
| English words defined with "backless": divan ♦ low-cut. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "backless": isolating stool. (references) |
| "Backless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Backless" is used about 20 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | 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 |
backless bra | 80 |
backless strapless bra | 32 |
backless | 28 |
backless dress | 27 |
backless bench | 21 |
backless shirt | 14 |
backless top | 13 |
backless booster seat | 12 |
backless bar stool | 11 |
backless sofa | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | dos nu. (various references) | |
German | rueckenfrei, rückenfrei (halter-neck). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanpa punggung. (various references) | |
Italian | senza schienale, senza schiena o schienale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backhand, backing, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, rearview mirror, suplex, Vatican). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バックレス . (various references) | |
Manx | gyn dreeym. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklessbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem volta, sem retorno, sem encosto. (various references) | |
Russian | табуретка (backless stool, stool). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez zadnjeg dela. (various references) | |
Spanish | SIN ESPALDA, escotado por detrás. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Backless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backglass, Backleys, barkless, buckless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backless" (pronounced ba"klus) |
| 4 | -k l u s | feckless, luckless, necklace, reckless, riskless, smokeless, thankless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-s-s" | |
-2 letters: blacks, bleaks, cables, sables, scales, slacks, slakes. | |
-3 letters: ables, alecs, backs, bakes, bales, balks, bases, basks, beaks, becks, black, blase, bleak, bless, cable, cakes, calks, cases, casks, class, kales, laces, lacks, lakes, lases, leaks, sabes, sable, sacks, sakes, sales, scabs, scale, seals, slabs, slack, slake. | |
-4 letters: able, aces, albs, alec, ales, asks, back, bake, bale, balk, bals, base, bask, bass, beak, beck, bels, blae, cabs, cake, calk, case, cask, cels, cess, elks, kabs, kaes, kale, keas, labs, lace, lack, lacs, lake, lase, lass, leak, leas, leks, less, sabe, sabs, sack, sacs, sake, sale, sals, scab, seal, seas, secs, sels, skas, slab. | |
-5 letters: abs, ace, alb, ale, als, ask, ass, bal, bas, bel, cab, cel, elk, els, ess, kab, kae, kas, kea, lab, lac, las, lea, lek, sab, sac, sae, sal, sea, sec, sel, ska. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: blackness. | |
+2 letters: backlashes, backslides, leasebacks, shellbacks, shoeblacks. | |
+3 letters: backlashers, backslashes, backsliders, blackfishes, blacknesses, blacksnakes, silverbacks, swashbuckle. | |
+4 letters: backslappers, backsplashes, blacklisters, shacklebones, sticklebacks, swashbuckled, swashbuckler, swashbuckles. | |
+5 letters: swashbucklers. | |
| 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 61 63 6B 6C 65 73 73 |
| 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 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| 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)3667697778718585 |
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