Baseborn

Definitions: Baseborn

Baseborn

Adjective

1. Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth".

2. (archaic) illegitimate.

Date "baseborn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Synonyms: Baseborn

Synonyms: base (adj), humble (adj), lowly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Commonalty	Plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Baseborn

Etymologies containing "baseborn": Bastardly. (references)

"Baseborn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baseborn" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "baseborn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		anooasle (humble, ignoble, low born). (various references)

Pig Latin		asebornbay

Romanian		nelegitim (base, bastard, born on the wrong side of the blanket, illegitimate, irregular, misbegotten), din pãrinţi sãraci. (various references)

Spanish		bastardo (bastard, hybrid, misbegotten, mixture, mongrel), de baja estirpe. (various references)

Thai		เกิ�"ในครอบครัวที่ต่ำต้อย. (various references)

Turkish		soysuz (degenerate, yellow dog), piç (bastard, bastard slip, illegitimate, illegitimate child, misbegotten, natural child, spurious, sucker), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous). (various references)

Vietnamese		xuất thân tầm thường. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Baseborn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baseworx. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: boranes, nabbers.
	-2 letters: absorb, arseno, barbes, barons, beanos, boners, borane, nabber, nabobs, reason, senora, sobber.
	-3 letters: abbes, aeons, arose, arson, babes, banes, barbe, barbs, bares, barns, baron, baser, beano, beans, bears, boars, boner, bones, boras, bores, borne, braes, brans, brens, brose, earns, ebons, nabes, nabob, nares, nears, roans, robes, saber, sabre, saner, senor, snare, snore, sober, sonar.
	-4 letters: abbe, abos, aeon, aero, anes, arbs, ares, arse, babe, bane, bans, barb, bare, barn, bars, base, bean, bear, bens, boar, boas, bobs, bone, bora, bore, born, brae, bran, bras, bren, bros, earn, ears, ebbs, ebon, eons, eras, erns, eros, nabe, nabs, naos, near, nebs, nobs, noes, nose, oars, obes, ones, orbs, ores, osar, rase, rebs, roan, robe, robs, roes, rose, sabe, sane, sear, sera, snob, soar, sone, sora, sorb, sore, sorn.
	-5 letters: abo, abs, ane, arb, are, ars, ban, bar, bas, ben, boa, bob, bos, bra, bro, ear, ebb, ens, eon, era, ern, ers, nab, nae, neb, nob, nor, nos, oar, obe, oes, one, ons, ora, orb, ore, ors, ose, ran, ras, reb, res, rob, roe, sab, sae, sea, sen, ser, sob, son.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: absorbent.
	+2 letters: absorbance, absorbency, absorbents, barbitones, breastbone, naboberies, unabsorbed.
	+3 letters: absorbances, breastbones, reabsorbing, unabsorbent.
	+4 letters: absorbancies, absorbencies, bicarbonates, bombardments, nonabsorbent, unobservable.
	+5 letters: abbreviations, barbarousness, bonnyclabbers, nonabsorbable, nonabsorbents.
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