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Definition: Beachy |
BeachyAdjective1. (of a shore or shoreline) having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beachy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonym: BeachySynonym: beachlike (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cliffy (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, almost as tragic as Archbishop Bertum being struck by a falling gargoyle while swimming off Beachy Head (The Black Adder; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Rowan Atkinson) | |
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| "Lighthouse" by Stefanie Varga Commentary: "The Beachy Head Lighthouse with a sharp cliff in the background, South England, Autumn 2002." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Beachy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.08% of the time. "Beachy" is used about 51 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 (proper) | 96.08% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beachy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beachy | Last name | 400 | 21,058 |
| 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 |
beachy nike thong | 14 |
beachy head | 7 |
beachy | 6 |
amish beachy | 4 |
beachy head suicide | 4 |
beachy nike thong womens | 3 |
beachy death head | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beachy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukrainian | Гальковий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beachy" (pronounced bē"khē) |
| 4 | b ē" kh ē | beechy. |
| 3 | -ē" kh ē | chichi, peachy, preachy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-y" | |
-1 letter: beach. | |
-2 letters: abye, ache, achy, bach, chay, each, yeah, yech. | |
-3 letters: aby, ace, aye, bah, bay, bey, bye, cab, cay, hae, hay, hey, yah, yea, yeh. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ah, ay, ba, be, by, eh, ha, he, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-h-y" | |
+2 letters: beachboy. | |
+3 letters: beachboys, bellyache, hackberry, teachably. | |
+4 letters: bellyached, bellyacher, bellyaches, chalybeate, changeably, chinaberry, debauchery, detachably, eurybathic, hyperbaric. | |
+5 letters: bathymetric, bathyscaphe, bellyachers, bellyaching, chalybeates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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