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Definitions: Beady |
BeadyAdjective1. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes". 2. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beady" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Synonyms: BeadySynonyms: beaded (adj), beadlike (adj), bejeweled (adj), bejewelled (adj), bespangled (adj), buttonlike (adj), buttony (adj), gemmed (adj), jeweled (adj), jewelled (adj), sequined (adj), spangled (adj), spangly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beady |
| English words defined with "beady": beadlike, buttonlike, buttony ♦ Full-winged. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Beady" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beady" is used about 56 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% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beady" 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 |
| Beady | Last name | 100 | 88,033 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "beady": beaded beady bejeweled bejewelled bespangled gemmed jeweled jewelled sequined spangled spangly ♦ beady eyes ♦ beady liquor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beady": beady-eyed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
beady belle | 31 |
beady buddy | 20 |
beady critters | 5 |
beady baby | 4 |
beady | 4 |
beady buddy pattern | 3 |
beady mr | 3 |
beady eyed woman | 2 |
beady bell | 2 |
beady belle lyrics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beady"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si rruazë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خرزى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мънистен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | korálkovitý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | perlend (liquid, sparkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χάντρινος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyöngyszerű (pearly), gombszemű. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piccolo e luccicante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadybay redondo (orbicular, orbit, round, spheral, spheric, spherical), lustroso (glacial, glazed brick, glazy, glints, glossy, lustrous, sheen, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), enfeitado com pérolas, em forma de contas, coberto de gotas, s gotas. (various references) rourat, plin de mãrgele, plin de broboane, cu mãrgele. (various references) похожий на бусинку. (various references) u obliku perle. (various references) de forma de abalorio. (various references) pärlformad. (various references) เหมือนลูกปั". (various references) boncuklu (beaded), boncuk gibi, kabarcıklı (blistered, bubbly, papillary, vesicular), köpüklü (barmy, fizzy, foamy, frothy, sparkling, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty). (various references) вкритий краплями, пузирчастий (cystic). (various references) phủ đầy giọt, nhỏ như hạt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Beady" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baaad, ba-aby, Badawy, Badi, Bady, Baudy, Bazadi, Bcefaddb, beade, beadie, beadly, beardie, beary, beatie, beaty, beauy, beay, beda, Bedad, bedae, bedai, bedap, beday, beddy, beedy, beid, benadryl, beod, Biado, Bidandi, biday, Bidayuh, boady, boayd, boday, bueaty, buudy, cead, ebadd, Genady, meady, Obeidi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beady" (pronounced bē"dē) |
| 3 | -ē" d ē | deedy, greedy, Midi, needy, reedy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bayed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-y" | |
-1 letter: abed, abye, bade, bead. | |
-2 letters: aby, aye, bad, bay, bed, bey, bye, dab, day, deb, dey, dye, yea. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ae, ay, ba, be, by, de, ed, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-y" | |
+1 letter: belady, benday, brayed, bready, daybed, dyable, redbay. | |
+2 letters: beadily, beeyard, belayed, bendays, daubery, daybeds, dryable, dyeable, embayed, redbays. | |
+3 letters: abasedly, badgerly, bayadeer, bayadere, beeyards, bendayed, bendways, betrayed, bewrayed, biasedly, bladdery, boneyard, bypassed, carboyed, daybreak, deniably, diablery, keyboard, readably, subwayed, yabbered. | |
+4 letters: anybodies, bayadeers, bayaderes, bayoneted, beladying, belatedly, bellyband, bendaying, bipedally, blarneyed, boneyards, budgetary, butylated, bystander, daybreaks, definably, desirably, endurably, eyeballed, graybeard, keyboards, molybdate, shadberry, syllabled, twayblade. | |
+5 letters: ballyhooed, bawdyhouse, bayonetted, bellyached, bellybands, bioassayed, bipedality, bystanders, creditably, cybernated, debauchery, debonairly, defrayable, delectably, dependably, deplorably, deployable, despicably, detachably, detestably, dialyzable, disyllable, dyeability, graybeards, keyboarded, keyboarder, lumberyard, molybdates, obdurately, perdurably, prebendary, rekeyboard, swaybacked, twayblades, unabatedly, undeniably. | |
| 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 65 61 64 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- -.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0064 0079 |
| 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)3671677091 |
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