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Definition: Bechamel |
BechamelNoun1. Milk thickened with a butter and flour roux. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BechamelSynonyms: bechamel sauce (n), white sauce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bechamel |
| English words defined with "bechamel": bechamel sauce. (references) |
| "Bechamel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Bechamel" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bechamel": bechamel sauce. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
bechamel | 38 |
bechamel sauce | 32 |
bechamel clothing | 7 |
bechamel recipe sauce | 7 |
bechamel salsa | 6 |
bechamel clothes | 3 |
bechamel molho | 2 |
bechamel recipe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bechamel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صلصة (dressing, sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бял сос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bechamelsovs (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bechamelsaus (bechamel sauce), met een mengsel van boter en bloem bereide melksaus... (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valkokastike (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | béchamel (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Béchamelsoße (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρέμα μπεσαμέλ (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | besamel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | besciamella (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ベクトル値 (bechamel sauce, bed, bed house, bedroom, bedroom community, bedroom scene, best, best condition, best dresser, best member, best ten, best-seller, bet, beta, better, better half, going to bed, having reached the quarterfinals, having reached the semifinals, vector value, vegetable, vegetarian, vest, vet, veteran, Vietnam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベシャメルソース (bechamel sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | echamelbay molho bechamel (bechamel sauce). (various references) соус бешамель. (various references) bešamel. (various references) besamel. (various references) bechamelsås (bechamel sauce), béchamelsås (bechamel sauce), vit grundsås (bechamel sauce). (various references) nước xốt bêsamen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bechamel": bechamels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bechamel" (pronounced 'Bech"a*mel'): Bepommel, Caramel, Caromel, Charmel, Entrammel, Flockmel, Fummel, Harmel, Hemmel, hydromel, kummel, OEnomel, Oxymel, Philomel, Picromel, Rammel, Rodomel, Trommel, Wammel, Whammel, Ymel. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-m" | |
-2 letters: becalm, became, bleach, chelae. | |
-3 letters: abele, almeh, amble, beach, beech, belch, blame, cable, camel, celeb, chela, hemal, leach, leech, mache, macle. | |
-4 letters: able, ache, acme, ahem, alec, alee, alme, bach, bale, balm, beam, bema, blae, blah, blam, calm, came, cham, clam, each, eche, haem, hale, halm, hame, heal, hebe, heel, helm, heme, lace, lamb, lame, lech, mabe, mace, mach, male, meal. | |
-5 letters: ace, alb, ale, bah, bal, bam, bee, bel, cab, cam, cee, cel, eel, elm, eme, hae, ham, hem, lab, lac, lam, lea, lee, mac, mae, mel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-m" | |
+1 letter: bechamels. | |
+3 letters: impeachable, machineable. | |
+4 letters: mechanizable, merchantable. | |
+5 letters: unimpeachable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 63 68 61 6D 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.-. .... .- -- . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e c h a m e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0063 0068 0061 006D 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671697467797178 |
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