Bedclothes

Definition: Bedclothes

Bedclothes

Noun

1. Covering that are used on a bed.

Date "bedclothes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Bedclothes

Synonyms: bed clothing (n), bedding (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Bedclothes

English words defined with "bedclothes": bed jacket ♦ Floccillation ♦ mattress cover ♦ throw. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Down with your bedclothes, Up with your nightshirt (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Buried in Her Bedclothes [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He looked at Stephen over the bedclothes as he spoke.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	But a little movement started among the bedclothes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use disposable bedclothes and other cloth for contact with the patient. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bedclothes" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "Bedclothes" is used about 156 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 (plural)	99.36%	155	25,240
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.64%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	156	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "bedclothes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtresa e mbulesa. (various references)

Bulgarian		спално бельо (linen), постелки и завивки. (various references)

Chinese		被褥 (bedding). (various references)

Czech		ložní prádlo (sheeting), lùžkoviny (bedding). (various references)

Finnish		vuodevaatteet (bedding). (various references)

French		couvertures (bed clothes). (various references)

German		bettzeug (bedding). (various references)

Greek		κλινοσκεπάσματα (bed clothes, bedding, linen). (various references)

Hebrew		כלי מט�" (bedding). (various references)

Hungarian		ágynemû (bedding, sheets). (various references)

Indonesian		seperai (bedspread, sheet), sarung guling, sarung bantal (pillow wease). (various references)

Italian		biancheria e coperte da letto, lenzuola (bed linen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		夏布団 (summer bedclothes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なつぶと�" (summer bedclothes). (various references)

Manx		eaddeeyn lhiabbagh (bedding). (various references)

Pig Latin		edclothesbay

Russian		постельное белье (bed-clothes). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posteljina (linen). (various references)

Spanish		ropa de cama (bed linen, bedding, linen). (various references)

Swedish		sängkläder (bedding, clothes). (various references)

Thai		ผ้าปูที่นอนหรือผ้าคลุมเตียง. (various references)

Turkish		yatak takımları (clothes), yatak örtüleri. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-l-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: beclothed, beclothes.
	-2 letters: beclothe, blotched, blotches, closeted, hosteled.
	-3 letters: beholds, belched, belches, bethels, boldest, boletes, botched, botches, cestode, chested, clothed, clothes, coldest, escoted, hotbeds, letched, letches.
	-4 letters: bedels, beheld, behest, behold, belted, bested, betels, bethel, bleeds, blotch, boches, bolete, bolted, botels, celebs, closed, closet, clothe, cloths, cobles, coshed, costed, dholes, echoed, echoes, eldest, elects, etched, etches, helots, hosted, hostel, hotbed, hotels, leched, leches, lethes, oldest, select, stoled, teched, thebes, tholed, tholes.
	-5 letters: bedel, beech, beets, belch, belts, beset, besot, betel, beths, bleed, blest, blets, blocs, blots, boche, bodes, bolds, boles, bolts, botch, botel, cedes, celeb, celts, cetes, chest, chose, clods, close, cloth, clots, coble, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, colts, coset, coted, cotes, debts, decos, deets, deles, delts, dhole, doest, doeth, dolce, doles, dolts, dotes, eched, eches, echos, elect, escot, ethos, hebes, heeds, heels, helos, helot, holds, holed, holes, holts, hosed, hosel, hotel, leech, leets, letch, lethe, lobed, lobes, lochs, lodes, obese, scold, sheet, sheol, shoed, shote, sleet, sloth, socle, soled, steed, steel, stele, stole, teels, teles, telos, thebe, these, thole, those, toled, toles.
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