Bedpan

Definition: Bedpan

Bedpan

Noun

1. A shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination.

Synonyms by domain: bedpan closet (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), bedpan-cleaner (medicine).

Domain	Usage
Clever	Be really nice to your friends. You never know when you are going to need them to empty your bedpan. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Maggie Kuhn	The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Bedpan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bedpan" is used about 13 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)	100%	13	97,576

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 "bedpan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مدفئة السرير, ‏نونية السرير. (various references)

Bulgarian		подлога (sill, urinal). (various references)

Chinese		便器. (various references)

Czech		lùžková mísa. (various references)

Farsi		لگن بیماربستری . (various references)

French		bassin hygiénique, bassin. (various references)

German		bettpfanne. (various references)

Greek		πάπια (duck, muscovy duck), ουροδοχείο (urinal, urine-bottle). (various references)

Hebrew		�'רף (nightpot, washout), סיר ליל�" (night pot, potty). (various references)

Hungarian		ágytál. (various references)

Italian		padella (crucible, frying pan, pan, urinal, urine-bottle, warming pan). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		おとぎ話 (chamber pot, coweringly, fairy tale, fart, female transvestite, flattery, generally obnoxious middle-aged woman, good luck charm, hesitantly, screw, sexual intercourse, vagina, virgin), 便器 (chamber pot, urinal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おまる (chamber pot), べ�"き (chamber pot, urinal). (various references)

Pig Latin		edpanbay

Portuguese		comadre (cummer). (various references)

Russian		судно (banker, craft, hovercraft, night-chair, night-stool, ship, ship in commission, ship in distress, vessel, water craft, water-craft), металлическая грелка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nokšir (jordan, pisspot), noćni sud (chamber pot), noša (potty). (various references)

Spanish		calentador de cama (bed warmer). (various references)

Swedish		bäcken (basin, cymbal, fold, pan, pelvic, pelvis). (various references)

Thai		หม้อนอนสำหรับถ่ายอุจจาระและปัสสาวะบนเตียง. (various references)

Turkish		yatak lâzımlığı, sürgü (bar, bolt, chamber pot, clack, cursor, Harrow, pusher, slide, sliding bar, urinal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bedpan": bedpans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bedpan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badgan, baduan, Bedan, bedap, Berdan, Bezdna, Vespan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bedpan" (pronounced be"dpa'n)
5	-e" d p a' n	deadpan.
3	-p a' n	saucepan, wingspan.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-p"
	-1 letter: baned, paned.
	-2 letters: abed, aped, bade, band, bane, bead, bean, bend, dean, nabe, nape, neap, pane, pean, pend.
	-3 letters: and, ane, ape, bad, ban, bap, bed, ben, dab, dap, deb, den, end, nab, nae, nap, neb, pad, pan, pea, ped, pen.
	-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, an, ba, be, de, ed, en, na, ne, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-p"
	+1 letter: bedpans.
	+3 letters: bedraping, bepainted, prebendal, spaceband, spendable, subpenaed.
	+4 letters: bankrupted, dependable, dependably, expandable, expendable, panbroiled, paperbound, pardonable, ponderable, prebendary, spacebands, subpoenaed, unbaptized.
	+5 letters: bediapering, bespreading, dispensable, expendables, paperbounds, superabound, unadaptable, unadoptable.
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