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Bejewelled

Definition: Bejewelled

Bejewelled

Adjective

1. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bejewelled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Synonyms: Bejewelled

Synonyms: beaded (adj), beady (adj), bejeweled (adj), bespangled (adj), gemmed (adj), jeweled (adj), jewelled (adj), sequined (adj), spangled (adj), spangly (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bejewelled

Etymologies containing "bejewelled": Bejewel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bejewelled

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bejewelled (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bejewelled

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bejewelled

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Bejewelled

"Bejewelled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.27% of the time. "Bejewelled" is used about 22 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)77.27%1785,106
Lexical Verb (past participle)9.09%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past tense)9.09%2245,945
Noun (proper)4.55%1339,140
                    Total100.00%22N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bejewelled

Expression using "bejewelled": beaded beady bejeweled bejewelled bespangled gemmed jeweled jewelled sequined spangled spangly. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bejewelled

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bejewelled

371

bejewelled game

38

bejewelled free

6

bejewelled free game

5

bejewelled msn

4

bejewelled download free

3

bejewelled play

3

bejewelled deluxe

3

bejewelled download

2

bejewelled game msn

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bejewelled

Language Translations for "bejewelled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مرصع بالجواهر. (various references)

   

French

  

paré de bijoux, incrusté de joyaux, émaillé de. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ejewelledbay

   

Russian 

  

обвешанный драгоценностями. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enjoyado. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ประ"ับ"้วยเครื่องเพชรหรือสวมเพชร (bejeweled). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bejewelled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-e-j-l-l-w"

-1 letter: bejeweled.

-2 letters: jewelled.

-3 letters: bejewel, jeweled.

-4 letters: bedell, belled, djebel, jelled, welled.

-5 letters: bedel, bedew, belle, bleed, dweeb, dwell, jebel, jewed, jewel, wedel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bejewelled


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6A 65 77 65 6C 6C 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101010 01100101 01110111 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#106 &#101 &#119 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006A 0065 0077 0065 006C 006C 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36717671897178787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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