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Definition: Bejewelled |
BejewelledAdjective1. 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: BejewelledSynonyms: beaded (adj), beady (adj), bejeweled (adj), bespangled (adj), gemmed (adj), jeweled (adj), jewelled (adj), sequined (adj), spangled (adj), spangly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bejewelled |
| Etymologies containing "bejewelled": Bejewel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bejewelled (1991) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 77.27% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 обвешанный драгоценностями. (various references) enjoyado. (various references) ประ"ับ"้วยเครื่องเพชรหรือสวมเพชร (bejeweled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. 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 6A 65 77 65 6C 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .--- . .--. . .-.. .-.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101010 01100101 01110111 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e j e w e l l e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717671897178787170 |
| 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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