Berceuse

Definition: Berceuse

Berceuse

Noun

1. A quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.

Date "berceuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)

Etymology: Berceuse \Ber`ceuse"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Berceuse

Synonyms: cradlesong (n), lullaby (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Berceuse

Non-English Usage: "Berceuse" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (lullaby).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	La Dernière berceuse (1930)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Berceuse ; suivi de Impromptu d'Ohio (reference) Berceuse and Sarabande (reference) Berceuse électrique (reference) Lullaby Berceuse (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Chopin: Polonaises; Fantaisie Impromptu; Tarantella; Berceuse (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Berceuse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Berceuse" is used about 3 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)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	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 "berceuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		arrane clean (cradle song). (various references)

Pig Latin		erceusebay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "berceuse": berceuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Berceuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beceuse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: becurse.
	-2 letters: cereus, ceruse, creese, cubers, rebecs, recuse, rescue, secure.
	-3 letters: beers, brees, burse, ceres, cruse, cuber, cubes, curbs, cures, curse, ecrus, rebec, rebus, resee, reuse, rubes, scree, scrub, suber, sucre.
	-4 letters: beer, bees, bree, burs, cees, cere, crus, cube, cubs, cues, curb, cure, curs, ecru, ecus, rebs, recs, rees, rube, rubs, rues, ruse.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-e-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: berceuses.
	+2 letters: unbreeches.
	+3 letters: cerebellums, exuberances, submergence.
	+4 letters: cheeseburger, debaucheries, prepubescent, recumbencies, submergences, subservience.
	+5 letters: bureaucratese, cheeseburgers, curablenesses, disencumbered, huckleberries, obscurenesses, prepubescence, prepubescents, rubberneckers, subserviences, unrespectable, unserviceable.
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