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Definition: Bespattered |
BespatteredAdjective1. Spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bespattered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Synonyms: BespatteredSynonyms: besplashed (adj), spattered (adj), splashed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bespattered |
| English words defined with "bespattered": Aspersed ♦ besplashed ♦ spattered, splashed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bespattered": DAGGLETAIL, DRAGGLETAIL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bespattered": Bespatter. (references) |
| "Bespattered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Bespattered" is used about 7 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) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bespattered": blood-bespattered, ink-bespattered, mud-bespattered, paint-bespattered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bespattered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | оплют (infamous, spat at). (various references) | ||||
Czech | potřísnìný (stained). (various references) | ||||
German | spritzte (sloshed, sprayed). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | bersimbah (be drenched). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | espatteredbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Bespattered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besmattered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: bespatter, departees, desperate, estreated, pretasted, pretested, spattered. | |
-3 letters: abetters, adeptest, battered, bedrapes, berettas, besetter, bespread, bettered, breasted, debaters, departee, detester, pattered, peartest, pederast, pestered, predates, pretaste, rapeseed, repasted, repeated, reseated, restated, retasted, retested, trapesed. | |
-4 letters: abetted, abetter, adepter, batters, beaters, bedrape, beepers, berated, berates, beretta, bestead, betters, dabster, dearest, debaser, debater, debates, deepest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 70 61 74 74 65 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... .--. .- - - . .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s p a t t e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 0070 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671858267868671847170 |
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