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Definition: Bespectacled |
BespectacledAdjective1. Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; "a bespectacled grandmother"; "the monocled gentleman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bespectacled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Synonyms: BespectacledSynonyms: monocled (adj), spectacled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bespectacled |
| English words defined with "bespectacled": monocled ♦ spectacled. (references) |
| "Bespectacled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bespectacled" is used about 86 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) | 100% | 86 | 35,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bespectacled": bespectacled monocled spectacled. 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 |
bespectacled | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bespectacled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me syzet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واصي على شىء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | очилат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obrýlený (Spectacled), nosící brýle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lunettes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bebrillt (spectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממושקף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemüveges (spectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | speckleyragh (spectacled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | espectacledbay носящий очки. (various references) koji nosi naočare (spectacled). (various references) que lleva gafas (spectacled), con gafas (Spectacled). (various references) glasögonbärare. (various references) ซึ่งสวมแว่นตา. (various references) gözlüklü (Spectacled). (various references) що носить окуляри. (various references) đeo kính. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bespectacled" (pronounced buspe"ktukuld) |
| 4 | -k u l d | bicycled, buckled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, crackled, cycled, encircled, freckled, heckled, knuckled, pickled, rankled, recycled, shackled, sparkled, speckled, sprinkled, tackled, tickled, tinkled, trickled, unshackled, wrinkled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bevelled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, spiraled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-e-e-e-l-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: spectacled. | |
-3 letters: acceptees, beclasped, bedplates, spectacle. | |
-4 letters: accepted, acceptee, bedplate, beleaped, capelets, debacles, depletes, deselect, peccable, pedestal, selected, steepled, teaseled. | |
-5 letters: accedes, accepts, baldest, beadles, beclasp, beetled, beetles, belaced, belated, beleaps, beleapt, bestead, blasted, bleated, bleeped, cablets, capelet, caplets, castled, celesta, celeste, clasped, cleated, debacle, debates, decease, deepest, delates, deletes, deplete, elapsed, elected, escaped. | |
| 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 73 70 65 63 74 61 63 6C 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 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100001 01100011 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s p e c t a c l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 0070 0065 0063 0074 0061 0063 006C 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367185827169866769787170 |
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