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Bewilderingly

Definition: Bewilderingly

Bewilderingly

Adverb

1. In a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear".

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

Date "bewilderingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

 

Synonym: Bewilderingly

Synonym: confusingly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bewilderingly

English words defined with "bewilderingly": confusingly. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Bewilderingly

"Bewilderingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bewilderingly" is used about 16 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
Adverb (general)100%1687,710

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

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Modern Translations: Bewilderingly

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

Chinese 

  

迷惑 (Bewilder, Bewildered, Bewildering, Confound, Confounded, Confounding, Enchant, Enchanted, Enchanting, Mystify, Obfuscation). (various references)

   

French

  

troublante. (various references)

   

German

  

verwirrende (bafflingly, confusing, confusingly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zavarba ejtően, megtévesztően. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

어리둥 하게 하. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewilderinglybay

   

Russian 

  

странно (curiously, oddly, peculiarly, queerly, strangeways, weirdly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bewilderingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-r-w-y"

-2 letters: bewildering.

-4 letters: bridewell, indelible, indelibly, indweller, leeringly, rebelling, rebilling, rewelding, ridgeline, wildering, willinger.

-5 letters: bedewing, begirdle, bellying, beringed, beryline, bewilder, bewinged, bielding, bleeding, breeding, bridling, drilling, dwelling, elidible, eligible, eligibly, engirdle, gerbille, greedily, inedible, legendry, libeling, linebred, lingered, lingerie, rebilled, redyeing, reedling, rendible, wedeling, weregild, wieldier, wielding, wildling, willying, wingedly, yielding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bewilderingly


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

42 65 77 69 6C 64 65 72 69 6E 67 6C 79

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)

-...    .    .--.    ..    .-..    -..    .    .-.    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

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

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

01000010 01100101 01110111 01101001 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#119 &#105 &#108 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0077 0069 006C 0064 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

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

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

36718975787071847580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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