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Definition: Biennially |
BienniallyAdverb1. Every two years; "this festival takes places biennially". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Biennially |
| English words defined with "biennially": Isthmian Games. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "biennially": AHS-NS. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Belgium | A national bargaining process covers inter-professional agreements that the trade union confederations negotiate biennially with the government and the employers' associations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Biennially" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Biennially" is used about 9 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
biennially | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "biennially"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 每两年地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | zweijährlich (biennial, two-yearly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 격년 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | gagh derrey vlein, gagh daa vlein (bi-annual). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ienniallybay iki yılda bir. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Biennially" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biannially. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "biennially" (pronounced 'Bi*en"ni*al*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-l-n-n-y" | |
-2 letters: biennial. | |
-3 letters: alienly, aniline, biennia, inanely, linable. | |
-4 letters: alible, anilin, bailey, bailie, billie, blenny, byline, labile, lanely, leanly, liable, lienal, lineal, lineny, nielli. | |
-5 letters: alibi, alien, aline, alley, anile, bally, belay, belly, benni, benny, biali, bialy, billy, binal, blain, blini, elain, ileal, ilial, inane, inbye, inlay, label, liane, libel, linen, liney, linin, nelly. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-l-n-n-y" | |
+1 letter: inalienably. | |
+4 letters: inalienability. | |
+5 letters: invulnerability. | |
| 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 69 65 6E 6E 69 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. . -. -. .. .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i e n n i a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0065 006E 006E 0069 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
| 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)36757180807567787891 |
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