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Definition: Bigamous |
BigamousAdjective1. Of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Bigamous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bigamous" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bigamous": semi-bigamous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bigamous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me dy gra njëkohësisht, me dy burra njëkohësisht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متزوج من إمرئتين (bigamist), متزوج على ضر, مضار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | двубрачен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bigamický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دارای دوزن یادوشوهر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bigame (bigamist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bigamisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δίγαμοσ (bigamist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בי'מי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bigamista (bigamist), bigámiai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | beristri dua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bigamo (bigamist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igamousbay bigam (bigamist). (various references) имеющая двух мужей, имеющий двух жен. (various references) bigamijski. (various references) bígamo (bigamist). (various references) bigamisk. (various references) iki eşli. (various references) có hai vợ, có hai ch"ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bigamous": bigamously. (additional references) | |
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"Bigamous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biarmicus, bigamo, biramous, Bouamoud, higamous, tinamous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bigamous" (pronounced 'Big"a*mous'): Abnormous, Achymous, Acrotomous, Aetheogamous, Agamous, Allogamous, Allonymous, Amphigamous, Amphistomous, Anadromous, Androtomous, Angiomonospermous, Angiospermous, Angiostomous, Anonymous, Antidromous, Antistrumous, Aspermous, Athalamous, Athermous, Autogamous, Autonomous, Azymous, Biramous, Blasphemous, Brumous, Campylospermous, Catadromous, Catanadromous, Chromous, Chymous, Coelospermous, Defamous, Diathermous, Diatomous, Dichogamous, Dichotomous, Didymous, Didynamous, Digamous, Disspermous, Ditrichotomous, Edriophthalmous, Endogamous, Enneaspermous, Enormous, Epiphylospermous, Eponymous, Equanimous, Exanimous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-m-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: amigos, biogas, gumbos, iambus, imagos, miaous. | |
-3 letters: agios, agism, ambos, amigo, bimas, bogus, gambs, gaums, gismo, gumbo, iambs, imago, magus, miaou, obias, ogams, sagum, sambo, sigma, umbos. | |
-4 letters: abos, agio, aims, ambo, amis, amus, bags, bams, bias, bigs, bima, bios, boas, bogs, bugs, bums, gabs, gamb, gams, gaum, gibs, goas, gobs, gums, iamb. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-m-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ambiguous. | |
+2 letters: bigamously, seaborgium. | |
+3 letters: ambiguously, seaborgiums, unambiguous. | |
+4 letters: nonambiguous, submicrogram. | |
+5 letters: ambiguousness, bildungsroman, unambiguously. | |
| 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 67 61 6D 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. --. .- -- --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g a m o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 0061 006D 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675736779818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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