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Carbonara

Definition: Carbonara

Carbonara

Noun

1. Sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese.

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

 

Modern Usage: Carbonara

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Carbonara (2000)

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

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Usage Frequency: Carbonara

"Carbonara" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Carbonara" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.71%6143,867
Noun (proper)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Carbonara

The following table summarizes the usage of "carbonara" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CarbonaraLast name17041,164
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carbonara

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

carbonara

62

spaghetti carbonara

39

pasta carbonara

32

carbonara recipe

24

carbonara sauce

23

spaghetti carbonara recipe

13

carbonara chicken

12

pasta carbonara recipe

11

carbonara recipe sauce

7

alla carbonara spaghetti

6

carbonara chicken recipe

6

carbonara fettuccine

5

carbonara spagetti

4

carbonara patte

4

carbonara history

4

carbonara la spaghetti

2

carbonara rezept spaghetti

2

carbonara diane

2

alla carbonara

2

carbonara cocina de la pasta recetas

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carbonara

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

カルボキシル基 (carboxyl group). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

カルボナーラ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arbonaracay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Carbonara

Derivations

Words beginning with "carbonara": carbonaras. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carbonara"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "carbonara" (pronounced kÄrbōnÄ"ru)
3-Ä" r ucaracara, Samsara, tiara, vara.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Carbonara

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-n-o-r-r"

-1 letter: barranca, barranco.

-2 letters: araroba, carabao, carbarn, carbora.

-3 letters: arcana, arroba, cabana, carbon, corban, rancor.

-4 letters: abaca, acorn, arbor, bacon, banco, baron, bronc, carbo, carob, cobra, narco, racon.

-5 letters: anoa, arco, barn, boar, bora, born, bran, carb, carn, carr, corn, crab, narc, orca, orra, roan, roar.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-c-n-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: carbonaras.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Carbonara


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

43 61 72 62 6F 6E 61 72 61

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)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0062 006F 006E 0061 0072 0061

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

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

376784688180678467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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