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Frontbencher

Definition: Frontbencher

Frontbencher

Noun

1. A member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is a minister or an ex-minister.

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


Usage Frequency: Frontbencher

"Frontbencher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frontbencher" is used about 6 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)100%6143,867

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

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Anagrams: Frontbencher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-f-h-n-n-o-r-r-t"

-3 letters: rencontre.

-4 letters: brethren, coherent, confrere, cretonne, enforcer, enthrone, entrench, freeborn, northern, retrench, therefor, torchere, trencher.

-5 letters: bencher, bethorn, botcher, brother, centner, coherer, crofter, enforce, enrober, enteron, erector, fetcher, fronter, horrent, norther, notcher, oftener, refront, tenoner, thereof, thereon, trochee.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Frontbencher


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

46 72 6F 6E 74 62 65 6E 63 68 65 72

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)

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

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

01000110 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 006F 006E 0074 0062 0065 006E 0063 0068 0065 0072

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

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

408481808668718069747184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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