Abuzz

Definition: Abuzz

Abuzz

Adjective

1. Noisy like the sound of a bee; "the room was abuzz over the latest scandal".

Note: Abuzz \A*buzz"\, adjective. [Prefix a- buzz.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Abuzz

Synonyms: buzzing (adj), droning (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Abuzz

English words defined with "abuzz": buzzing ♦ droning ♦ swarm ♦ teem. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Scholastic Bulletin Board Set: We're Abuzz About Books (reference) We're Abuzz About Books Trimmer (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Abuzz" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Abuzz" 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	71.43%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	14.29%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "abuzz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që gumëzhin, energjik (active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian		гъмжащ (alive), зашумял, бръмчащ (humming). (various references)

Hungarian		zümmögõ (buzzer, humming), zümmögés (buzz, drone, droning, hum, humming, singing, whirr). (various references)

Pig Latin		abuzzay.(various references)

Portuguese		ativo (acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetics, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, strenuous, vivacious, vivid), zumbidor, ocupado (busy, devastated, engaged, occupied territory), movimentado (active, bustling, upbeat). (various references)

Russian		гудящий, деятельный (active, effective, live, on the jump, stirring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		živahan (active, cheery, effervescent, live, mercurial, merry, perky, pert, spirited, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish		activo (active, active voice, alert, alive, asset, assets, bouncy, brisk, bustling, deedful, enabled, hardworking, humming, in action, N 10, radioactive, resources, spry, tangible, transitive, U10, up and doing), ocupado (busy, engaged, kept, lined, occupied, taken), movido (active, disposed, labored, laboured, restless, swinging). (various references)

Ukranian		діяльний (active, busy, deedful, humming, omnific, operose, rash, stirring). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Abuzz" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abez, abus, abuz, abz, Aruz, atuz, auz, bauz, Capuzzo, Gambuzzi, Mabuza, obizzi, obuzz, Yavuz. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "abuzz" (pronounced ubu"z)
3	-b u" z	buzz.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-u-z-z"
	-1 letter: buzz.
	-3 letters: ab, ba.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-u-z-z"
	+2 letters: buzzard.
	+3 letters: buzzards.
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