B-Y

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
B-Y	Danish	B-Y krominans	Electrical Engineering, Physics
B-Y	English	Blue minus luminance	Electrical Engineering, Physics
B-Y	Greek	μπλε πλην φωτεινότητα	Electrical Engineering, Physics
B-Y	Spanish	Azul menos luminancia	Electrical Engineering, Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Usage Frequency: B-Y

"B-Y" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "B-Y" is used about 5 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)

Expression: B-Y

Anagrams: B-Y

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: by.
	Words containing the letters "b-y"
	+1 letter: aby, bay, bey, boy, buy, bye, bys, yob.
	+2 letters: ably, abye, abys, baby, bays, bevy, beys, body, bogy, bony, boxy, boyo, boys, bray, buoy, bury, busy, buys, byes, byre, byrl, byte, doby, gaby, goby, gybe, inby, obey, orby, ruby, sybo, toby, upby, yobs.
	+3 letters: abbey, abyes, abysm, abyss, ambry, baddy, badly, baffy, baggy, baldy, balky, bally, balmy, bandy, banty, barky, barmy, barny, barye, bassy, batty, bawdy, bawty, bayed, bayou, beady, beaky, beamy, beefy, beery, beigy, belay, belly, bendy, benny, berry, beryl, bialy, biddy, biffy, bigly, bilgy, billy, bitsy, bitty, blimy, blowy, bluey, blype, bobby, bogey, boggy, boney, bonny, booby, boogy, boomy, booty, boozy, borty, bosky, bossy, bothy, bousy, boyar, boyla, boyos, braky, braxy, brays, briny, brosy, bubby, buddy, buffy, buggy, bulgy, bulky, bully, bumpy, bunny, bunya, buoys, burly, burry, busby, bushy, busty, butty, butyl, buyer, bylaw, byres, byrls, byssi, bytes, byway, cabby, cobby, corby, cubby, dauby, debye, derby, dobby, ebony, embay, flyby, forby, fubsy, gabby, gybed, gybes, herby, hobby, hubby, inbye, lamby, limby, lobby, looby, maybe, nobby, nobly, nubby, obeys, outby, rebuy, ribby, rugby, sibyl, tabby, tubby, upbye, webby, womby, yerba, yobbo.
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Alternative Orthography: B-Y

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

42 2D 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01000010 00101101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#45 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 002D 0059

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Preposition (except "of")	100%	5	157,705

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: B-Y

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Crosswords: B-Y