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BLENCHED

Definition: BLENCHED

BLENCHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Blench

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BLENCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Usage Frequency: BLENCHED

"BLENCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLENCHED" is used about 9 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)100%9117,287

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

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Modern Translations: BLENCHED

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

German

  

zurückgeschreckt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchedblay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BLENCHED

Derivations

Words ending with "BLENCHED": unblenched. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BLENCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blanchaed, Blanchet, blancoed, Bletchedon, Blondchen. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BLENCHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-l-n"

-1 letter: belched, benched.

-2 letters: beheld, blench, blende, leched.

-3 letters: bedel, beech, belch, bench, bleed, blend, celeb, eched, hence, leben, leech.

-4 letters: been, bend, bene, bled, cede, dele, dene, eche, hebe, heed, heel, held, lech, lend, need.

-5 letters: bed, bee, bel, ben, cee, cel, deb, dee, del, den, edh, eel, eld, end, hen, led, lee, neb, nee.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-l-n"
 

+2 letters: unbleached, unblenched.

 

+3 letters: pitchblende.

 

+4 letters: pitchblendes.

 

+5 letters: nondetachable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLENCHED


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

42 4C 45 4E 43 48 45 44

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01000010 01001100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0045 004E 0043 0048 0045 0044

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

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

3646394837423938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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