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Definition: BYRONIC |
BYRONICAdjective1. Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. |
Date "BYRONIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
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| "BYRONIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BYRONIC" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BYRONIC": un-byronic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
byronic hero | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BYRONIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | byroniano. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yronicbay byronian, baironian, cinic (barefaced, brazen, brazenly, cynic, cynical, cynically, shameless, shamelessly, unblushingly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BYRONIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Borovik, Bryncir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BYRONIC" (pronounced 'By"ron`ic'): Cacographic, Chop-logic, Crustific, Mechanographic, Onirocritic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-n-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: bicorn, bicron, briony. | |
-2 letters: boric, briny, bronc, corby, corny, crony, irony, orcin, robin, yonic. | |
-3 letters: bony, born, brin, brio, cion, coin, coir, coni, cony, corn, cory, crib, icon, inby, inro, iron, noir, nori, orby, yoni. | |
-4 letters: bin, bio, boy, bro, cob, con, cor, coy, cry, icy, ion, nib, nob, nor, obi, orb, orc, rib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-n-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: baryonic. | |
+2 letters: embryonic. | |
+3 letters: carbonylic, corybantic, incubatory. | |
+4 letters: benedictory, binocularly, bronchially, chrysarobin, combinatory, convertibly, cybernation, embryogenic. | |
+5 letters: binocularity, chrysarobins, considerably, contributory, currycombing, cybernations, fibrinolytic, incomparably, incorrigibly, noncelebrity, recognizably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 59 52 4F 4E 49 43 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -.--. .-. --- -. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01011001 01010010 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B Y R O N I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0059 0052 004F 004E 0049 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36595249484337 |
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