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| 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 |
BBB | English | Bach,Beethoven,Brahms | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | BBB (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | URUGUAY | In 1997, Uruguay's risk rating for long-term debt issued in foreign currency was upgraded to BBB minus by Standard & Poor's, Duff & Phelps, and Europe's IBCA and to Baa3 by Moody's. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BBB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BBB" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bbb | 4,238 | bbb colorado | 10 |
bbb online | 70 | bbb michigan | 10 |
bbb sabrina | 62 | bbb phoenix | 10 |
bbb viviane | 57 | bbb ny | 9 |
bbb houston | 37 | atlanta bbb | 9 |
bbb florida | 28 | bbb nua sabrina | 9 |
bbb vivi | 21 | bbb cleveland | 9 |
bbb california | 21 | az bbb | 8 |
bbb diego san | 21 | bbb cincinnati | 8 |
bbb dallas | 20 | bbb logo | 7 |
arizona bbb | 18 | bbb nj | 7 |
bbb nua viviane | 16 | bbb dallas texas | 7 |
bbb texas | 14 | bbb nua vivi | 7 |
bbb ohio | 14 | bbb southland | 6 |
bbb las vegas | 13 | bbb charlotte | 6 |
bbb canada | 13 | bbb sexy viviane | 6 |
bbb indiana | 12 | bbb vancouver | 6 |
bbb new york | 12 | bbb com | 6 |
bbb louis st | 11 | bbb minnesota | 6 |
bbb denver | 11 | bbb illinois | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-b" | |
+1 letter: bibb. | |
+2 letters: bibbs, bobby, bubby. | |
+3 letters: babble, baobab, bibbed, bibber, blabby, blebby, bobbed, bobber, bobbin, bobble, bubble, bubbly, hubbub. | |
+4 letters: abubble, babbitt, babbled, babbler, babbles, baobabs, bibbers, bibbery, bibbing, blabbed, blabber, blobbed, blubbed, blubber, bobbers, bobbery, bobbies, bobbing, bobbins, bobbled, bobbles, brabble, bubbies, bubbled, bubbler, bubbles, hubbubs. | |
+5 letters: babbitts, babblers, babbling, bedabble, blabbers, blabbing, blobbing, blubbers, blubbery, blubbing, bobbinet, bobbling, brabbled, brabbler, brabbles, bribable, bubblers, bubblier, bubblies, bubbling, cobwebby, rubbaboo, subabbot, tubbable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 42 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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 01000010 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B B B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0042 0042 |
| 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)363636 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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