Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

biden

/ˈbaɪdən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables: biden
IPA: /ˈbaɪdən/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

name

Example Sentences

"First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face."
"Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”"

Etymology

Ultimately from Old French bouton (“button”), a metonymic surname for a button-maker, of Germanic origin. See button.

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: bouton, -

Inflected Forms

Bidens (plural)

Derived Forms

Bidencare Bidenese Bidenesque Bidenflation Bidenian Bidenism Bidenist Bidenite Bidenoid Bidenomics Bidentard Bidenworld

Phrases

Beijing Biden Biden bucks

Synonyms

46 Beijing Biden Bidet Brandon Xiden

Rhymes With

widen poseidon dryden haydn leyden sidon iden bryden ryden heiden hyden lyden

Questions

How do you pronounce biden?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbaɪdən/.
What does biden mean?: A surname.
Where does biden come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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