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say it: bee
b is a noun meaning "aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil". It is pronounced /ˈbi/ — bee. It carries 7 recorded senses.
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for b come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.