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Definition: Fabled |
FabledAdjective1. Celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fabled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: FabledSynonym: legendary (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fabled |
| English words defined with "fabled": bestiary, Briarean ♦ Caballine spring ♦ dark, Dipsas ♦ Flying Dutchman, Fountain of Youth ♦ Ganza ♦ Hippocrene ♦ Jumart ♦ legendary ♦ monitor, monitor lizard ♦ Nelumbium speciosum ♦ Phenix, Phrygian mode ♦ snow plant, Sooterkin, Stayship, Stopship ♦ Typhoean ♦ varan ♦ Wishing cap, Wood god, Wood nymph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fabled": Bellerus ♦ Riphean ♦ TOPS-10. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fabled": Trophonian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fabled (2002) | |
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| "Fabled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.44% of the time. "Fabled" is used about 64 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) | 98.44% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fabled": much-fabled, now-fabled. | |
| 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 |
fabled soccer trader | 6 |
fabled napper | 5 |
city el fabled | 2 |
creature fabled mistic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fabled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | legjendar (fabulous, legendary), i trilluar (fabricated, feigned, fictional), i shndërruar në fabul, i sajuar (born, fabricated, mythical, put up). (various references) | |
Arabic | خرافي (fabulous, fictitious, legendary, mythical, mythological, superstitious), إسطورى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | митически (fabulous, mythical), легендарен (fabulous, legendary, mythical, storied), приказен (fabulous, fairy, legendary), измислен (fabulous, fancy, fictional, fictitious, made up, mythical, phantasmagoric, phoney, phony, spoof). (various references) | |
Czech | proslulý (celebrated, distinguished, eminent, famous, illustrious, noted, notorious, renowned, well known), pohádkový (fabulous, fairytale), legendární (legendary). (various references) | |
French | fabuleux (fabulist, fabulous), légendaire. (various references) | |
German | sagenhaft (fabulous, fabulously, fantastic, gorgeous, legendary, phenomenal, sensational, sensationally, terrific, unbelievable, unbelievably), dichtete (versified, wrote poetry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'"י (fabulous, legendary, mythical). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mesebeli (legendary), legendás (fabulous, legendary). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berantah (imaginary). (various references) | |
Italian | favoleggiato, fantastico (chimeric, crazy, eerie, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, imaginative, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Manx | jeh foaynoo mooar (celebrated, famed, renowned, reputable, tipped), far-skeealagh (fabulous, fictitious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abledfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | de fábula. (various references) | |
Romanian | fantastic (arabesque, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tall, tremendous, whimsical), nãscocit (feigned, fictitious, made), ireal (aerial, aeriform, cardboard, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, phantasmal, unreal, vaporous). (various references) | |
Russian | баснословный (fabulous). (various references) | |
Spanish | legendario (legendary). (various references) | |
Swedish | fabel- (fabulous), uppdiktad (fake, fictional, fictitious, invented, made up, trumped up), sago- (fabulous, fairy, story book). (various references) | |
Turkish | uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), efsanevi (cyclic, cyclical, larger than life, legendary, mythic, mythical). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | казковиий, вигаданий (airy, assumed, feigned, fictional, fictitious, make believe, mythic, mythical), міфічний (fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological), легендарний (fabulous, legendary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoang đường hư cấu, bịa đặt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fabled": outfabled. (additional references) | |
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"Fabled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abled, fabal, fabel, fabet, fabile, fabl, Fablon, falad, Falbae, falde, falid, fanble, farble, fibble, fiblet, foble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fabled" (pronounced fā"buld) |
| 5 | -ā" b u l d | cabled, disabled, labeled, labelled, enabled, mislabeled, tabled, unlabeled. |
| 4 | -b u l d | ambled, assembled, babbled, bubbled, cobbled, corbelled, crumbled, dabbled, dibbled, disassembled, jumbled, libeled, doubled, dribbled, enfeebled, fumbled, gambled, garbled, gobbled, grumbled, hobbled, humbled, marbled, mumbled, nibbled, rambled, reassembled, redoubled, resembled, rumbled, scrambled, scribbled, squabbled, stumbled, trebled, trembled, troubled, tumbled, untroubled, wobbled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, angled, annulled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, buckled, bundled, bungled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, coddled, commingled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dimpled, jangled, jostled, juggled, kindled, knuckled, ladled, leveled, levelled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enameled, encircled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, funneled, giggled, grappled, grizzled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, huddled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, manhandled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rankled, rattled, raveled, recycled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, subtitled, swindled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trickled, tripled, trundled, tussled, unbridled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-l" | |
-1 letter: baled, blade, fable. | |
-2 letters: abed, able, alef, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, bled, dale, deaf, deal, delf, fade, feal, flab, flea, fled, lade, lead, leaf. | |
-3 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bel, dab, dal, deb, del, eld, elf, fad, fed, lab, lad, lea, led. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-f-l" | |
+1 letter: baffled, fadable, flatbed. | |
+2 letters: befleaed, boldface, feedable, findable, flambeed, flatbeds, foldable, fordable. | |
+3 letters: backfield, batfowled, beflagged, boldfaced, boldfaces, broadleaf, buffaloed, definable, definably, draftable, outfabled. | |
+4 letters: affordable, backfields, backfilled, bufflehead, defeasible, defendable, deferrable, deformable, defrayable, fiddleback, formidable, modifiable, refundable, unfindable. | |
+5 letters: barefacedly, battlefield, buffleheads, deferrables, deflectable, fibrillated, fiddlebacks, indefinable, indefinably, infibulated, syllabified, undefinable. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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