Garbled

Definition: Garbled

Garbled

Adjective

1. Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts".

Date "garbled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonyms: Garbled

Synonyms: confused (adj), disconnected (adj), disjointed (adj), disordered (adj), illogical (adj), scattered (adj), unconnected (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Incompleteness	Mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.
Unintelligibility	Indefinite, garbled; (indistinct); perplexed; (confused); undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic, acroamatical; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Electronically garbled voice.		Garbled "I don't know".
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Speech is often sparse and garbled. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Garbled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Garbled" is used about 45 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)	77.78%	35	58,339
Lexical Verb (past participle)	15.56%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (past tense)	6.67%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Expression using "garbled": garbled message. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "garbled": half-garbled.
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.

Language		Translations for "garbled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		断� 取义 (garble, Garbling). (various references)

Czech		zkomolený (corrupt, truncate). (various references)

German		verstümmelte (maimed, mutilated), entstellte (defaced, deformed, disfigured). (various references)

Hebrew		מסולף (distorted, false, forged, perverted). (various references)

Hungarian		meghamisított számadás (garbled account), elrontott közlemény (garbled message). (various references)

Manx		neuchronnal (camouflaged, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indistinct, indistinguishable, sketchy, unclear, vague), mestit (churned, confused, confusing, cross-bred, jumbled, mashed, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, stirred). (various references)

Pig Latin		arbledgay.(various references)

Russian		искажать искаженный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izopačen (corrupted, deviant, perverse, perverted, reprobate). (various references)

Swedish		stympade. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Garbled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garaleden, garbeled, gerble, gorble, grailed, grarled, grobled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "garbled" (pronounced gÄ"rbuld)
6	-Ä" r b u l d	marbled.
5	-r b u l d	corbelled.
4	-b u l d	ambled, assembled, babbled, bubbled, cabled, cobbled, crumbled, dabbled, dibbled, disabled, disassembled, doubled, dribbled, enabled, enfeebled, fabled, fumbled, gambled, gobbled, grumbled, hobbled, humbled, jumbled, labeled, labelled, libeled, mislabeled, mumbled, nibbled, rambled, reassembled, redoubled, resembled, rumbled, scrambled, scribbled, squabbled, stumbled, tabled, trebled, trembled, troubled, tumbled, unlabeled, 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, 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, jangled, jostled, juggled, kindled, knuckled, ladled, leveled, levelled, 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-g-l-r"
	-1 letter: argled, badger, balder, barged, beglad, blared, gabled, garbed, garble, glared.
	-2 letters: abler, alder, ardeb, argle, badge, bagel, baled, baler, barde, bared, barge, beard, belga, blade, blare, blear, bread, debar, gable, glade, glare, gleba, grade, lader, lager, large, raged, regal.
	-3 letters: abed, able, aged, ager, bade, bald, bale, bard, bare, bead, bear, berg, blae, bled, brad, brae, brag, bred, dale, darb, dare, deal, dear, drab, drag, dreg, earl, egad, egal, gaed, gale, garb, gear, geld, glad, gled, grab, grad, lade, lard, lead, lear, rage, rale, read, real.
	-4 letters: age, alb, ale, arb, are, bad, bag, bal, bar, bed, beg, bel, bra, dab, dag, dal, deb, del, ear, eld, era, erg, gab, gad, gae, gal, gar, ged, gel, lab, lad, lag, lar, lea, led, leg, rad, rag, reb, red, reg.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ag, al, ar, ba, be, de, ed, el, er, la, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-l-r"
	+1 letter: badgerly, grabbled, gradable.
	+2 letters: bedraggle.
	+3 letters: bedraggled, bedraggles, beglamored, bridgeable, degradable, embrangled, upgradable.
	+4 letters: ballyragged, bedraggling, beglamoured, beleaguered, bullyragged, burglarized, gallbladder, upgradeable.
	+5 letters: battleground, bigheartedly, blackguarded, childbearing, deliberating, descrambling, diagrammable, disagreeable, disagreeably, fiberglassed, gallbladders, unbridgeable.
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