Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Letter-perfect

Definition: Letter-perfect

Letter-perfect

Adjective

1. Correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words; "a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy "she was word-perfect in her part".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "letter-perfect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

Synonym: Letter-perfect

Synonym: word-perfect (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Letter-perfect

English words defined with "letter-perfect": word-perfect. (references)

Top     

Commercial Usage: Letter-perfect

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Word Circus: A Letter-Perfect Book (Lighter Side of Language Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Letter-perfect

"Letter-perfect" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Letter-perfect" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Letter-perfect

Language Translations for "letter-perfect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i saktë deri në imtësi. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

信件完善. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

서 완 한. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etter-perfectlay

   

Romanian

  

stãpân pe rol. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

совершенно точный, твердо знающий свою роль. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ที่ถูกต้องทุกตัวอักษร. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

su gibi ezberlemiş, harfi harfine aynı, aslına uygun (literal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Letter-perfect

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-f-l-p-r-r-t-t-t"

-4 letters: perfecter.

-5 letters: electret, fetterer, letterer, preelect, preerect, reletter, tercelet.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Letter-perfect


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 74 74 65 72 2D 70 65 72 66 65 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#45 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#102 &#101 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072 002D 0070 0065 0072 0066 0065 0063 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4671868671841582718472716986

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.