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Definition: Letter-perfect |
Letter-perfectAdjective1. 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-perfectSynonym: word-perfect (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Letter-perfect |
| English words defined with "letter-perfect": word-perfect. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 stãpân pe rol. (various references) совершенно точный, твердо знающий свою роль. (various references) ที่ถูกต้องทุกตัวอักษร. (various references) su gibi ezberlemiş, harfi harfine aynı, aslına uygun (literal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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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)
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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)L e t t e r - p e r f e c t |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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