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Definition: Unmatchable |
UnmatchableAdjective1. Eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unmatchable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: UnmatchableSynonyms: matchless (adj), nonpareil (adj), one and only(a) (adj), one(a) (adj), peerless (adj), unmatched (adj), unrivaled (adj), unrivalled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unmatchable |
| English words defined with "unmatchable": matchless ♦ nonpareil ♦ one, one and only ♦ peerless ♦ unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled. (references) |
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| "Unmatchable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unmatchable" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unmatchable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несравним (disparate, incomparable, incompatible, inimitable, matchless, peerless, sublime, unparalleled, unprecedented, unsurpassable), недостижим (inaccessible, intangible, reachless, unattainable, unobtainable, untouchable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | unvergleichlich (incomparable, matchless, matchlessly, nonesuch, nonpar, peerless, peerlessly, unequaledly, unequalledly, unequally, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unrivalled, without comparison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchableunmay incomparable (incomparable, matchless, surpassing, unparalleled). (various references) không có gì sánh được, không có gì địch được, không ai sánh được, không ai địch được. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Unmatchable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbackable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-h-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ambulance, lunchmeat, matchable, unactable, untamable. | |
-3 letters: ambulant, ambulate, canulate, eulachan, hamulate, huntable, lacunate, maculate, tenacula. | |
-4 letters: abluent, actable, albumen, alumnae, balance, benthal, calumet, canthal, canulae, chaetal, chateau, clamant, clubman, clubmen, hatable, hematal, lactean, lacunae, lambent, maculae, manacle, manchet, manteau, mutable, namable, tableau, tamable, tunable, unlatch, unteach. | |
-5 letters: ablate, ablaut, acetal, acetum, actual, acuate, acumen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6D 61 74 63 68 61 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -- .- - -.-. .... .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n m a t c h a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006D 0061 0074 0063 0068 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580796786697467687871 |
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