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Date "well-favoured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: Well-favouredSynonyms: better-looking (adj), fine-looking (adj), good-looking (adj), handsome (adj), well-favored (adj). (additional references) |
| "Well-favoured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-favoured" 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 "well-favoured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, proper, sightly, well favored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored), красив (beauteous, beautiful, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, personable, well favored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 很好倾向 (Well-favored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jó megjelenésû (goodly, well favored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 잘 호의를 보이는 (Well-favored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ell-favouredway bem-apessoado (personable). (various references) frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-featured), chipeş (finely-shaped, good looking, handsome, personable, well favored, well-made), bine fãcut (bonny, clean, good, handsome, well favored). (various references) красивый (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dishy, fine, flavorful, gallant, good looking, good-looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, personable, pulchritudinous, sightly, well favored). (various references) povoljan (advantageous, auspicious, benignant, favorable, favourable, fortunate, trine, well appointed, well favored). (various references) med fördelaktigt utseende. (various references) yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, sightly, smart, stunner, well favored), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, winsome). (various references) привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, winning, winsome). (various references) xinh xắn (cute, dinky, prettily, pretty, well-looking), duyên dáng (airy, charming, comely, graceful, ingratiatingly, personable, smart, well-looking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-r-u-v-w" | |
-3 letters: flavoured, overalled, woefuller. | |
-4 letters: aureoled, awfuller, deflower, falderol, fallowed, farewell, favoured, fellowed, flavored, flowered, freeload, fullered, laureled, louvered, overawed, overflew, overfull, overlade, overleaf, overlewd, ravelled, reavowed, reflowed, revalued, rowelled, welldoer. | |
-5 letters: allover, allowed, allured, aureole, dareful, devalue, dewfall, doleful, dueller, dweller, favored, federal, ferulae, feruled, flavour, floured, foulard, fuelled, fueller, leeward, louvred, lowered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 6C 2D 66 61 76 6F 75 72 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e l l - f a v o u r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 0066 0061 0076 006F 0075 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57717878157267888187847170 |
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