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Well-heeled


Synonyms: Well-heeled

Synonyms: comfortable (adj), easy (adj), prosperous (adj), well-fixed (adj), well-off (adj), well-situated (adj), well-to-do (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Well-heeled

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Books

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Well-heeled

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Economic History

Azerbaijan

Well-heeled Azeri shoppers are known for their impatience and desire to buy immediately and in cash rather than wait weeks for shipments from warehouses in nearby countries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Well-heeled

"Well-heeled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-heeled" is used about 53 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%5346,657

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

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Modern Translations: Well-heeled

Language Translations for "well-heeled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

ευπορώ (be wealthy, be well off, be well-heeled). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

잘 뒤축을 대는. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-heeledway

   

Russian 

  

богатый (affluent, crummy, in the money, moneyed, opulent, pregnant, pursy, rich, wealthy, well heeled). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Well-heeled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-h-l-l-l-w"

-3 letters: wheedle, wheeled.

-4 letters: heeled, helled, welled.

-5 letters: dwell, hewed, wedel, wheel.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Well-heeled


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

57 65 6C 6C 2D 68 65 65 6C 65 64

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

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

01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100101 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#104 &#101 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 0068 0065 0065 006C 0065 0064

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

5771787815747171787170

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Bibliographic Items: "well-heeled"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "well-heeled"

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