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Well-matched

Date "well-matched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonym: Well-matched

Synonym: compatible (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Well-matched

Specialty definitions using "well-matched": Ox. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Well-matched

"Well-matched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-matched" is used about 8 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%8124,375

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

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Modern Translations: Well-matched

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

Chinese 

  

很好匹配. (various references)

   

French

  

assorti. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

似合い (becoming, suitable), 似合わしい (becoming, suitable), 好一対 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

にあい (becoming, suitable), にあわしい (becoming, suitable), こういっつい. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

잘 일치하는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

mie-chorrym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-matchedway

   

Russian 

  

подходящий (apposite, appropriate, appropriative, apt, assorted, congenial, congruous, convenient, correct, eligible, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fit, germane, in point, likely, opportune, pertinent, pointful, propitious, suitable, suited, well-becoming). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well), denk (balanced, bale, coequal, counterpoise, equal, equivalent, large package, match, matching), dengi dengine olan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Well-matched

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-l-l-m-t-w"

-3 letters: cellmate, chelated, metalled, wellhead.

-4 letters: cadelle, cheated, chelate, cleated, hellcat, latched, leached, letched, machete, matched, metaled, watched, welched, whelmed.

-5 letters: called, callet, calmed, camlet, cellae, celled, chalet, chawed, chelae, chewed, clawed, clewed, daleth, declaw, delate, detach, elated, etched, halted, hamlet, healed, heated, helled, helmed, helmet, lamedh, lathed, leched, lechwe, lethal, macled, malled, mallee.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Well-matched


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

57 65 6C 6C 2D 6D 61 74 63 68 65 64

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

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

01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 006D 0061 0074 0063 0068 0065 0064

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

577178781579678669747170

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