Ill-formed

Definition: Ill-formed

Ill-formed

Adjective

1. Not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage.

Date "ill-formed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Ill-formed

Synonym: ungrammatical (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: grammatical (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Writing	Cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble; Verb: pattes de mouche; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ill-formed

English words defined with "ill-formed": Deer-neck. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ill-formed": Naked ♦ pragmatic overshoot. (references)

"Ill-formed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-formed" is used about 21 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%	21	76,261

Language		Translations for "ill-formed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ill-formeday.(various references)

Romanian		inform (amorphous, formless, inform, shapeless, unshapely). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-l-m-o-r"
	-2 letters: deiform, frilled, moldier.
	-3 letters: deform, dormie, filled, filler, filmed, filmer, firmed, florid, foiled, folder, formed, meloid, milder, milled, miller, milord, moiled, moiler, molder, mollie, refill, refilm, refold, remold, rifled, rilled, roiled, rolfed, rolled.
	-4 letters: dimer, drill, droll, felid, fermi, field, filed, filer, fille, fillo, fiord, fired, flied, flier, forme, fremd, fried, frill, idler, iller, lifer, limed, miler, mille, mired, model, moire, morel, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, oriel, reoil, rifle, riled, rille, rimed.
	-5 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, dell, demo, derm, diel, dill, dime, diol, dire, dirl, doer, dole, doll, dome, dore, dorm, emir, fell, feod, fido, file, fill, film, filo, fire, firm, fled, floe, foil, fold, ford, fore, form, froe, from, idem, idle, idol, ired, lido, lied, lief, lier, life, lime, limo, lire, lode, lord, lore, meld, mell, merl, mild, mile, mill, milo, mire, mode, modi, moil, mold, mole, moll, more, omer, orle, redo, reif, ride, riel, rife, rile, rill, rime, rode, roil, role, rolf, roll.
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