excel
/ɪkˈsɛl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
Transitive verb
name
Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.
Example Sentences
- "I excelled everyone else with my exam results."
- "Compositions which follow the style of Nissi Belzer's creations in structure but which excel them in length."
- "La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you." Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy."
- "Everyone agreed Magnus really excelled himself this tournament."
- "But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels."
- "1924: Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 2.. If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kelH-, excellen, exceller, excello