matchless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength."
- "It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent."
- "In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her."
- "a matchless stove"
Etymology
From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more matchless (comparative)
most matchless (superlative)