Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tenth-rate

/tɛnθ ɹeɪt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables: ten-th-rate
IPA: /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of extremely poor quality, godawful.

Example Sentences

"I started off by saying that this is such a tenth-rate film that I don't believe that it would disturb anybody's faith."
"If there was a saying that said 'the devil has all the tunes that sound like a tenth-rate Justin Timberlake B-side, and he performs them in the style of a marionette puppet being operated by a heroin addict' then there might be a case."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/
British English: /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/

Inflected Forms

more tenth-rate (comparative) most tenth-rate (superlative)

Phrases

fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate sixth-rate third-rate

Frequently Paired Words

fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate sixth-rate third-rate

Synonyms

crummy cruddy drecky worthless trashy two-bit manky low-quality crappy shitty grody lousy

Questions

How do you pronounce tenth-rate?: The recorded pronunciation is /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/.
What does tenth-rate mean?: Of extremely poor quality, godawful.

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