unmatchable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uniquely good; not approached by anything else in quality or excellence.
Example Sentences
- "An edge in a graph which has a perfect matching is an unmatchable edge if no perfect matching in the graph contains that edge."
- "Yes, the originals were fantastic, perhaps even unmatchable."
- "Both the matchables and the unmatchables direct us along new lines of inquiry. The matchables invite study of kinship, neighbouring, and property as advantageous ladders of social advancement, while the unmatchables invite inquiry into risk, its incidence, and the strategies young people were employing […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English match Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English matchable English unmatchable From un- + matchable.