Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ill-assorted

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.26 in modern English

Syllables: il-l-as-sort-ed
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Badly matched, or unmatched.

Example Sentences

"He and Mrs Jonathan were a remarkable pair; one of those ill-assorted couples that you wonder at."
"Last Christmas Eve the "Pines Express" arrived at Bath behind an ill-assorted combination of locomotives."

Inflected Forms

more ill-assorted (comparative) most ill-assorted (superlative)

Questions

What does ill-assorted mean?: Badly matched, or unmatched.

How to pronounce ill-assorted

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