About The Word “Adequate”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “adequate”, including spelling, parts of speech, “adequate” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “adequate”

Adequate is spelled a-d-e-q-u-a-t-e and has 8 letters.


How to pronounce “adequate”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈædɪkwət/

Phonetic pronunciation: AD-ih-kwut


How many vowels and consonants in “adequate”

The word “adequate” has 3 consonants and 5 vowels.


How many syllables in “adequate”?

There are 3 syllables in the word “adequate”.


What type of word is “adequate”?

The word "adequate" can be a adjective, determiner and verb.

Meaning of the word “adequate”

'Adequate' refers to something that is sufficient or satisfactory in fulfilling a particular requirement or meeting a specific need. It implies that the subject in question is enough in quantity or quality, but not necessarily exceptional or outstanding.
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Synonyms for “adequate”

Other words for “adequate” include sufficient, enough, ample, acceptable, satisfactory, suitable, commensurate, appropriate, fitting, proper.

Word families for “adequate”

Adequately, ininadequately

Common misspellings of “adequate”

Ahdequate

Similar words to “adequate”

Adequately, equate, equated, equates, inadequate, inadequately, deliquate

Scrambled words derived from “adequate”

Aedatqeu, teqdauea, aqadetue, audteqae, qeeadtua, auedetaq, ateeqadu, dueqaeta, aeadetqu, quadatee, eadqaeut, eataeudq, aedqaeut, qdeauaet, auqetade, daeetaqu, aqadeeut, daetqeau, udetaeaq, daqateeu, taaeueqd, eduaqtea, aaqteude, aaqtedeu, aeadeqtu

Crossword clues for “adequate”

Satisfactory date, unexpectedly equal (8).

Fun facts about the word “adequate”

The word “adequate” has a Scrabble score of 18 and reads etauqeda in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “adequate”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“adequate” spelled in Morse code

.- -.. . --.- ..- .- - . (dot dash dash dot dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dash dot dash dash dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “adequate”

Lowercase word: 97 100 101 113 117 97 116 101

Uppercase word: 65 68 69 81 85 65 84 69

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “adequate”

Lowercase word: 1100001 1100100 1100101 1110001 1110101 1100001 1110100 1100101

Uppercase word: 1000001 1000100 1000101 1010001 1010101 1000001 1010100 1000101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “adequate”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x61 0x64 0x65 0x71 0x75 0x61 0x74 0x65

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x41 0x44 0x45 0x51 0x55 0x41 0x54 0x45

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “adequate”

Lowercase: 97 100 101 113 117 97 116 101

Upprcase: 65 68 69 81 85 65 84 69

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “adequate”

Lowercase: 141 144 145 161 165 141 164 145

Upprcase: 101 104 105 121 125 101 124 105

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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