About The Word “Illegitimate”

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

How to spell “illegitimate”

Illegitimate is spelled i-l-l-e-g-i-t-i-m-a-t-e and has 12 letters.


How many vowels and consonants in “illegitimate”

The word “illegitimate” has 6 consonants and 6 vowels.


How many syllables in “illegitimate”?

There are 5 syllables in the word “illegitimate”.


What type of word is “illegitimate”?

The word "illegitimate" can be a adjective, noun and verb.
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Common misspellings of “illegitimate”

Allegitimate, ilegitimate

Similar words to “illegitimate”

Legitimate, legitimately, dislegitimate, legitimatised

Scrambled words derived from “illegitimate”

Eiielmiltagt, aeigemtitlil, emlttiagelii, tiieilgmaelt, lgaietitliem, eiialgtimetl, ttalieiemgil, eiilgilmetta, ilaiteitelgm, lgtlteaieimi, igaellimetti, giiemaeitllt, ilealmtigtei, alleiittegmi, tligeaitlime, ieamtiltglei, ieeilmtatgil, eglatileitmi, ltlamiiieteg, iieltaelmgti, iaeetlmgiitl, tiiagmeiltel, iieattgelilm, ltiailmgieet, iligtaetelim

Fun facts about the word “illegitimate”

The word “illegitimate” has a Scrabble score of 15 and reads etamitigelli in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “illegitimate”

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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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“illegitimate” spelled in Morse code

.. .-.. .-.. . --. .. - .. -- .- - . (dot dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dot dot dot dash dot dot dash 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 “illegitimate”

Lowercase: 105 108 108 101 103 105 116 105 109 97 116 101

Uppercase: 73 76 76 69 71 73 84 73 77 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 “illegitimate”

Lowercase: 1101001 1101100 1101100 1100101 1100111 1101001 1110100 1101001 1101101 1100001 1110100 1100101

Uppercase: 1001001 1001100 1001100 1000101 1000111 1001001 1010100 1001001 1001101 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 “illegitimate”

Lowercase: 0x69 0x6C 0x6C 0x65 0x67 0x69 0x74 0x69 0x6D 0x61 0x74 0x65

Uppercase: 0x49 0x4C 0x4C 0x45 0x47 0x49 0x54 0x49 0x4D 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 “illegitimate”

Lowercase: 105 108 108 101 103 105 116 105 109 97 116 101

Upprcase: 73 76 76 69 71 73 84 73 77 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 “illegitimate”

Lowercase: 151 154 154 145 147 151 164 151 155 141 164 145

Upprcase: 111 114 114 105 107 111 124 111 115 101 124 105

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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