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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nonpareil is a noun and adjective meaning "model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal". It carries 4 recorded senses.
colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
eminent beyond or above comparison
“matchless beauty”
“the team's nonpareil center fielder”
“she's one girl in a million”
“the one and only Muhammad Ali”
“a peerless scholar”
“infamy unmatched in the Western world”
“wrote with unmatchable clarity”
“unrivaled mastery of her art”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonpareil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.